SportBusiness International » EXCLUSIVE: BeIN hits out at scaremongering and insists it’s business as usual despite Saudi blockade
EXCLUSIVE: BeIN hits out at scaremongering and insists it’s business as usual despite Saudi blockade
EXCLUSIVE: BeIN hits out at scaremongering and insists it’s business as usual despite Saudi blockade
By: Frank Dunne
By: Robin Jellis
Posted:
11 Jul 2017
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BeIN Media Group, the Qatari broadcaster, has hit out angrily at media reports suggesting beIN Sports channels are being blacked out in the Middle East and North Africa (Mena) as a consequence of the Saudi Arabia-led economic blockade of Qatar launched on June 5.
BeIN Media Group, the Qatari broadcaster, has hit out angrily at media reports suggesting beIN Sports channels are being blacked out in the Middle East and North Africa as a consequence of the Saudi Arabia-led economic blockade of Qatar. Frank Dunne and Robin Jellis report.
Qatari broadcaster beIN Media Group has extended its rights deal in the Middle East and North Africa region with European football’s governing body Uefa for the Champions League and Europa League club competitions.
The Asian Football Confederation has said it will continue to work with the Saudi Arabian Football Federation and the United Arab Emirates Football Association to ensure the uninterrupted broadcast of AFC Champions League and Fifa World Cup qualifying matches in a bid to protect its commercial rights amid the ongoing situation concerning rights-holder, Qatar-based pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports.
