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Global Polo TV
With watching polo in person still restricted due to Covid-19, Polo Times caught up with one of the leading media outlets for watching polo globally
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espite ongoing global pandemic situations, polo is slowly returning with events around the world. During August and September, tournaments were held in England, France and Santa Barbara with games livestreamed on Global Polo TV to audiences all over the world. Global Polo TV commented “As we approach the upcoming
polo season in Argentina and the United States, we look forward to hosting events, ensuring players remain safe and healthy, and producing online digital platform content to allow fans to stay connected to the game. The United States Polo Association (USPA) and Global Polo Entertainment (GPE), a for-profit subsidiary of the USPA, are both committed, now more than
ever, to growing the game and bringing polo players and fans the best coverage of live games anytime, anywhere and on any device. In 2020, we launched a new over-the-top (OTT) platform called Global Polo TV that offers subscribers free access to content such as short films, video-ondemand and other archived games and interviews. From the onset, our goals for Global Polo TV have been to elevate the competition of our tournaments, such as the newly created Gauntlet of Polo®, and bring more awareness to the sport through global TV broadcasts and now this OTT platform. Since the January 2020 launch, more than 8,000 fans have subscribed from 50 countries, yielding 165,000 visits to the site. More than 468 programs aired and subscribers viewed tens of thousands of hours of content. As we look to the future, we are committed to growing Global Polo TV to reach more polo fans and provide
Photograph by ©David Lominska
Global Polo TV
The Gauntlet of Polo® Pass will include all three Gauntlet of Polo® tournament games, including The C.V. Whitney Cup (pictured)
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Polo Times, November 2020
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