got a reply from eurosport!

[Faisal]

Ok Guys, I was kind of upset that eurosport doesn't show anything on badminton and so I decided to email them and asked them to show the Dutch Open, and here is what I got from them...



"Dear Mr. Qureshi,

Thank you for showing your interest in Eurosport! I send you this reaction quite late due to fact that I was on vacation, my apologize. Concerning to your badminton questions I send you this mail. Although we want to broadcast all kind of sports, we have to make a selection. Eurosport is broadcasting in 54 countries at the same time and we have to show consideration with all kind of sports. Another thing is that we didn't obtain the television rights to the Dutch Open Live. So, there are no plans at the moment to show more of badminton in september. I've send you the programme of december. And if we are going to broadcast more badminton, you should check the most reliable guide for Eurosports' programming the web-site. I recommend using either www.eurosport.com, or perhaps even better: www.eurosport-tv.com (when entering this web-site use guest as a username and password). These web-sites are updated daily so they should be relatively accurate with their times and program listings. I hope this sufficiently answers your question! I'm sorry for everything, but I hope you still enjoy watching our channel!"

Kind Regards,

Janneke Poerink


03/12/2003 Wed
15:30
16:30 BADMINTON LIVE
16:30
18:00 BADMINTON LIVE
04/12/2003 Thu
15:30
16:30 BADMINTON LIVE
16:30
18:00 BADMINTON LIVE
05/12/2003 Fri
13:45
15:00 BADMINTON LIVE
16:30
17:45 BADMINTON LIVE
07/12/2003 Sun
16:30
17:30 BADMINTON LIVE

Isn't this just GREAT! They are actually gonna show something! But do you guys know what is taking place in December? and I was thinking that if some of you also could send some requests to Eurpsport for showing badminton, becauase I believe it will make a difference to alot of the european countries who hardly ever have live coverge for badminton...You can get the email address for your country from their site i.e. www.eurosport.com

Thanks...

[bigredlemon]

great job... we should send more emails to let them know that there *is* a market for badminton shows.

[ttktom]

i've just e-mailed them telling them about it

[Faisal]

Very nice ttktom! Convince your other badminton friends to do the same...:)

[UkPlayer]

Originally posted by bigredlemon
great job... we should send more emails to let them know that there *is* a market for badminton shows.

I completely agree.

[Faisal]

The tournemnt that they are going to show is the "Saarbruck Open" in Germany. However, the timmings that the provided to me on the above email are wrong. Here are the timmings from their website:

3/12:

- 15:15
- 16:30

4/12

- 15:15
- 16:30

5/12

- 13:45
- 16:30

AND ITS GONNA BE LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bye the way, after watching PLEASE send them a thanks email, that way they will know that people do actyally watch badminton and that there is a market for it. Thanks & don't forget to watch it!!!!!

[Dill]

Oh good, more badminton on TV when most people are out at work. FANTASTIC

[Faisal]

also on 7/12

- 16:45

[Faisal]

Originally posted by Dill
Oh good, more badminton on TV when most people are out at work. FANTASTIC

Dill, It's also gonna be telecasted in the morning, but ofcourse it's not gonna be live...still maybe you can watch it!

Repeat telecast on 4th and 5th of dec...at 8:30 am (i guess u again will have to leave for work?:(

[Cheung]

Good work, Faisal.

[Bbn]

Sport England has announced in B A of E site that badminton will be

one of 10 sports incl football, tennis, cricket ,rugby to receive priority funding.

Looks like all the griping in the forums is working and pointed in the right direction-

funding.

We may see in the next few years revival of badminton in England to rival that of ,

say Malaysia or denmark.

[seven]

There will also be live streaming on their official web site : http://www.bitburger-open.de/en/index2.html
(Video Stream part)

It seems like they have made great promotion efforts for this Open!