Main League Desk Tennis Signal First Media Treaty with CBS Sports activities

Major League Table tennis player Debora Vivarelli

Masha Zolotukhina

The Major League Table tennis is prime time.

The Pro-Table Tennis League, which started by the Entrepreneur Flint Lane software in 2023, signed its first national television contract with CBS Sports, the league announced on Wednesday. This happens when table tennis has experienced a revival of popularity and as a broadcaster are hungry for sports content.

The conditions of the deal were not announced, but CBS Sports will radiate MLTT games, exclusive highlights, player profiles and features behind the scenes throughout the season from Sunday at 8 p.m.

“This partnership with CBS Sports is a defining milestone for the Major League table tennis,” Lane, founder and commissioner of MLTT, told CNBC. “It is proof of the energy, the talent and the growing attraction of the league that captivates the audience. We are happy to bring professional table tennis in millions of houses.”

MLTT said it was one of the fastest growing sports in America on digital and social platforms and his viewers on YouTube grew by more than 1,200%from its first season in the second season. MLTT also found that according to the World Atlas, table tennis is the sixth most popular sport in the world with 850 million fans.

MLTT currently has eight teams from cities in the United States. The teams compete against each other during weekend games.

The league has collected capital of around 10 million US dollars, said Flint with investments of names such as David Blitzer, owner of Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment, to which the Washington Commanders and Philadelphia 76ers and Daryl Morey, President of the Philadelphia 76ers, belong .

The former star of San Antonio Spurs, Manu Ginóbili, is an owner of a minority team in the MLTT team The Florida Crocs.

“Table tennis is considered a basement in America,” said Flint. “There are professional leagues all over Europe, but we have never had a professional league in this country, so we have more credibility.”

Flint said that the sport got a boost at the Olympic Games in Paris, where two Americans made it for the first time until the 16th round. One of these players, Lily Jong, plays for Mltt.

The USA table tables team met Steph Curry at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

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The sport also did a certain company during the Olympic Games when Stephen Curry, star of Golden State Warriors, met the United States' team at opening ceremonies and later invited them to sit on the pitch in a game.

While MLTT has not yet been approved for sports betting, betting on table tennis during the Coronavirus pandemic gained when many sports were closed. In some states like Oregon, table tennis is one of the top sports for bets due to its quick pace and quickly changing chances of winning.

Flint now said that the league has attracted a television contract that it will concentrate on selling two expansion teams and increasing the presence of sport based.

Disclosure: CNBC Parent NBCuniversal has NBC Sports and NBC Olympiad. NBC Olympics is the US round of radio rights for all summer and winter games until 2032.