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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

Athletics

Tennis

Motor SPORTS

BASKETBALL

VOLLEY BALL

  • 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.

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

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

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.

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