In 2003, Yousef Al-Obaidly played a decisive role in the successful launch of what will become the most important pay television network in the MENA region, in the field of sport. In 2012, he led the expansion of the international network, with the launch of beIN sports in France, America and Asia-Pacific. In speech in sports executives in October 2019, beIN Media Group CEO, Yousef Al-Obaidly explained that the exclusivity of sports rights exclusivity is dead and piracy is still rife, read more here in http://www.insideworldfootball.com/2019/10/08/worst-nightmare-beins-al-obaidly-tells-sleep-walking-rights-owners-tv-bubble-burst/.
About BeIn Sports
BeIN Sports is a network of pay sports channels, a subsidiary of the Qatari group Al Jazeera, created on June 1, 2012 via the launch of beIn Sport 1. The BeIN Sport package brings together two channels dedicated to sport: BeIN Sport 1 and BeIN Sport 2, as well as a multiplex composed of eight channels called BeIN Sport MAX (and numbered from 3 to 10), making it possible to cover several events simultaneously. The network is piloted from Paris and directed by Florent Houzot. Its manager of sports and television activities in Europe is Nasser al-Khelaifi. BeIN’s current slogan is “Full sport TV”.
Canal + was in bad shape on the market for football broadcasting rights. But the group is redecorating itself at the end of 2019. After having obtained the distribution of the two most beautiful posters of each day of the Champions League for the period 2021-24 , the encrypted channel has again joined beIN Sports . The Canal group formalized on Monday an agreement with the Qatari channel for the dissemination of the prizes obtained by it for the Ligue 1 matches between 2020 and 2024. Two matches per day are concerned, those of Saturday at 9:00 p.m. and Sunday at 5:00 p.m. ,
Premium Posters On Canal
First choice posters will thus be broadcast on the encrypted channel, which however had not won any lot during the invitation to tender, the results of which the Professional Football League had announced in May 2018.
As a reminder, it is Mediapro, beaten on the Champions League, which had won the majority of lots to bring the amount of TV rights to a record level of more than a billion euros per season. In addition to this agreement on L1, ” Canal + and beIN Sports have engaged in exclusive discussions with a view to concluding an exclusive distribution agreement”, for a renewable period of 5 years.
“Under the terms of the agreement, CANAL + would offer all of the premium sports channels from beIN SPORTS and their content in its offers. In parallel, CANAL + would and to all third-party operators in France. “
