A legislator yesterday said that the Public Television Service (PTS) channel should work toward broadcasting more sports programs featuring Taiwanese players to fulfill the service's social responsibility and encourage local talent.
Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Huang Wei-cher (黃偉哲) said yesterday during a press conference at the Legislative Yuan that the public television channel started broadcasting baseball games featuring New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming (王建民) last April, a move that has gone down well.
On average more than 210,000 people nationwide watched the games on PTS last year, Huang said.
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However, Huang said that the channel only broadcast Yankees' games but there were other famous Taiwanese players abroad, such as US minor league baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Kuo Hong-chih (
In addition there are many notable local table-tennis, tennis, and basketball players but their games were broadcasted infrequently Huang said.
He said that PTS' budgets was very tight, at only NT$900 million (US$27.8 million) per year, and that the fees for broadcasting Wang's games alone came to US$500,000 last year and US$600,000 this year.
Huang urged PTS to discuss budgets and cooperate with the National Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (
PTS news department director Grace Tu (
This was only the second year that PTS had broadcast sports but it hoped to continue doing so, Tu said.
Chien Tzu-hsiang (
Soccer, for example, appeared only once every four years, Chien said.
More games should be shown on television to encourage local players as well as international ones, he said.
A die-hard Taiwanese baseball fan surnamed Liu said at the conference that she could only catch Wang's games on TV in Taiwan and not Kuo's or Tsao's, and so was forced to rely exclusively on newspapers for information about them.
She expressed a hope that more sports games could be shown on PTS or other channels.
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