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Australia: beIN Sports selects Screach

beIN Sports has teamed up with the Screach streaming platform to deliver its coverage of football and tennis to thousands of commercial venues across Australia. beIN Sports holds the exclusive Australian broadcast rights to more than 1,000 football matches a year, including all fixtures in Italy’s Serie A, English Football League, Carabao Cup, Bundesliga, Scottish […]

August 21, 2023

beIN extends Premier League rights

The Premier League has agreed a deal to extend their overseas TV contract for the Middle East and Africa with beIN Sports. The deal, reportedly agreed in principle at a shareholder’s meeting, is a three year extension (starting with the 2025-26 season) that is worth around £550 million (€629m). The move that will come as […]

April 6, 2023

beIN renews PTO Tour deal

The Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO) has renewed its deal with beIN Sports, as one of the main broadcasters of the 2023 PTO Tour. The deal will see them broadcast the PTO Tour on a non-exclusive basis in MENA, Asia and North America (US & Canada). The agreement means beIN Sports will broadcast live coverage of […]

April 4, 2023

Erstream manages Australian Open 2023 services for beIN Sports

Erstream Video Delivery Company, the leading provider of over-the-top solutions for the online television and media industry, successfully managed the Head End and Streaming Origin Services of the online streaming events of the Australian Open 2023 for beIN Asia Pacific’s live streaming service, beIN Sports Connect, covering Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, Malaysia, Hong […]

February 28, 2023

beIN teams with Synamedia for new 4K channel

beIN Media Group, the sports and entertainment broadcaster, added a 4K UHD channel to its OTT platform, beIN CONNECT, to stream the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 with the support of Cognacq-Jay Image and using Synamedia Quortex’s just-in-time processing. With Synamedia’s SaaS-based solution and Cognacq-Jay Image’s team of experts, beIN was able to quickly launch […]

February 14, 2023

beIN Sports signs Coupe De France deal

beIN Media Group and the French Football Federation (FFF) have signed an agreement to broadcast all men’s Coupe de France (French Cup) matches and a selection of women’s matches until 2026, in a move that that will see the Group’s flagship channel, beIN Sports, continue to provide a platform for French football in more than […]

January 4, 2023

New streaming apps on Astro Ulti Box

Astro, the Malaysian satellite television and IPTV provider, has announced the addition of the iQIYI, TVBAnywhere+, beIN Sports Connect and BBC Player apps on the Ulti Box so customers can stream more global sporting events and Asian entertainment including Korean, Chinese and Hong Kong dramas and movies, British programmes, local favourites and anime on their […]

December 22, 2022

beIN Sports moves to Measat-3d

beIN Sports is migrating its Asia-Pacific sports broadcasts to Measat-3d, the operator’s new satellite. The move has been made by Globecast which serves and links beIN’s activity in the region. Measat-3d launched in June and the beIN trio of channels are the first to move to it. Measat-3d is co-located with the operator’s 3a and […]

October 25, 2022By Chris Forrester

AFC, beIN sign long-term MENA deal

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and beIN Media Group have agreed a new long-term deal in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region covering the AFC’s competitions over three cycles up to 2032. For the initial 2022-2024 period, the agreement grants beIN – whose flagship channel is beIN Sports – exclusive rights to all […]

October 6, 2022

Group ONE, beIN sign MENA content deal

beIN Media Group (beIN) and Group ONE Holdings (ONE) have announced an exclusive multi-year partnership to broadcast ONE Championship events live across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the first time in the region. This milestone partnership marks the first time beIN is distributing mixed martial arts content to its audiences, underlining the […]

September 29, 2022By Nik Roseveare