Category Archives: Pay TV

Saudi Sports Company rolls out SSC channels and partners with MBC to broadcast sports competitions

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 [...]

Santos Laguna finishes its agreement to broadcast its Liga MX’s matches with Fox Sports Mexico

The sports TV network Fox Sports Mexico has announced this week that it will not broadcast Mexican football club Santos Lagunas matches. The news was confirmed this last Monday, July 19th, a few days before the beginning of the Mexican Professional Football Leagues (Liga MX) Torneo Apertura 2021. The announcement means the first time a [...]

beIN SPORTS to deliver biggest coverage worldwide of the Tokyo Olympic Games 2020 with over 3,000 hours of exclusive MENA programming

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. [...]

Claro Sports strengthens 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games coverage in Latin America with Applicaster

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 events distribution in the region, [...]

OSN selects Comcast Technology Solutions for its streaming service in MENA

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 to air Tokyo Olympics across Africa

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 [...]

beIN Sports draws over 1billion viewers during UEFA Euro 2020 and COPA America 2021

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 [...]

America Movil hopes to get license to provide pay TV in Mexico before the end of this year

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+ and Universal Music Africa partner with Digster Africa

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 [...]