Sports Channels

I recently relented and gave in to the Starhub sports channel monopoly.

Bo pian. I really want to watch sports on tv and ever since Mediacorp became too cheap to buy coverage of sports events, there does not seem to be much of an alternative.

Truth is, ever since Starhub managed to get exclusive rights to all the football programmes via ESPN and Star Sports and in the process creating their sports monopoly, there has been less and less sports coverage on normal free-to-air television.

Is this how our intellectual property and competition laws have affected us? We are now forced to pay for things we used to get free?

According to received wisdom (from the creators of intellectual property and anti-competition laws), our lives are supposed to improve. Well, mine hasn't! So some people out there must have shit for brains.

That aside, I have recently been picking up tennis again. I now try to play weekly with folks from my office. Bought a new racket too. Am so pleased.

Woohoo!