Streak Shooter

THE National Football League will finally have a Philippine TV carrier this season. A day ago, TV5 announced in its social media sites that it will air one NFL game every Monday, Tuesday and Friday live at 8 am with replays over its sister cable channel Hyper for Cignal subscribers. NFL games have been irregularly televised in the Philippines because obviously, many Pinoys don't understand the rules of American football. Previously, ABS-CBN tried airing the NFL on its defunct Studio 23 but the games didn't catch on with many viewers. And now, TV5 is gambling on the NFL as it tries to keep pace with ABS-CBN's Sports+Action 23 which airs the NBA, UAAP and NCAA games. Under TV5's schedule, the following NFL games will be televised: Monday mornings (Sunday Night Football on NBC) Tuesday mornings (Monday Night Football on ESPN) Friday mornings (Thursday Night Football on NFL Network) The Sunday morning, US time, games will not be televised on TV5 since the

STARTING this week, DZSR Sports Radio underwent a massive makeover. The government-run radio network Philippine Broadcasting Service (PBS) merged DZSR with DZRM Radyo Magasin to produce a new station, Radyo Pilipinas 2 on SR's old 918 khz frequency while shutting down the old 1278 frequency of DZRM. A Facebook friend of mine sent me the new schedule of Radyo Pilipinas 2: 6am: Radyo Tabloid w/ Ed Satira 7am: RP News Nationwide (RP1 Simulcast) 8am: Sports 918 w/ Dennis Principe & Ria Arevalo 10am: Home EcoNanay w/ Marinela 11am: Game On: Isyu at Balita w/ Judith Caringal 12nn: RP News Nationwide (RP1 Simulcast) 1pm: Buzz Magazine w/ Rene Garcia 3pm: Sports Roundup 4pm: Isport Lang with Cecille Quimlat and Peter Lucas 5pm: Kilos Pronto (PTV Simulcast) 6pm: Talk NBA w/ JP Manosa 8pm: Post Game w/ John Mogol 9pm: PCSO Lotto 9:20pm: Music 10:00pm: Sign Off Under this new schedule, RP2 is 70 per cent sports and 30 per cent news and information but as a long-time follower of