English Premier League Broadcast In Japan

English premier league terminates china tv broadcast contract after one season the premier league will not be commenting further on the matter at this stage it says in a statement.

Arsenal in premier league table. View the latest 201819 season tv broadcast schedules for your location and club on the official website of the premier league. The english premier league is the most watched sports league in the world. The premier league has taken unprecedented action and cancelled the remaining two years of its broadcast deal in china with pptv a company owned by conglomerate suning holdings group.

The contract with pptv which is owned by chinese. For instance the average premier league match attendance in the 201415 season exceeded 36000. The main broadcasters in the united kingdom are sky sports who broadcasts 128 of the 200 televised games in the uk bt sport 52 and amazon prime video 20.

The league is now seeking a new broadcast partner in china according to the person familiar with the matter. The bbc shows weekly highlights of the premier league on. However the first season of that deal was hit by the coronavirus pandemic with a three month shutdown between march and june before the season was completed behind closed doors.

Streaming service pptv agreed a reported us700 million rm28 billion deal for the right to broadcast all 380 premier league matches per season from 2019 to 2022. The english premier league terminated a lucrative broadcasting contract with its licensee in china on thursday dealing a further blow to the english top flight as clubs adjust to heavy. This is a list of television broadcasters which provide coverage of the premier league english footballs top level competition which is the most watched league in the world.

The premier league did not offer further comment in an emailed statement.