Who wants yesterday’s sports on television?

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018
Who wants yesterday’s sports on television?

As the Rolling Stones sang many moons ago, “Who wants yesterday’s papers? Nobody in the world.”

I subscribe not only to the newspaper but also to cable TV here in Thailand. I have noticed a definite decline in the quality and choice of the programmes (but the subscription price hasn’t gone down).
Recently, a quick run through the roughly 20 sports channels on offer with the package I bought (the second best) turned up eight football games and two snooker (snoozer?) channels, with the rest a mishmash of “sports”, some quite obscure – darts, a long-drive golf contest, something called kabbadi and a couple of reality shows – one based on guns, the other on cars. I looked in vain for any coverage of the recent Winter Olympics. I relied on the newspaper for information on that. 
Now I have been trying to watch the 2018 Masters golf. No luck. Oddly, there was a Masters preview show but that was followed by a motorcycle race. Last year I am sure they showed the Masters after the preview. They must have cut way down on broadcast-rights fees to boost the bottom line. What next, the World Tiddlywinks contest?
I noticed they are showing highlights of the Masters after it is already over. I thought I might watch those if I could just keep from finding out who had won. Alas, two seconds after going online I knew, even though I tried to avert my eyes. Now there is no point in watching the highlights. Or in continuing to subscribe to cable TV. Yesterday’s paper.
The Klongurchin 
Bangkok