Pay-television broadcaster BeIN Sports has laid off almost 300 employees in Qatar, or about 18 per cent of its local staff. Bloomberg reported that BeIN said the decision was required to “right-size their business”, due to the impact of the beoutQ pirate broadcast that is making its content freely available across the Middle East.
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