{"id":116,"date":"2015-07-22T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sporteventz.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/22\/the-scottish-professional-football-league-spfl-new-tv-deal-in-china\/"},"modified":"2019-11-21T18:59:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T18:59:39","slug":"the-scottish-professional-football-league-spfl-new-tv-deal-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sporteventz.com\/blog\/the-scottish-professional-football-league-spfl-new-tv-deal-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"The Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) New TV Deal in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Scottish Professional Football League<\/strong>&nbsp;has made a deal to show SPFL for the first time live in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal with&nbsp;<strong>leTV, China\u2019s biggest digital broadcast platform for sports<\/strong>, includes 55 Premiership matches available across TV, online and mobile. The deal also include broadcasting of Scottish league cup and Petrofac training cup matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Old Firm\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gYTy7i0dMwk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaste<\/strong>r said in his statement for BBC: <em>\u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic deal for Scottish football. Clearly, this is a massive market and gives our member clubs a great opportunity to sell themselves to the world&#8217;s fastest growing economy.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LeTV is a Chinese entertainment company and the largest online video company in China. It is the China\u2019s fastest growing sports media platform. With adding SPFL TV rights, their portfolio has now 120 sport media rights in 17 categories such as football, basketball, motor sports, cycling, marathon, equestrian and combat sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/click\/camref:1011l4pfu\/creativeref:1011l25335\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/creative.prf.hn\/source\/camref:1011l4pfu\/creativeref:1011l25335\" width=\"970\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chief executive Lei Zhenjian<\/strong> said: <em>&#8220;It is a great addition to our expanding line-up of premium sports content. Football&#8217;s popularity is rising in China and Letv Sports is committed to acquire as many of the world&#8217;s top sports properties as possible to serve our sports fans in China.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Scottish Professional Football League&nbsp;has made a deal to show SPFL for the first time live in China. The deal with&nbsp;leTV, China\u2019s biggest digital broadcast platform for sports, includes 55 Premiership matches available across TV, online and mobile. The deal also include broadcasting of Scottish league cup and Petrofac training cup matches. SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said in his statement for BBC: \u201cIt\u2019s a fantastic deal for Scottish football. 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