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The Philippine Basketball League has a new television
broadcast partner beginning in the 2007 Unity Cup which gets going
on Tuesday, April 17 at the Olivarez College Sports Center in Sucat,
Parañaque.
The PBL, the nation’s premiere
non-professional basketball circuit in its 24th year of being the
home of the finest young basketeers in the country, recently linked
an exclusive deal with Basketball TV, the 24-hour cable hoops
channel of Solar Entertainment Corp., to bring its uniquely exciting
games to hardcourt fans everywhere.
The games of the PBL will be seen
on BTV (Sky/Home Channel 34 in Metro Manila) every Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., and on Sundays
from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., right before the primetime replay of the
very popular NBA games.
Solar has very big plans for the
PBL, which marks the cable giant’s first foray into covering a
local league for several months out of the year but they are up to
it.
“We have very capable people
all around and with our years of experience doing specials like the
Manny Pacquiao fights and the Collegiate Champions’ League, we are
ready to take the plunge,” remarked Solar’s Chief Executive
Officer Peter Chanliong.
the addition of a free-to-air
television component to enable even more fans to catch the hot
action at their convenience.
Basketball TV also intends to
“loop” the games in the morning hours of its programming grid to
enable those who failed to catch the primetime airing to still enjoy
the PBL action fairly recently.
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