Speaking from my experience in Kazakhstan, their cable TV shows tennis and football... er... soccer matches from other networks with Russian announcers providing commentary (though probably not direct translations of what the English speaking commentators were saying). As you witnessed, multiple network bugs one on top of another.
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 7:30 PM, PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I just returned (last night) from about 9 days in Quito, Ecuador on a > business trip. I was pretty busy most of the time, but I did get to flip > through the TV a bit, mostly watching MLB playoffs and NFL games. I noticed > that they apparently really love Comedy Central in general and South Park > in particular down there. They seemed to be airing significant local > content - stand-up acts performing in spanish (may not have been Ecuador of > course, but I am pretty sure it was somewhere in South America, and not > Mexico). > > But what surprised me was that events like Sunday Night Football were > shown on an ESPN channel (they were numbered, but I don't think in a system > that was based on ESPN2 in the US). The SNF game I watched was clearly the > NBC feed, I could see Al and Chris, and NBC bugs all over, but dubbed over > with spanish announcers, and an occasional ESPN bug. I think something > similar was going on with the MLB playoffs, though it is a little more > confusing to figure out which channel those games were being shown on in > the US. > > I wonder if anyone here knows if this is typical outside the US - the > sporting events shown in the US on one network are shown on other networks? > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
