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Berbicians cannot see the Olympics on television
DEAR EDITOR,
Berbicians have been closed out from the thrill and action of the Summer Olympic Games this year in Beijing, China.
In a rather unfortunate development, Channel Seven in Georgetown has been given sole rights by the Caribbean Media Corporation to broadcast the games from the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the U.S. network with sole rights to broadcast the Summer and Winter Olympic Games every time they’re played.
Channel Seven is not seen in Berbice.
This is one of the very first times in quite a while — maybe even the first — that Berbicians cannot view the Olympics in their homes.
With the clamping down on pirating of American television electronic signals, it is now quite difficult and nearly impossible to bring coverage of an event on U.S. television for free and without them knowing that you are transmitting from their feed.
All cable and satellite networks’ broadcasts via satellite from the U.S. will start sending out digital signals from February next year, and that will spell trouble for many TV operatives here, who depend on the U.S. satellite feeds for a large chunk of their programming.
Of course, during the last Olympics, TV stations across Guyana could have transmitted the games from NBC and other affiliates, including the ones in Canada, without much financial consequences.
Not so this time. Of course, with all this, there is an alternative to keep on track with the games, but even the Internet at times has its limitations and problems.
Maybe a TV station which is seen nationally could have been given the rights. I don’t know if this could have been possible.
However, I would urge the newspapers to dedicate more of their sports coverage to the games at this time.
‘Georgetowners’ should be thankful that they’re enjoying the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing right in their homes. God knows that the popular saying that Georgetown is Guyana is given ever more emphasis in this context.
Leon Jameson Suseran
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