Eurohockey Club Cup Winners Cup , Bowdon , 2009. TV Coverage to air and online !
Channel M (TV) is Manchester's only dedicated local TV channel , innovative , creative , ethical, and with a totally fresh approach to television and an inherent social responsibility, and a refreshing altruism that seeks, amongst other goals, to promote those local sports largely totally ignored by big budget terrestrial channels who have their focus on the purse, ratings and , it seems to me , little else. The sport of field hockey has never attracted the media attention it deserves despite being second only to football in terms of active participants nationally and yet I recall Channel M covering a local league game , at Brooklands , with their cameraman freezing to death on top of a container as makeshift platform a short while back, and turning out an excellent programme , with an equal mix of quality video and intelligent interviews with coaches and players as the game should be represented and showing the way forward as to how this game could attain the prominence it should be afforded.
Despite the fact that mainstream media focused , in the main , on events in Hamburg for a men's event the same weekend of April 10th onwards , Channel M invested their time and effort in the top end of the women's game at the highest level , in covering events at South Down Road.
UPDATE: Coverage of the Cup can be viewed on line now. Follow this link
THE BROADCAST SCHEDULE
Coverage will appear on Channel M ,Tuesday
evening , April 28th on their "Sports Central" programme at 7pm and 1am
Repeats will then be as follows:
Wednesday at 10am, 7.30pm & 11.30
Thursday 10.00am and 11.30pm
Friday 11.30am
Sat Dec 10.30am and 6pm
Sunday Dec 9:30am
See this link :-
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1213958576/bctid3856267001
You can watch Channel M on
SKY 203
NTL 878
Online at
http://www.channelm.co.uk/sport/ also
Huge thanks for Channel M , and producer Claire Dixon for focussing on this event and helping to promote the game.
Tune in and enjoy!
John