Dear All,

I am new to your forum. I am trying to produce a television show about badminton for the US market. I an avid player in the LA area and am having a bit of trouble with the IBF, the IEC and licensing footage of badminton matches around the world for the show.

I need to contact individual countries badminton associations to see if I can have access to athletes in each country.

It has been very difficult communicating with the Asian world. Do you know anyone who is able to email the Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai badminton associations?

Thank you,
Ann Marie

some one help this guy out, a badminton tv show would be awesome!

i cant help you any but if i could i would

Dear All,

I am new to your forum. I am trying to produce a television show about badminton for the US market. I an avid player in the LA area and am having a bit of trouble with the IBF, the IEC and licensing footage of badminton matches around the world for the show.

I need to contact individual countries badminton associations to see if I can have access to athletes in each country.

It has been very difficult communicating with the Asian world. Do you know anyone who is able to email the Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai badminton associations?

Thank you,
Ann Marie
Ann Marie,
re your inquiry, please see this link for all the BWF's(no more IBF) list of members. It is also BWF's official website:
http://www.internationalbadminton.org/members.asp
(the infos should be up-to-date)...good luck!-;):cool:

Dear All,

I am new to your forum. I am trying to produce a television show about badminton for the US market. I an avid player in the LA area and am having a bit of trouble with the IBF, the IEC and licensing footage of badminton matches around the world for the show.

I need to contact individual countries badminton associations to see if I can have access to athletes in each country.

It has been very difficult communicating with the Asian world. Do you know anyone who is able to email the Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai badminton associations?

Thank you,
Ann Marie
i think old archive films are equally as hard to obtain due to red tapes. I think Bbn can elaborate more on this.

Buying footage is never a problem, go to

TWI archive.com or ITN.com these people sell footage to TV cos.

As for dealing with BWF I think Sally knows who's who.

Dear All,

I am new to your forum. I am trying to produce a television show about badminton for the US market. I an avid player in the LA area and am having a bit of trouble with the IBF, the IEC and licensing footage of badminton matches around the world for the show.

I need to contact individual countries badminton associations to see if I can have access to athletes in each country.

It has been very difficult communicating with the Asian world. Do you know anyone who is able to email the Chinese, Malaysian, Indonesian and Thai badminton associations?

Thank you,
Ann MarieIEC is the company that produces the show "World of Badminton", isn't it? As they have only this year begun to make what may be the first ever English-language TV show about badminton, it doesn't surprise me that they are reluctant to share secrets with those who might become their competition. I mean, they seem to have been buying the rights to show clips from CCTV and Super Sports and possibly ESPN to make their show. Also, only a few of us here have seen the show through advertising-supported channels. I am among that number but I have to watch it with the original English dubbed over by SBS using Korean voice actors who use almost caricature voices. That's how hard a time they seem to be having marketing their show.

This article (http://www.iec.se/default.aspx?m=4) about IEC being awarded Super Series rights seems like a turnaround. Now, I'm guessing if Super Sports wants to air the Korea Open, they will have to pay IEC for the rights instead of dealing with MBC directly or MBC through the IBF. I'm not entirely clear on that. I'm only guessing.

On the other hand, to make "World of Badminton", I don't believe IEC is using any of its own footage except for maybe the interviews so whatever they're going through to get ESPN or Super Sports footage, you could, too. I don't know that the copyright is owned by the local association. I would think it would be held by the local TV network that brought the cameras in. In the recent Korea Open, the tournament organizers had to wait for the broadcasting company, SBS, to make up its mind about marketable matchups before the match order was decided. In the past, MBC has been among the tournament's official sponsors as well as being the exclusive broadcaster. So, I'm thinking contacting the broadcasting company might be the way to go. These days, in Korea, SBS seems to be taking over. They've not only handled the Korea Open, they've also been showing taped broadcasts of other international events such as the Indonesia Open, Singapore Open, Thailand Open and World Championships. On top of that, they are the customer of IEC, showing that company's product, "World of Badminton" twice a week, once at prime sports time on Sunday afternoon. You can check out the only part of their website that is in English, here (http://sbspr.sbs.co.kr/intro/intro09_index.jsp). On that page there is an email address for the webmaster (webmaster@sbs.co.kr) and their customer page (http://cs.sbs.co.kr/customer_main.jsp) (in Korean) has a phone number for purchase of program videos, (82)2-2113-6888. That network has a TV show that is set in LA and hence uses a constant string of extras who don't speak Korean. I'm sure if there is money in it for them, they'll find someone to communicate with you in English.

The other thing is that the language of business in both Super Sports and ESPN must be English so at least their footage should be accessible from a language standpoint.

Out of curiosity, how would the program you have in mind differ from IEC's "World of Badminton"? You can ignore the question if it involves divulging your marketable angle, of course. I'm just wondering what aspects, in addition to the language, you see as potentially helping a show be more marketable in the U.S.

Anyway, PM me if you think help from someone like me in a place like Korea might be more advantageous than trying to communicate directly across an ocean and a possible language barrier.

I need to contact individual countries badminton associations to see if I can have access to athletes in each country.
What kind of access to athletes are you hoping for? Are you going to fly over and film interviews with them? I mean if you had caught them all in Anaheim last year, access would probably have been automatic. To get regular interviews, the trick is finding the athletes. At any Asian tournament, that should be just a matter of getting press acreditation and flying over then finding the players at the event venue. To find them outside of tournaments, do you not need to have someone on the ground in each of those countries? Either that or you have to fly over and visit the training centres. The former option is the one currently being pursued by Badzine International (http://www.badzine.info). The latter sounds very expensive. IEC may be doing it now. They have had footage from training centres in Denmark, Malaysia, and China on their shows. I rather suspect that they must have taken a film crew to the Macau Open and to China and maybe to Malaysia's training centre on the same pass as either the ABC or the Malaysian Open. I don't know for sure.
It's funny that we have a national team coach, a recent World Champion, an IBF reporter, and even live scoring software developers on this forum but no one from the organizations that make the sport's only print magazines and TV shows.

Have you tried contacting Denmark? If you goto Peter Gade's website and email him I'm sure he would do everything in his power to help you out.