New Kurdish ball for state TV broadcast pitch
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Doğan News Agency
Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mayıs 26, 2009 00:00
DİYARBAKIR -The chairman of Diyarbakır’s top football team said his club has applied to have their matches broadcast in Kurdish.
Diyarbakırspor Chairman Abdurrahman Yakut said the club had applied to the general directorate of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, or TRT, to have their matches shown next season in Kurdish on the TRT’s Kurdish language channel, TRT-6.
"TRT-6 already shows match highlights, so why not all of it," said Yakut.
Diyarbakırspor has earned promotion to Turkey’s top flight and the team will ply its trade in the Turkcell Super League next season. TRT-6 shows a highlights package of the Turkcell Super League at the moment, allocating three minutes to each match. Diyarbakırspor wants the entire 90 minutes of its games to be broadcast on the Kurdish-language channel.
"I have appeared on TRT-6 as the chairman of Diyarbakırspor and spoken in Kurdish. TRT-6 has no problem with this request. However, legal impediments might exist about the channel’s right to broadcast an entire match," said Yakut. He said there was a lot of demand for games to be broadcast in Kurdish from the club’s supporters and said that viewer numbers of TRT-6 would increase dramatically if this were implemented.
"There is a lot of potential to increase the number of viewers in the region if sports broadcasts are implemented. We will put this forward to TRT’s general directorate. If they are interested in increasing the number of their viewers they will take action," said Yakut.
"We want reruns of our team’s games to be broadcast on certain days," he said.
"TRT-6 already shows match highlights, so why not all of it," said Yakut.
Diyarbakırspor has earned promotion to Turkey’s top flight and the team will ply its trade in the Turkcell Super League next season. TRT-6 shows a highlights package of the Turkcell Super League at the moment, allocating three minutes to each match. Diyarbakırspor wants the entire 90 minutes of its games to be broadcast on the Kurdish-language channel.
"I have appeared on TRT-6 as the chairman of Diyarbakırspor and spoken in Kurdish. TRT-6 has no problem with this request. However, legal impediments might exist about the channel’s right to broadcast an entire match," said Yakut. He said there was a lot of demand for games to be broadcast in Kurdish from the club’s supporters and said that viewer numbers of TRT-6 would increase dramatically if this were implemented.
"There is a lot of potential to increase the number of viewers in the region if sports broadcasts are implemented. We will put this forward to TRT’s general directorate. If they are interested in increasing the number of their viewers they will take action," said Yakut.
"We want reruns of our team’s games to be broadcast on certain days," he said.