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German TV stations have long time experience with showing table tennis and they’ve received bad results in the viewer statistics. Some years ago the premiere league has paid the sports channel DSF, but even then the viewing rate was quite low.
We can learn from this experience that TT hobby players are not interested in watching their own sport on a professional level. The public audience does not regard TT as a competitive sport, it is more a tricky hobby for them that is practiced in garages and on schoolyards.
This image problem will not be solved by any reform on TT regulations. It does not depend on friction factors and long pimples, it does not depend on the speed of the ball or on the length of a rally.
What are your future plans for work on this image problem?
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The first step is that I have to work on you. YOU have to watch your own sport and support it more. YOU have to call your local newspaper and ask them for the results of the German players at the Slovenia Open. YOU have to call your local TV station and tell them you want to see Timo Ball in action. YOU have to inform everyone in your club that TT is on the ITTF's itTV regularly and they can watch it. YOU have to ask your club mates to call the local TV station and ask for TT. YOU have to convince your club mates to write or call the local newspaper and ask for TT results. YOU have to sell our sport to everyone you know. YOU are a TT fan, so YOU have to promote our sport.
Now if I can convince just 10% of the German TT players like YOU, then I have reached my goal.
OK, now can you convince 10 people to do so?