BeIN Media Group

BeIN Media Group has begun legal action against various platforms and channels in the Middle East and North Africa, notably telco Ooredoo, for infringement of its exclusive Uefa Euro 2016 rights in the region.

Uefa will stream exclusive live coverage in Spain of 28 matches from the Euro 2016 national team football tournament after CAA Eleven, the agency acting on behalf of football’s European governing body, failed to reach a rights deal for the package.

Mike Kerr, the former chief executive of golf’s Asian Tour, has joined beIN Media Group and will serve as the company’s managing director in Asia.

Turkey’s state-owned Savings Deposit Insurance Fund has approved the sale of pay-television broadcaster Digiturk to beIN Media Group, according to the Anadolu news agency.

Thai digital-terrestrial broadcaster PPTV has boosted its sports portfolio by sublicensing a slate of football rights from beIN Media Group.

BeIN Media Group has acquired rights for events operated by the Women’s Tennis Association in a multi-territory deal.

The MP & Silva agency is thought to have paid an increase of just under 35 per cent to renew its global rights deal with Italy’s top men’s volleyball league, Lega Pallavolo Serie A.

Pay-television broadcaster BeIN Sports will stream live coverage of the 2015-16 finals of the Uefa Champions League and Europa League club football tournaments to audiences in Spain via video-sharing platform YouTube.

BeIN Media Group has acquired rights for the Wimbledon Championships in the Middle East and North Africa.

Thai streaming platform PPTV has acquired rights for football’s English Premier League in a sublicensing deal with beIN Media Group.

Telecommunications companies Vodafone and Orange have agreed carriage deals in Spain for the beIN Sports LaLiga channel.

MotoGP’s deals in the Americas with beIN Media Group and ESPN have significantly increased the value of the motorcycling series in the region.

Australian pay-television operator Foxtel has struck a carriage deal with beIN Media Group to add three beIN Sports channels to its sports package.

Currency depreciation against the dollar has hurt English Premier League revenues in its final three deals in Asian markets.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has secured rights to Europe’s Ski Classics long-distance cross-country skiing competition in the United States and Canada.

LaLiga president Javier Tebas this week described the Spanish league’s new domestic media rights deals as “historic” in terms of income and the completion of the move to collective selling.

Interview with LaLiga president Javier Tebas on the first centralised tender for Spanish domestic football rights.

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has secured the main package of domestic rights for Spain's LaLiga, dislodging telecommunications company Telefónica as the main rights-holder for domestic club football in the country.