KARACHI: A senior official of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed on Wednesday that the Board was seriously working on a plan to launch its own sports channel with the assistance and cooperation of other sports federations and the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB).
“Yes, we’ve written to other federations and the PSB on this proposal and we’ve got favourable responses. Even the Pakistan Television Corporation has not objected to this proposal which we feel is feasible,” PCB Director Operations Abbas Zaidi told a news conference at the National Stadium here.
He said one option available to the PCB and its partners was that they bought time on one of the PTV channels to run their sports channel. “The other is that we start our own channel independently,” he added.
“We can’t simply run the channel on cricket feed and programmes alone. We are planning to give exposure to all other sports on the proposed channel and involve all the federations and the PSB and Pakistan Olympic Council in it as partners,” he stated.
Zaidi said the need to have PCB’s own channel was prompted by the need to give regular exposure to domestic cricket, which had a big market for sponsors and advertisers.
“However it’s a big project with huge expenses involved in it. We need to work out all the modalities and a feasibility report; we need to involve experts and see how many people have to be involved in running such a project,” Zaidi noted and added, “But obviously the PCB will play a lead role given it’s the leading sports body in the country.”
as usual we have to do wat the indians do
they said they wanted to have a sports channel now we do
not that its a bad idea but come on cant we be original please?
fkhan2 we have already read this on cricinfo. Stop wasting your time and everyone elses time by copy pasting everything off there. Go fetch some news that we dont know about. Go boy go.
So Sheryar Khan, not content with rewarding his cronies/ex-collegues as well as taking one overseas trip after another.....present at every overseas series, whether its his business or not......now he wants to run another racket by starting this station so that he can either funnel the money or reward some other people close to him...
Probably the only reason why PCB is taking the lead on this is because cricket is abnormaly popular in Pakistan. However on its merit, there is no harm in having an ESPN like full time sports network dedicated entirely to Pakistani sports. Its a great idea, and considering all kinds of tv channels springing up in Pakistan these days, if executed properly, this one will be fairly successful too.
What they gonna show on the sports tv 24/7 when there is no cricket? Don’t the people in Pakistan already get their dose of International sports from other sports network?
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