THE VOICE OF JAZEERA SPORT
If the whole Italy already know how good SKY Sport is for Volleyball, the rest of the planet counts on several TVs that, thanks to the work of the Serie A Volleyball League, broadcast matches in all the five continents bringing the Serie A1 TIM all over the world. Most of all there is a huge TV Cover organized by Al Jazeera Sport, satelite channel no seeable in Italy, but that reach a lot of countries for a total of 340 milions of people, from North Africa to the Middle East. The images are just the same that we see here in Italy on the SKY channels. The voice and the comments belong to George Abou Fayssal, 37 years old, on air since 1993. His comments to the Serie A1 TIM Matches are via satellite, from the Al Jazeeera Sport head office, in Doha, Qatar.
George has played in his national team for 3 years and he hold also the license to be a coach, license released by the Olympic Comitee. For 5 years he coached in Lebanon in the first division, the maximum level. “To attract the attention to our network – said George before the playoff semifinals – has been the presence of ones of the most important players in the world in your Serie A1 TIM. There a lot of them. I always try to be fair during my comments, but I don’t hide the fact that my favourite teams is Sisley Treviso and my favourite player is Samuele Papi”.
Legavolley.it, website of Serie A Volleyball League, if the main source for updatings used by Abou Fayssal. “I am always on line with the volleyball Leauge website to be updated with the last news. It is great, especially since the website is completely translated in English”.
It is diffiuclt to value how the crowd answer to the Volleyball matches, at the moment Al Jazeera does not give any data about the viewers, but George is sure that a lot of peope watch the matches. “I keep receiving a lot of calls of people asking to watch again previous match of the Italian Championship. Your League is reaally loved and it is becoming very well known in the whole arab world, thanks to our channel”.
Also because we are talking about a first level product. “The TV production that arrives from Italy is simply great. We try to do our part, by adding to the Audio of the arenas, a double comments. Beside my voice there is also a very expert technical comment. But I have to say that Al Jazeera trust me a lot.
SERIE A1 TIM: PLAYOFF SEMIFINALS
CUNEO – PIACENZA BROADCAST ON SKY SPORT 3
Change of TV Programs for SKY Sport. Game 1 of the Playoff semifinals between Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo & Copra Berni Piacenza will be broadcasted live on Wednesday 25 at 6.00PM on SKY Sport 3 (instead of SKY Sport Extra).
