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Thursday, October 16, 2008

NHL Hockey Broadcasts in Punjabi


Never thought I'd see the day.. The CBC is going to be broadcasting 55 NHL regular season games this season in Punjabi. It was an experiment they tried with last year's playoffs and it proved to be a big hit. Punjabi or Sikh-Canadians are HUGE hockey fans and this has really caught the community's attention. Its great to see the CBC recognize Canada's diversity and greatly expand the audience of our national sport. 

As for the announcers, Harnarayan Singh and Parminder Singh both have lots of television experience and are quickly finding their sports broadcasting feet. Their Punjabi is great, especially considering both of them have grown up in Canada. Their biggest challenge is finding or creating Punjabi words for hockey terminology or teams. 

What do you call a slapshot, Penguin or one-timer in Punjabi?

Here's the Facebook group and the CBC Sports sites.

View a video clip here.


2 comments:

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Anonymous said...

um no. keep it in english and french..it's been like this for 400 years..why is canada always sucking up to the 3rd world countries? if we go there, we have to change for them, and if they come here, WE STILL HAVE TO CHNAGE FOR THEM. it's unfair.

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