Media Coverage of Football in China
Football is covered by the Chinese media. National competitions are generally televised on CCTV-5, the sports channel. Guangdong Television reserves rights, however, for the Premier League and the UEFA Champions League. Since 1996, CCTV-5 has weekly programmes televising live games in the Italian Serie A and German Bundesliga to Football Night (足球之夜), a programme dedicated to anything football. Shanghai's Dongfang Sports channel also has regular football coverage.
Peer-to-peer sharing programs such as PPLive and PPStream stream live football in all of the world's major competitions, and is a wide source of football programming worldwide, even for non-Chinese speaking people.
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