BeIN Media Group

Basketball
MENA

BeIN Media Group has extended its rights to NBA games in the Middle East and North Africa, under a multi-year agreement announced today (Wednesday)
Multiple Sports
Saudi Arabia

London’s High Court of Justice has rejected a counterclaim made by pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group against Selevision Saudi, but highlighted evidence that raises a “serious issue” over the S…
Multiple Sports
MENA

Saudi Arabia is set to lift its four-and-a-half-year ban on beIN Sports operating in the country and has offered to settle the broadcaster’s $1bn (€870m) legal case against it, potentially bringing to …
Football
Latin America

Disney is hoping its decision to dominate the football rights market in Latin America will drive a strong influx of subscribers to its Star+ streaming platform, which launched across the region on August 31.
Football
Indian Subcontinent

Indian media group Viacom18’s acquisitions of rights to Italy’s Serie A and France’s Ligue 1 signify the growing presence of tech and media giant Reliance in the Indian sports broadcasting landscape.
Multiple Sports
USA

BeIN Sports has expanded its reach in the United States by securing distribution on streaming service YouTube TV as part of the Sports Plus add-on package
Football
Vietnam

VTV Cab, the pay-television arm of Vietnamese state broadcaster VTV, has acquired rights to French football’s Ligue 1 from 2021-22 to 2023-24.
Football
Spain

Fans in Spain will be able to watch live action from France’s Ligue 1 once again after a broadcast rights agreement was struck and details of free-to-air coverage for this weekend’s action were announced.
Football
France

Subscription broadcaster beIN Sports and Italy’s Lega Serie A have announced a three-season rights renewal in France and Southeast Asia, along with the addition of the rights in Malaysia, Singapore and N…
Football
MENA

Bundesliga International, the global rights sales arm of the German Bundesliga, is moving closer to re-establishing live coverage in the Middle East and North Africa following the expiry of its deal with…
Triathlon
Middle East

The Collins Cup, the flagship event of the Professional Triathletes Organisation, is to be shown by subscription broadcaster beIN Media Group across the Middle East and North Africa, USA and Canada
Football
Romania

Romanian pay-television broadcaster Digi Sport has retained its rights to French football’s Ligue 1 until the end of the 2023-24 season.
Basketball
Turkey

The Saran Media Group will become the new broadcast rights-holder in Turkey to the top-tier EuroLeague basketball competition from the 2022-23 season onwards
Football
France

Canal Plus has been ordered to perform its obligations under a sublicensing contract with beIN Sports and air two Ligue 1 fixtures per matchweek, along with settling its rights payments, the Nanterre Commercial…
Football
France

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) has been successful in being granted an interim order against beIN Sports over the payment of broadcast rights to Ligue 1, although the pay-television broadcaster r…
Football
France

France’s Professional Football League (LFP) was this afternoon preparing to join pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports’ legal action against Canal Plus as the league body changes tack in its bid to pro…
Football
France

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has called on a conciliator in a bid to solve the bitter payment dispute that continues to engulf French football a week before the 2021-22 Ligue 1 season kicks off
Multi-sport
Netherlands

Dutch telco Ziggo has acquired broadcast rights to French football’s Ligue 1 and extended rights to various other sports properties in a response to the market entry by the media company Nordic Entertainment (…