Elks In Punjabi
The CFL’s EDMONTON ELKS’ sport on JULY twenty ninth towards the B.C. LIONS will air in Punjabi on 1811258 ALBERTA LTD. multicultural CHAH-A (MY RADIO 580)/EDMONTON in what the workforce calls a primary for skilled soccer. HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA Punjabi’s HARPREET PANDHER and TAQDEER THINDAL will name the sport for the particular broadcast. The ELKS beforehand aired a sport broadcast in Cree in 2022.
“We’re as soon as once more excited to be making historical past, this time with the primary skilled soccer sport broadcast in Punjabi,” mentioned ELKS president and CEO VICTOR CUI. “JULY twenty ninth shall be one other instance of how we’re working as a membership to make soccer a welcoming place for all followers, together with by the consolation of listening to the sport of their first language.
“We couldn’t consider a greater matchup for our Punjabi broadcast, as we hope the printed can be loved by the big Punjabi group in B.C.”
MY RADIO 580 AM GM GURSHARAN BUTTAR mentioned, “It’s been greater than a century because the first baseball sport was broadcast over the radio, and we sit up for making our personal radio historical past this week. MY RADIO 580 AM’s partnership with the ELKS brings collectively soccer followers from totally different communities, offering them entry to their favourite groups and gamers and can carry the stadium to them by our stay protection.”
“I’m very excited to be calling a CFL sport in Punjabi — the primary in professional soccer historical past.” mentioned PANDHER. “Very similar to the ELKS’ Cree broadcast final yr, this one shall be profitable and I do know Punjabis will embrace it. We’ve had round a dozen South Asian gamers play within the CFL, and this broadcast is an effective way to attract new followers in and develop the sport with the group.”
“I’m honored and humbled to be part of the primary CFL broadcast in Punjabi. This shall be a historic second for CANADA connecting a sport that is part of Canadian roots with a rising South Asian group that’s so obsessed with Canadian sports activities,” mentioned THINDAL. “For me personally, rising up in better VANCOUVER and watching the CFL all through my childhood, it is a big day that I’ll without end cherish.”
