{"id":224092,"date":"2019-07-24T07:45:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224092"},"modified":"2019-07-24T07:45:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T11:45:19","slug":"11-of-56-sports-confirmed-to-be-televised-during-30th-sea-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/24\/11-of-56-sports-confirmed-to-be-televised-during-30th-sea-games\/","title":{"rendered":"11 of 56 sports confirmed to be televised during 30th SEA Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224093\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224093\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Countdown-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-224093 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Countdown-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Countdown-3.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Countdown-3-768x540.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;We\u2019re trying to focus only on 11 live sports that are really popular not only in the Philippines but regional sports too.&#8221; &#8211; PHISGOC Chief Operation Officer Ramon Suzara (File <a href=\"https:\/\/2019seagames.com\/img\/gallery\/events\/Countdown-3.jpg\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/2019seagames.com\/countdown-gallery.html\">SEAGames PH 2019<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/2019seagames.com\">Official Website<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC) conducted a Broadcast and Media Conference last Tuesday, July 23 at Sofitel Philippine Plaza, the foundation confirmed that the country\u2019s most popular sports will be available for viewing to the public on two of the country\u2019s largest networks during the 30th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games happening this November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to PHISGOC, besides the opening and closing ceremonies, ESPN5 and ABS-CBN will also be broadcasting both 5&#215;5 and 3&#215;3 basketball, as well as indoor volleyball.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PHISGOC Chief Operation Officer Ramon Suzara explained, \u201cWe\u2019re trying to focus only on 11 live sports that are really popular not only in the Philippines but regional sports too like badminton and sepak takraw and football.\u201d Football, swimming, diving, athletics, badminton, boxing, gymnastics, sepak takraw, taekwondo, and E-sports are also being featured. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suzara added, \u201cAgain these are only 11 live sports that will be divided to local TV networks. The other sports will be highlights. Again as I mentioned earlier today, there\u2019s cost in every sport that you want to do live, there\u2019s an additional cost. Everybody knows that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Basketball will run from December 1 to 10, while volleyball matches are scheduled from November 28 to December 10.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, the host country\u2019s president Rodrigo Duterte was outspoken about the desire to eliminate PHISGOC from organizing the international biennial event to avoid corruption, opting to hand responsibilities to the government. Yet, Suzara also addressed the statements, telling the press, \u201cI think the negative publicity doesn\u2019t help organizing the Games. I appeal to all the media practitioners to support. We\u2019re trying to raise the SEA Games level to the Asian Games level. We want to educate the public that this is the new SEA Games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Philippine Southeast Asian Games Organizing Committee (PHISGOC) conducted a Broadcast and Media Conference last Tuesday, July 23 at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":224093,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-gianna-llanes","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224092"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224237,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224092\/revisions\/224237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}