beIN Sport about to change Cdn football tv landscape?
beIN Sport - owned by a Qatar group that also owns Al-Jazeera has gotten the North American rights for la Liga, Serie A, Ligue 1 & South American WC qualifers.
They are launching a new network in the US:
http://www.beinsport.tv/
In Canada, with CRTC, it won't be that easy. So. there are talks that beIN Sport will buy a stake in TLN and likely rebrand Euroworld Sport in order to be able show the season opening matches. With no rights to Ligue 1 & Serie A, only thing left for EWS is FIFA sublicensed rights from CBC. Basically, they will be showing Fox Soccer Report 24/7.
CanadaSoccer TV says he will have more info on Monday:
https://twitter.com/CanadaSoccerTV/s...59153604952064
Score's main soccer producer has also just left for..?
http://canadiansportsfan.wordpress.c...ave-the-score/
Partnering with GOLtv Canada is also an option for beIN Sport.
Down the road when EPL rights come up for renewal, beIN Sport puts Rogers and their Sportsnet World franchise in a quandry.
So the French season starts this weekend, then la Liga on the 18th and Serie A on the 25th and company that owns the english language rights in Canada still doesn't have a channel to broadcast them on. Do you think they will get something done in time or will miss the start of the seasons?
TV5 is the only option for now for French matches. For the rest, apparently, beIN is still in talks with the likes of TLN & GolTV.
I hope this means the quality of broadcasts will improve, cuz the quantity surely won't. At least not quantity of live telecasts. Ligue 1, Serie A and La Liga matches are played at the same time so it kinda sucks that one channel tries to show all 3 leagues.
Al-Jazeera provides the best news coverage in the world so I'm hoping the soccer coverage will be of a higher standard than what we've gotten used to.
Andrew, New York City
I don't understand why they can't PPV matches. Is this a CRTC thing?Originally Posted by amacpher
Foreign owned companies are not allowed to have channels in Canada. They need to partner up with a Canadian channel or sub licence the matches.
I don't care who carries it as long as it's in HD. My television provider still doesn't have Gol TV in HD. You can easily see any game you want for free on the internet so HD is the only thing that makes it worth paying for.
"The fear of seeing Ronald McDonald’s picture every day drives me on"
- Simeon Jackson
FSR went off the air last Thursday. EWS is now stuck showing some highlight package of old World Cups 24/7 with commercial breaks for Food show ads on TLN...this **** needs to get fixed asap.
"We are back bitches" - Adolf Hitler.
Yeah, I was wondering where the Ligue 1 matches on EWS went. Now I know.
FSR got a facelift and a name change but its basically still the same show (with some improvements that I'm happy to see).
Andrew, New York City
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