Saturday, July 19, 2008

Channel U To Be Turned Into Sports Channel For Once !

18 July 2008

Mediacorp Chinese Entertainment Channel - Channel U will officially be turned into a sports Channel come August when the Beijing Olympics kicks off next month , starting from 8 August 2008 !

Channel U
which brings to it's Chinese community viewers Drama Serials , Entertainment and Variety Shows will for once be transformed into a sporting Channel to offer to it's viewers more choices to watch LIVE Beijing Olympics Action , besides Channel 5 and it's High Denifition Channel - HD 5 which will also offer LIVE Olympics Action !

Although these three Channels will all be bringing u LIVE Olympics Action , the contents are likely to be different from one Channel to another . Channel U hopes to give it's viewers a different Olympics experience by bringing the Games to u in Mandrain . This is Singapore's First & possibly only Channel to be bringing the Games to it's viewers all in Chinese in it's original taste !


Channel U coverage of the Olympics Games will begin from 3pm on to 5pm on weekdays and will continue it's coverage again from 12am to 2am . On top of that , the Channel will also offer full day's Olympics coverage on weekends from 10am onwards all the way to 2am ( except on news timeslots at 7pm & 11pm ) .

For non - Chinese speaking families , Singaporean viewers can tune in to Channel 5 and it's High Definition Channel coverage of the Games . The contents from Channel 5 and HD 5 will be different .


*Mediacorp Beijing Olympics Telecast Schedule :


http://www.mediacorptv.sg/en/buzzdetail/EDC080716-0000001


http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/360949/1/.html


* For more Beijing Olympics related news , click on the following link to find out more :

http://beijing-sports.blogspot.com/


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