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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

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.
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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

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

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.
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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.
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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…
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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
Media

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

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

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

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’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’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

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

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 (…
Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports has been “compelled” to take legal action against France’s Professional Football League (LFP) after losing a legal case against Canal Plus this afternoon at the N…
Football

Pay-television broadcaster beIN Media Group has confirmed its chairman, Nasser Al-Khelaïfi, and other officials have been the subject of “malicious hacks and threats”.