IBC wants 1-hour newscast after first game and before second game of PBA games

August 3, 2013

Viva Sports has proposed the live coverage of the PBA matches on IBC-13 beginning at 4:30 p.m., with a one-hour newscast at 6:30 p.m. before the 7:30 p.m. airing of the second game.

PBA chairman Robert Non has called for a special board meeting on Thursday after the league received the latest broadcast proposal from Viva Sports with the standards set by the league board. The Kapinoy Network will commitment to be action in sports programming of PBA, NBA, boxing matches and ONE FC.

The PBA board had given Viva Sports the airing all games live on IBC-13 under the new schedule of airing live coverages of the matches on The Kapinoy Network beginning at 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. for the first game, with a one-hour flagship newscast Express Balita at 6:30 p.m. before the 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. for the second game.

The Kapinoy Network airs its hour-long flagship primetime newscast Express Balita at 6:30 p.m. will dominate of rivals TV Patrol and 24 Oras, although Viva-IBC officials.

Spin.ph also learned from insiders that Viva Sports officials tinkered with the option of giving up the PBA coverage and paying the P70 million pesos agreed upon under P900 million, multi-year contract signed with the league in 2011.