beIN Media Group, the global sports and entertainment group, has secured the non-exclusive broadcast rights to the debut season of motorsport series Extreme E across 24 countries in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA). beIN Sports will air live races featuring the 100 per cent electric motorsport cars, highlight shows and the series’ 20-part […]
Discovery and beIN Media Group have announced that they will continue their longstanding partnership across the Middle East and North Africa. Since first partnering in 2016, Discovery’s agreement with beIN has seen viewer have access to Discovery content from HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel and Fatafeat. The renewed agreement will also see the addition of […]
beIN Media Group, the global sports and entertainment broadcaster, and GAME Polo have agreed a deal which will see beIN Sports broadcast the highlights to the 2021 POLO Rider Cup in 12 territories, including: the US Canada, Turkey, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, East Timor and Hong Kong. The international competition will take […]
StarTimes, the Chinese-owned pay-television operator in sub-Saharan Africa, is facing the threat of a winding up order after allegedly failing to pay beIN Media Group for rights to French football’s Ligue 1, according to a GlobalData report. GlobalData also said that the broadcaster, part of Hong Kong-based holding company Century Sun, has delayed payments to […]
Amagi, a global SaaS leader in broadcast and streaming TV technology, has announced it is working with Little Dot Studios to help deliver its expansion into OTT and CTV platforms. Little Dot Studios, an award-winning digital content studio and broadcaster, is one of the largest distributors of premium television content on YouTube and is now […]
StarTimes, the Chinese-owned pay-television operator in sub-Saharan Africa, is facing the threat of a winding up order after failing to pay beIN Media Group for rights to French football’s Ligue 1, according to a GlobalData report. GlobalData also says that the broadcaster, part of Hong Kong-based holding company Century Sun, has delayed payments to other […]
beIN Sports France has agreed a deal with Canal+ for the domestic rights to Ligue 2 football in France until the end of the current season. beIN Sports already held a package of rights to Ligue 2 but now becomes the exclusive broadcaster of all Ligue 2 action in the country. The amount paid has […]
Canal+ is taking legal action to protest against the decision by the French football league LFP to initiate a partial re-tender over the 2020-2024 football TV rights. Canal+ says this new auction, due to end on February 1st, is an anti-competitive move. Following the cancellation of Mediapro’s deal in December 2020, LFP’s tender process is […]
VIZIO has announced the launch of three new sports channels and an all-in-one sports app for SmartCast viewers across the US. The free channels include the NFL Channel, Pac-12 Insider, and beIN Sports Xtra, as well as the CBS Sports App. All three channels and the CBS Sports app are completely free to all SmartCast […]
French professional football league LFP has partially agreed to Canal+’s request that there be a fresh bidding round for 2020-2024 rights and has initiated a tender process covering 80 per cent of Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches, following the cancellation of Mediapro’s deal in December 2020. This excludes the batch acquired by beIN Sports […]