Let me apologize to all the people at the TV stations who are not to blame for this, but really improvement is needed -
I would take all TV schedules for the AZKALS with a grain of salt, ie be very suspicious of published TV schedules for these sporting events. The HKG match today was scheduled to be aired on BALLS and S23 at 430PM. I arranged my work schedule at some cost to be home in time with my boys to watch. Hurried home from a meeting in Makati, turned on the TV and... no Azkals. Eventually, at 530PM I learned the match was delayed to 8PM. So, I stayed home instead of going to a colleague's despidida, ONLY TO LEARN THE MATCH COVERAGE IS NOW MOVED TO THE NEXT DAY. This is really a bad situation compounded by not even a word from the stations as to the cause of the problem. No apology for people like myself who went to the trouble to re-arrange their schedules, no explanation, just two unexplained changes when we had set aside time to do this together as a family.
It is likely some technical issue beyond anyone's control has caused this problem, and the TV station may not even to be blamed! However, it would have at least been better to have had some explanation from the station about the delays / rescheduling. I feel the stations now look very poor having not explained - I don't know now if I should EVER trust their scheduling. I certainly won't ever go to the trouble to re-arrange my work schedule.
Quite sad, really.
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