Fight Sports has acquired the rights to Manny Pacquiao’s upcoming return to the ring as he takes on on the undefeated Errol Spence Jr for the World Welterweight Championship on August 21st from Las Vegas, USA. Pacquiao, one of the best fighters of this generation and an 8-division World Champion, is a guaranteed first ballot […]
Eutelsat’s sophisticated Quantum 3.5 tonne satellite should launch on July 30th subject to any last minute weather or technical hitches. The current timetable calls for the launch to happen in a window which opens at 21.00 until 22.30 UTC onboard an Ariane 5 rocket from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. The satellite, built […]
Comcast Technology Solutions, a division of Comcast Cable that provides media and entertainment technology to content providers, operators, and advertisers, has announced that its Cloud TV Suite serves the back-end platform for OSN’s video entertainment service, OSN Streaming App. OSN is an entertainment network provider across MENA, offering an extensive range of exclusive and original […]
STARZPLAY, the MENA SVoD service, has announced the expansion of its sports portfolio with the signing of a carriage deal with Premier Sports to exclusively stream the upcoming Lions Rugby Tour in the MENA region. Premier Sports acquired the broadcast rights to the 2021 British & Irish Lions Tour of South Africa in the MENA […]
Eutelsat’s sophisticated Quantum satellite, built by Airbus at Toulouse, is on its way to French Guiana for final integration ahead of a planned launch later in July from Kourou. Eutelsat’s Quantum satellite is a revolutionary step forward for commercial satellites, offering very high customisation and flexibility. It will supply services with unprecedented in-orbit reconfigurability in […]
Further expanding its global footprint, ODMedia has announced the opening of a new office to serve the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Based in Dubaï, the new office is headed up by Fatme Kayed. The MENA branch joins a growing roster of international offices for the Dutch content services and processing company, including […]
Al Yah Satellite Communications (which trades as YahSat) and is fully owned by Abu Dhabi’s $243 billion sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment, has hired Abu Dhabi’s Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, First Abu Dhabi Bank and HSBC Holdings as joint lead managers, according to an advertisement in local newspaper the National. YahSat currently has services covering […]
UEFA and beIN Media Group have announced a new media rights agreement that will see beIN Sports, beIN’s flagship sports network, exclusively broadcast UEFA’s premium club competitions across the 24 country region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) for the period 2021/22 to 2023/24. The 3-year major renewal includes rights to the UEFA […]
beIN Sports will broadcast the UEFA Champions League final and the UEFA Europa League final live and exclusively to its viewers and subscribers across the 23 countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from Morocco in the west to Oman in the east – and every country in between. The UEFA Europa League […]
beIN Media Group has announced a multi-year content deal with Sony Pictures Television covering the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Turkey. The deal will bring some of the biggest Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) feature films including exclusive first and second window rights to beIN’s entertainment channels in MENA such as beIN Movies and […]