BeIN Media Group
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Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has said it has received no “official communication” from Saudi Arabia, amid some reports that the beIN Sports channels have returned to the air in the country.
Football
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Lega Serie A has today (Friday) published its invitation to tender for broadcast rights in the Middle East and North Africa from 2021-22 to 2023-24, offering a region-wide package and individual packages…
Football
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Matches from French football’s Ligue 1 are to be broadcast with local-language commentary in Togo by New World Sports, the satellite television broadcaster in the West African country.
Governance

Saudi Arabia has agreed to end its three-and-a-half year blockade of Qatar, raising hopes for positive knock-on effects within the sports industry including an end to a disruption of the business of pay-television…
Football
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The Turkish Football Federation and pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group will hope to have put a dispute over scheduled payments behind them after a new payment plan was agreed between the two parties…
Industry Moves

International pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has named Rashed Al-Marri as executive vice-president of sports content at Digiturk, its Turkish pay-television broadcaster
Football
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The Turkish Football Federation and Digiturk, the Turkish pay-television subsidiary of beIN Media Group, have publicly voiced their differences of opinion over rights fee payments to the top-tier Turkish…
Football
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The Premier League has renewed its broadcast rights deal in the Middle East and North Africa with pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group in a major agreement in one of the league’s key markets.
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Sports streaming service Fanatiz has added beIN Sports Xtra and the Trace Sports-Stars channel to its platform.
Football
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The Turkish Football Federation and pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group have renegotiated the terms of the final two years of their Turkish Süper Lig media rights agreement, bringing to an end …
Football
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The latest round of negotiations between pay-television broadcaster beIN and the Turkish Football Federation appears close to ending after the body’s president issued a statement saying that it was willing t…
Football
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BeIN Media Group has sealed a long-term media rights deal for France’s Ligue 1 in Poland with subscription broadcaster Eleven Sports following two seasons without coverage in the country.
Industry Moves

Fan engagement and gamification company Sport Buff has appointed Jonty Whitehead, formerly head of sports in the Mena region at pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group, as its president
Football
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OneFootball, the Germany-based digital platform, has added another high-profile property to its portfolio by securing streaming rights in Brazil to France’s Ligue 1 in another deal facilitated by the S…
Football
Finance & Law

BeIN Media Group chairman and Paris Saint-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaïfi has been acquitted of inciting aggravated criminal mismanagement while former Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke has be…
Rugby Union
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Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has acquired rights in Australia to rugby union’s new Autumn Nations Cup and Europe’s Heineken Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup.
Wrestling
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Subscription broadcaster beIN Sports has renewed an agreement for US rights to the Major League Wrestling promotion
Football
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Talks between the Turkish Football Federation and pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports have continued as the country’s governing body pushes for an amendment to the pair’s arrangement.