From April 21st to 28th, the Liebherr 2019 ITTF World Table Tennis Championships will officially start in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. By then, fans all over the world will be able to enjoy this year's most epic table tennis feast through live broadcasts.
The TV broadcast of the last single-event World Table Tennis Championships - the 2017 Dusseldorf World Table Tennis Championships covered 122 countries and regions around the world, attracting a total of nearly 360 million viewers, setting a new record for single-event World Table Tennis Championships media data.
At 16:00 on April 21, Beijing time, the first round of mixed doubles qualifying will officially kick off the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships. By then, 25 national/international channels from all continents will intensively broadcast tables 1 and 2 starting from the main game. Fans from at least 145 countries and regions around the world will enjoy the largest table tennis event of the year through these channels.
The main TV channels include China Central Television (CCTV), TV Tokyo (TV TOKYO) and Eurosport. They will transmit the grand event of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships to all European countries, West Asia, Central Asia, and China and Japan. The Japanese market is particularly critical this year. As the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approaches, the popularity of table tennis continues to rise in Japan.
Judging from the broadcast duration, China Central Television alone will conduct more than 50 hours of live broadcast, and combined with the broadcast duration of other channels, this will create a new record in the history of World Table Tennis Championships TV broadcasts. Television production will also enter a new phase. There will be up to 18 camera seats arranged on Stage 1 of this World Table Tennis Championships to ensure that every possible angle is shown to audiences around the world.
Currently, in mainland China, fans can watch the exciting World Table Tennis Championships through multiple channels. China Central Television will broadcast content related to the World Table Tennis Championships in the daily opening time slot of CCTV5 from April 22 to 28. CCTV5+ will broadcast content related to the World Table Tennis Championships on April 23, 24, 27 and 28 (the specific broadcast schedule is subject to CCTV’s program list for next week). In terms of the
network platform, "China Sports" zhibo.tv will broadcast the entire World Table Tennis Championships live through all eight official signals and self-made signals. In addition, "China Sports" zhibo.tv will also bring a panoramic game viewing experience to Chinese fans through a large editorial team. Netizens can also enjoy this table tennis feast through Toutiao, Xigua Video, , Douyin, and other platforms.
will broadcast the whole process and watch the game in full! Liebherr's 2019 World Table Tennis Championships will surely create an unprecedented viewing experience!