The Saudi Sports Company has launched satellite sports channels and sealed a contract with the MBC Group to provide broadcasting services for these channels and to transmit the events of the Saudi competitions (Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Cup – Prince Mohammed bin Salman Professional Cup League – Saudi Super Cup), for the upcoming [...]
The sports TV network Fox Sports Mexico has announced this week that it will not broadcast Mexican football club Santos Laguna’s matches. The news was confirmed this last Monday, July 19th, a few days before the beginning of the Mexican Professional Football League’s (Liga MX) Torneo Apertura 2021. The announcement means the first time a [...]
beIN MEDIA GROUP, the global sports and entertainment broadcaster and its flagship sports channel beIN SPORTS is set to exclusively broadcast the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 from 23 July to 8 August 2021 across the 24 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), with 3,000 hours of planned coverage – the biggest worldwide. [...]
Pay TV channel Claro Sports (America Movil) announced that it has launched apps for Apple TV and Android TV devices, with the aim of strengthening its Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games coverage in Latin America. For this initiative, Claro Sports chose the Applicaster‘s app management technology, in order to extend the event’s distribution in the region, [...]
All is now set for the debut of the sixth season of the Africa’s biggest reality television show, Big Brother Naija, this Saturday. For its sixth season, BBNaija will provide a special double launch show on July 24, and 25, 2021. Both shows will be broadcasted from 7p.m. on DStv channel 198 and GOtv channel [...]
The OSN Streaming App is a direct-to-consumer, subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service, powered by Comcast Technology Solutions, that enables viewers to watch shows across connected TVs, computers, smartphones, and tablets. Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable provides media and entertainment technology to content providers, operators, and advertisers, has announced that its Cloud TV Suite serves the back-end platform [...]
DStv and GOtv viewers can look forward to the Summer Olympic Games 2020, which will run from 23 July to Sunday, 8 August in Tokyo, Japan. DStv will feature eight dedicated channels with SuperSport Football Plus becoming Olympic Channel 1, while SuperSport Premier League, La Liga, Football, Variety 1, Variety 2, Variety 3 and Variety [...]
According to IPSOS figures, beIN Sports saw a total of 100+ million viewers tune in across both finals on Sunday 11 July – with the unforgettable UEFA EURO 2020 England vs. Italy and the COPA America 2021 Brazil vs. Argentina matches receiving 64.4 million viewers and 36.1 million respectively. Additionally, France, Italy, Germany, and Portugal [...]
During its Q2 2021 results report presentation, Daniel Hajj, CEO at the telecommunications company America Movil, said that they expect the Instituto Federal de Telecomunicaciones (IFT), entity in charge of regulating and supervising the telecommunications market in the country, to grant it the license to provide pay TV in Mexico before the end of the [...]
CANAL+ is partnering with Universal Music Africa (UMA) to celebrate music and introduce Digster Africa, UMA’s 100% African streaming platform, to its subscribers in Africa. From 1 to 31 July, each Canal+ Bouquets subscriber who renews their subscription will receive 1 month of free access to the Digster Africa application, in order to discover and [...]