beIN Sports 2018-2019

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  1. NaBUru38

    NaBUru38 Member+

    Mar 8, 2016
    Las Canteras, Uruguay
    Club:
    Club Nacional de Football
    BeIn USA will lose WTA coverage in 2019.
     
  2. TheAnswer1313

    TheAnswer1313 Member+

    Dec 12, 2007
    Charleston, WV
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Italy
    Bein is toast lol
     
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  3. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    i don't know if beIN is toast.
    They just signed a multi - year agreement with Dish and Sling.
     
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  4. QPR Kevin H

    QPR Kevin H BigSoccer Supporter

    May 23, 2001
    Silver Spring, MD
    Club:
    Queens Park Rangers FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ireland Republic
    beIN's future could be as a primarily streaming outlet. Upping their own platform and app would help. But they could keep selling to Fubo, Sling, etc. They'd want to get back on DTV Now though.
     
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  5. alexolympiacos

    Mar 5, 2010
    Club:
    Olympiakos Piraeus
    Sad news. Streaming wise, they were awesome. 9-10 hours of commercial free coverage of the premier 5’s and premier mandatories.

    Tennis channel will never do this for free.

    To be fair, the majority of their live streaming is awesome: full MotoGP coverage, full MotoAmerica coverage, and overflow Spanish, French and Turkish league matches.
     
  6. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

    This is a thread where people apparently love to bash beIN and never give them any credit.

    Didn't you get the memo?
    ;)
     
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  7. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    Maybe.

    But GolTV lasted a lot longer than I though it would.
     
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  8. KensingtonSC

    KensingtonSC Still Lazy After All These Years

    FC Vaduz / Philadelphia Union
    Jan 7, 2010
    Andalusia, PA
    Club:
    FC Vaduz
    beIN is good for some things, but it's mostly a very flawed network. Strange programming choices, streaming being an enormous pain in the ass and not working half the time, plus no on demand streaming available, and using extremely inadequate commentators when the perfectly fine world feed was available were some of the biggest complaints, and these are very valid complaints. Something they did well was pick up the CONCACAF US away qualifiers. Outside of the commentary, they do well with the CONMEBOL qualifiers and the Copa America.

    Not everything they do is bad, but I'm not giving them a pass on things they should do better with after this many years.
     
  9. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Fancy Title Here

    Apr 10, 1999
    Columbus
    Club:
    Columbus Crew
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It may only be on one or two outlets, but GolTV hasn't died yet.
     
  10. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    It wasn't until yesterday that I noticed it's no longer on FiOS.
     
  11. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    I can say that about every Network.
    And I mostly read about the bad things around here.
     
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  12. beInSchwartz

    beInSchwartz Member

    Aug 20, 2012
    Club:
    ABC Natal
    They've skimped on talent, streaming infrastructure, and executives. They've not gotten better since going to air. ******** them tbh.
     
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  13. HDSports

    HDSports Member

    Aug 30, 2005
    I did see that Tennis Channel acquired the WTA tournaments in 2019, but when the bein-WTA agreement was announced in 2018, it was stated to be for five years. What happened?
     
  14. HDSports

    HDSports Member

    Aug 30, 2005
    Never mind.... I came upon a NY Times article that rxplained what happened. Main points for those interested:

    WTA remains on beIN outside the USA (where they have more channels to provide exposure) but were not happy with USA TV coverage. WTA took back the US rights by mutual agreement, which were then bid on by ESPN and Amazon, as well as winner Tennis Channel, but they went with TC because the other two bidders would be primarily streaming. They were promised equal coverage with the men's tour as part of the deal.
     
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  15. NaBUru38

    NaBUru38 Member+

    Mar 8, 2016
    Las Canteras, Uruguay
    Club:
    Club Nacional de Football
    Some say that BeIn would air delayed soccer matches over live tennis matches.
     
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  16. Gyro62

    Gyro62 Member

    Jan 1, 2017
    Bad news, both BeIN channel number have been removed on DIRECTV.
    Going to miss Messi magic.
     
  17. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    This is why literally every Serie A fan I know is happy that ESPN snapped-up the rights. Hope La Liga takes the same path one day.
     
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  18. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    Speaking of looking amateurish, if you are going to post people's tweet at the bottom of the screen during your highlight shows then maybe you should fact-check them first. Not doing so is a really good way to spread misinformation, assuming anyone is watching.
     
  19. HomietheClown

    HomietheClown Member+

    Dusselheim FC 1971
    Sep 4, 2010
    Club:
    --other--
    To be fair I assume all tweets and social media are opinions and crazy fake news anyway.

    That is why it is social media.
     
  20. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    There's a difference between sharing opinions (even if they're a bit silly) versus blindly sharing data on a certain club's goal drought that is off by nearly a factor of 2, imo. :cautious:
     
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  21. Lovac1

    Lovac1 Member

    Jun 6, 2012
    Was it supposed to be a joke? Sometime the fans will make jokes about opposing teams that are somewhat exaggerated but usually it's obvious.
     
  22. EvanJ

    EvanJ Member+

    Manchester United
    United States
    Mar 30, 2004
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Some social media comes from research and can be useful information that is not available outside social media. Some social media is wrong, but not all social media is inaccurate or worthless. My tweets about rare events in sports at twitter.com/EvanJ3535 aren't worthless.

    Yes. For example, a newspaper editorial would never say there have been 100 presidents because that's false, not an opinion.
     
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  23. bostonsoccermdl

    bostonsoccermdl Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 3, 2002
    Denver, CO
    I could be wrong here (so please correct me if needed,) but I was under the impression BeIn outbid the major US sports networks for rights to the the last cycles away U.S. qualifiers.
    Assumming the U.S. networks did bid, how is Bein winning them a good thing?

    Most people aren't going to pay just to get these., and it forces people to search around for shoddy and unreliable streams, or call around for a local sports bar that has BeIn and is willing to show it.

    Again, assumming our domestic networks attempted to pick up the rights, having BeIn out of the equation is a good thing. They were an annoyance.
     
  24. drt2k3

    drt2k3 Member

    Jul 1, 2005
    Wilmington, NC
    Club:
    Wilmington H.
    Bein did get those away qualifiers off of PPV and closed circuit
     
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  25. bostonsoccermdl

    bostonsoccermdl Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 3, 2002
    Denver, CO
    So to clarify, were our domestic networks also competing to get these also? Or does the fact they were PPV and closed circuit mean they werent? (sorry, just trying to learn here.)
     

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