SPOTV is a South Korean

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network, which features

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programming and some sports-related talk shows. Founded in 2010, the network is the fourth non-'

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' broadcaster in

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alongside KBS N Sports,

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and

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(the latter two of which were previously founded under a joint venture with

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in the early 2000s and 2010s respectively). On December 1, 2015, ''

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'' reported that SPOTV may be acquiring the rights to broadcast

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from

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(now called as OGN) for its sister channel SPOTV Games, which mostly aired eSports tournaments, 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

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and

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. 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

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began showing

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games with video feed from SPOTV following the lack of live sports programming in the

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due to the pandemic. On September 14, 2021, Eclat Entertainment announced that they will bring SPOTV to 13 Southeast Asian countries. SPOTV will take over the role of recently closed

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in those countries, awhile to promoting other sporting events which has been aired in the respective Asian countries. SPOTV were also responsible to covering the remaining

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where Fox Sports abruptly concluding the coverage following the shutdown announcement.

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