Maxime Saada, Canal+ Chairman and CEO of Canal+ Group, has told daily Le Figaro that the company wants to return the €330 million TV rights sub-licensed from beIN Sports. He also wants a re-tender for the 2020-2024 campaigns. Following the cancellation of Mediapro’s deal with French professional football league LFP, clubs anticipate Canal+ once again […]
A carefully-orchestrated – and highly public – rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and four other gulf states and Qatar sees the end result as a reopening of trade, contacts and communications. The various announcements do not specifically mention Qatar’s Al Jazeera news channel, or the long-running dispute with Qatar-based beIN Sports. But the agreements, showcased at […]
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and beIN Sports have announced a multiyear expansion of their broadcast and digital partnership that will extend to 2024, marking a decade-long collaboration. As part of the agreement and ahead of the start of the 2020-21 NBA season that tips off on December 22nd, beIN Sports will also continue to […]
Amagi, a global SaaS leader in broadcast and streaming TV technology, has announced its partnership with Pac-12 Networks, the content arm of the Pac-12 Conference, as its innovative cloud platform for its recently-launched 24/7 Free Ad-Supported TV (FAST) channel, Pac-12 Insider. Pac-12, the ‘Conference of Champions,’ is a collegiate athletic conference that operates in the […]
On the first anniversary of the launch of beIN Sports Xtra, beIN Sports has announced the live, 24/7 English-language network has experienced huge growth, increasing its user base by 206 per cent between March 2020 and October 2020. beIN Sports Xtra launched in the US and Canada on November 17th 2019 and offers a sampling […]
Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, one of the largest operators of streaming advertising-supported video-on-demand (AVoD) networks, has announced the collaboration between Crackle Plus and Amagi to power the linear channel experience for Crackle, Popcornflix and other channels on a growing list of FAST (‘Free Ad-Supported TV’) platforms. At launch, Crackle and Popcornflix linear channels […]
Digital football media company OneFootball has announced a new digital-first, Free-to-Air (FTA) broadcasting partnership for the French Ligue 1 in Brazil. With immediate effect, and for the entirety of the 2020-21 season, OneFootball is now the exclusive Brazilian broadcasting partner of Ligue de Football Professionel (LFP) and their top-flight competition Ligue 1. The partnership will […]
beIN Sports and the International Swimming League (ISL), have announced a media rights agreement to broadcast live, the upcoming ISL 2020 regular season and semi-finals in Budapest, Hungary, during a condensed 5-week schedule from October 16th. beIN Sports will air this year’s biggest global sport event and the only major competition to feature the world’s […]
Qatar broadcaster beIN MEDIA has stepped up its attack on what it considers Saudi-led piracy of its copyrighted content, in particular alluding to the potential takeover of English Premier League football club Newcastle United. In a series of tweets, beIN notes that “having spent the past six weeks telling the world how the WTO ruling […]
Saudi Arabia says it has permanently terminated the broadcast licence of beIN Sports, which had been barred from broadcasting in the kingdom since mid-2017, over political disputes with Qatar. Saudi’s General Authority for Competition (GAC) said that it was also fining beIN Sports 10 million riyals (€2.34m) for practices “that restrict competition”. GAC’s decision follows […]