Saudi competition body permanently cancels beIN licence, issues $2.7m fine

[mdingwall]

Saudi competition body permanently cancels beIN licence, issues $2.7m fine

Saudi Arabian competition authorities have permanently cancelled the licence of Qatar-based pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports and issued a fine of SAR10m (€2.34m/$2.67m) for what they claim are…

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[seturdaysanny]

Box ticking to get Newcastle ?

 

[TimzRFudz]

Box ticking to get Newcastle ?

More to do with the proxy wars going on in the region. KSA isn’t particularly chummy with Qatar just now.

 

[Dougiethebear]

What about keys and gray

 

[Coisty09]

Looks like the Saudi’s are ready to use their very deep pockets to take on the Qataris.

 

[AnglianBear]

What about keys and gray

Moving to Rangers TV mate. Then we are going to have a celebrity tag team wrestling tournament. Keys & Gray up against the dhim whitted Stewart & Sutton.

 

[Dougiethebear]

Moving to Rangers TV mate. Then we are going to have a celebrity tag team wrestling tournament. Keys & Gray up against the dhim whitted Stewart & Sutton.

You’d have to keep an eye on hairy hands

 

[Captain_Buns]

What about keys and gray

Got a WhatsApp message from a mate who’s ITK that they are going to be fronting up the new look RTV.

 

[Captain_Buns]

Looks like the Saudi’s are ready to use their very deep pockets to take on the Qataris.

Take them on at what?

BeIN Sports is a rip off unless all you’re interested in watching is EPL. Saying that I hope UAE doesn’t block it again.

 

[Muay Bouk]

Take them on at what?

BeIN Sports is a rip off unless all you’re interested in watching is EPL. Saying that I hope UAE doesn’t block it again.

BEin is what the Rangers games are on over here in Australia, we could all move to RTV i suppose but then we would need decent internet speeds which in Australia is not happening anytime soon.

 

[lou riccios chipshop]

Is it not that BEIN have the legal rights in the area and the Saudis are stealing the content?

 

[BonessBear90]

Is it not that BEIN have the legal rights in the area and the Saudis are stealing the content?

That was my understanding as well. Think they always did but the qataris 'turned a blind eye' as they knew Saudi is too powerful against a country like qatar. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out, especially if saudi qualify for 2022 WC

 

[El Mas Loco]

Looks like the Saudi’s are ready to use their very deep pockets to take on the Qataris.

The Qataris aren’t short of a few bob either.

 

[Sandbear]

Saudis being cünts , just another normal day then.

 

[Burgos St Bear]

This has at least something to do with BeIN content being pirated. In Asia you could buy a $30 software licence from Alibaba for an app that streamed the entire TV channel content for about 50 odd countries with most of the sport content hijacked from BeIN.

 

[SuperGers07]

They were stealing Bein and calling it BeoutQ