BeIN Sports (Middle East TV channel)

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Al Jazeera Sports (Template:Lang-ar) is a popular Arabic-language sports channel launched in November 2003 by the well-known Al Jazeera network. It has quickly grown and become the most popular sports channel in the Middle East, and has covered a wide range of major sporting events, such as the UEFA European Football Championship and the Summer Olympics.

Al Jazeera Sports also owns the exclusive broadcasting rights in the Middle East for major football leagues, like the Spanish La Liga and the Italian Serie A.

Al Jazeera Sports is based in Qatar, and is based in the same complex in Doha at TV Roundabout.

The current general manager of Al Jazeera Sports is Nasser Al Khelaifi

Channels

Al Jazeera Sport currently has 10 sister channels:Al Jazeera Sports 2, Al Jazeera Sports +1, Al Jazeera Sports +2, Al Jazeera Sports +3 and Al Jazeera Sports +4 ,Al Jazeera Sports +5 ,Al Jazeera Sports +6, Al Jazeera Sports +7, Al Jazeera Sports +8, & Al Jazeera Sports HD.

to cover UEFA Champions League

Events

Notable events which Al Jazeera Sports and its sister channels have broadcasting rights to include:

Football

• UEFA European Championship until 2016

• UEFA Champions League (starting season 2009/2010)
• Italian Serie A
• Spanish La Liga
• French Ligue 1
• Dutch Eredivise
• Turkish Turkcell Süper Lig
• Argentine League

• UEFA Cup = Europa League
• UEFA Super Cup
• English FA Cup
• English League Cup
• German Cup
• Spanish Cup without FINAL
• Turkish Cup
• Greek Football Cup
• French Cup
• French League cup

Athletics

• ÅF Golden League
• IAAF World Athletics Final
• Olympics

Tennis

• Tournoi de Roland-Garros French Open

Motor SPORTS

• MotoGP
• Superbike World Championship
• Speedcar Series

BASKETBALL

• NBA
• NBA TV rights starting October 2009
• NBA Playoffs
• EuroLeague
• FIBA World Championship

VOLLEY BALL

• Italian Volleyball League
• Volleyball World League

• 2010 World cup Qualification Matches
• Pre Seasons Friendlies

UEFA Champions League

Al Jazeera Sports pulled off a major coup at the start of 2008 by winning the rights for the UEFA Champions League for three seasons starting from season 2009-2010. The rights were previously with ART Sport.

After seasons and seasons of exclusively airing the UEFA Champions League, ART now loses those rights to Aljazeera Sport Channel. Aljazeera won those rights and for the UEFA cup for at least the next three seasons from 2009 to 2012.

Ayman Jadah, Al Jazeera's General Manager, said: “this is a major development for us. Right now, we have about one million subscribers. We are looking at a figure of three million subscribers in the next two years,”

Al Jazeera beat off competition from ART, Orbit, Showtime and Abu Dhab to secure the rights. The bid figure was not revealed.

In Qatar

Al Jazeera Sports was the first sports channel to be launched from Qatar. It has broadcasted events held in Qatar like the 2006 Asian Games, the Losail leg of the MotoGP, Qatari League, The Emir Cup, Heir Apparent Cup and also FIFA World Cup qualifying matches of Qatar.

Al Jazeera Sport Analysts

Since the launching of the channel in November 2003 Al Jazeera Sports have numbers of sports analyst in all the championships they air

• Sami Al Jaber: Euro 2008
• Arsène Wenger: Euro 2008
• Sam Allardyce: Euro 2008
• Peter Reid: Euro 2008
• David O'Leary: Euro 2008
• Paulo Futre: Euro 2008
• Rabah Madjer: SuperLiga, Euro 2008
• Tarak Dhiab: La Liga, Euro 2008
• Francisco Buyo: La Liga, Euro 2008
• Cesare Maldini: Serie A, Euro 2008
• Alessandro Altobelli: Serie A
• Nabil Maaloul: Serie A
• Nawaf Al-Temyat: AFC Champions League

Also number of retired players and coaches become guests in the channel programs

• Aldair: Serie A
• Benoit Cauet: Serie A
• Terry Venables: La Liga

Frequency's

Al Jazeera Sports has many frequency's on different satellites :

• Nilesat (101/102):

- Frequency: 12284.

- Polarization: Vertical.

- Symbol Rate: 27500.

- FEC: 3/4.

Channel Stars

• Ayman Jadah: Commentator
• Yousef Saif: Commentator
• Rabah Madjer: Football Analyst
• Said Aouita: Olympic Games Analyst
• Jamal Al Sharif: Professional Analyst
• Hisham Al Khalsi: Commentator
• Karim Alami: Tennis Analyst
• Al Akhdar Barish: Commentator
• Tarak Dhiab: Football Analyst
• Leila Smati: Sports Presenter
• Sa'ad Al-Houti: Football Analyst
• Nazar Al Akhal: Analyst
• Ali Muhammad Ali: Commentator
• George Abu Faisal: Commentator
• Mohamed Habib Ben Ali: Commentator
• Hamad Jassim: Analyst
• Khalid Jassim: Presenter

External links

• Official Site Template:Ar icon
• Watch Aljazeerasport Online Template:Fr icon