SPOTV

SPOTV
Broadcast area	South Korea; Southeast Asia (except Vietnam); Hong Kong
Headquarters	Seoul, South Korea
Programming
Language(s)	Korean; English; Japanese; Malay (Malaysia only); Indonesian (Indonesia only) ; Filipino (Philippines only)
Picture format	720p/1080i HDTV; (downscaled to 16:9 576i/480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Eclat Media Group
History
Founded	April 29, 2010
Launched	May 1, 2010 (South Korea); October 1, 2021 (Malaysia, Astro feed; Thailand); October 4, 2021 (Philippines, Sky Cable feed); October 11, 2021 (Singapore, Singtel TV feed); October 14, 2021 (Malaysia, Unifi TV feed); October 22, 2021 (Singapore, StarHub TV feed); December 1, 2021 (Brunei, Kristal Astro feed); January 11, 2022 (Indonesia, MNC Vision Networks (MVN) and IndiHome feed)[1][2]; March 1, 2022 (Hong Kong); March 3, 2022 (Indonesia, First Media feed)[3]; June 16, 2022 (Philippines, Cignal feed);
Links
Website	spotv.net (South Korea) ; spotvasia.com (Southeast Asia)
Availability
Streaming media
SPOTV Now (South Korea)	Watch Live; (requires subscription)
SPOTV Now (Southeast Asia)	Watch Live; (requires subscription, currently available on mobile)
Vision+ (Indonesia)	Watch Live; (requires subscription)
Maxstream (Indonesia)	Watch Live; (Telkomsel customers only)

SPOTV is a South Korean pay television network, which features sports programming and some sports-related talk shows. Founded in 2010, the network is the fourth non-'free-to-air' broadcaster in South Korea alongside KBS N Sports, MBC Sports+ and SBS Sports (the latter two of which were previously founded under a joint venture with ESPN International in the early 2000s and 2010s respectively).

On December 1, 2015, The Daily Dot reported that SPOTV may be acquiring the rights to broadcast League of Legends Champions Korea from OnGameNet (now called as OGN) for its sister channel SPOTV Games, which mostly aired eSports tournaments,[4] before it was rebranded as STATV in March 2020, which focus on athletes and celebrities. They also got SPOTV ON, which aired sports that didn't usually air on SPOTV & SPOTV2, along with SPOTV NOW, a sports-dedicated streaming service similar to DAZN and ESPN+. They also got SPOTV Golf & Health, for golf and eellness, as the channel previously founded as its additional in-house channel SPOTV+.

In May 2020, the U.S. television network ESPN began showing Korea Baseball Organization games with video feed from SPOTV following the lack of live sports programming in the United States due to the pandemic.[5]

On September 14, 2021, Eclat Entertainment announced that they will bring SPOTV to 13 Southeast Asian countries.[6] SPOTV will take over the role of recently closed Fox Sports Asia in those countries, awhile to promoting other sporting events which has been aired in the respective Asian countries.[7] SPOTV were also responsible to covering the remaining 2021 MotoGP World Championship where Fox Sports abruptly concluding the coverage following the shutdown announcement.[8]

Notes

References

"MNC Vision Networks x SPOTV Resmi Siarkan MotoGP, Badminton BWF & Program Sport Lainnya". Sindonews.com (in Indonesian). January 6, 2022.
Kurniawan, Haris (January 14, 2022). "Bersama SPOTV, IndiHome Hadirkan Tayangan Olahraga Terbaik Dunia". Merdeka.com (in Indonesian).
"First Media World on Instagram: "Mimin datang membawa kabar gembira!!! Kini First People bisa menikmati pertandingan kelas dunia seperti Moto GP, Wimbledon, the Open Championships, BWF dan masih banyak lagi di SPOTV yang hadir di First Media. Nikmati FREE Preview mulai 3-17 Maret 2022 yang hadir di no channel : SPOTV SD - CH 139 SPOTV HD - CH 329 SPOTV 2 SD - Ch 140 SPOTV 2 HD - Ch 330 Yuk stay tuned dan tunggu kejutan lainnya dari mimin! #FirstMedia #BeneranTanpaBatas #LinkNet"".
Wolf, Jacob (November 27, 2015). "OnGameNet may lose exclusive broadcast rights to the LCK". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
ESPN News Services (May 4, 2020). "ESPN to televise Korea Baseball Organization games". ESPN.com. Retrieved October 23, 2021.
"[보도자료] SPOTV 보유한 에이클라 미디어 그룹, 동남아 13개국 스포츠 미디어 시장 진출 발표". SPOTV (in Korean). September 14, 2021. Retrieved September 15, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
McCullagh, Kevin (September 17, 2021). "Eclat to replace Fox Sports Asia with 'lean and localised' SPOTV". SportBusiness. Retrieved September 21, 2021.
White, Jonathan (October 3, 2021). "South Korea's SPOTV launches in Hong Kong with Moto GP coverage". South China Morning Post. Retrieved October 13, 2021.

External links

Official website

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[1] "MNC Vision Networks x SPOTV Resmi Siarkan MotoGP, Badminton BWF & Program Sport Lainnya". Sindonews.com (in Indonesian). January 6, 2022.

[2] Kurniawan, Haris (January 14, 2022). "Bersama SPOTV, IndiHome Hadirkan Tayangan Olahraga Terbaik Dunia". Merdeka.com (in Indonesian).

[3] "First Media World on Instagram: "Mimin datang membawa kabar gembira!!! Kini First People bisa menikmati pertandingan kelas dunia seperti Moto GP, Wimbledon, the Open Championships, BWF dan masih banyak lagi di SPOTV yang hadir di First Media. Nikmati FREE Preview mulai 3-17 Maret 2022 yang hadir di no channel : SPOTV SD - CH 139 SPOTV HD - CH 329 SPOTV 2 SD - Ch 140 SPOTV 2 HD - Ch 330 Yuk stay tuned dan tunggu kejutan lainnya dari mimin! #FirstMedia #BeneranTanpaBatas #LinkNet"".

[4] Wolf, Jacob (November 27, 2015). "OnGameNet may lose exclusive broadcast rights to the LCK". The Daily Dot. Retrieved December 1, 2015.

[5] ESPN News Services (May 4, 2020). "ESPN to televise Korea Baseball Organization games". ESPN.com. Retrieved October 23, 2021.

[6] "[보도자료] SPOTV 보유한 에이클라 미디어 그룹, 동남아 13개국 스포츠 미디어 시장 진출 발표". SPOTV (in Korean). September 14, 2021. Retrieved September 15, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[7] McCullagh, Kevin (September 17, 2021). "Eclat to replace Fox Sports Asia with 'lean and localised' SPOTV". SportBusiness. Retrieved September 21, 2021.

[SPOTVHK-8] White, Jonathan (October 3, 2021). "South Korea's SPOTV launches in Hong Kong with Moto GP coverage". South China Morning Post. Retrieved October 13, 2021.