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Time for the media show. hello. the back pages have been dominating the front pages this week with the sale of newcastle united football club. but the premier league isn t the only part of british public life that the saudis are buying into. the independent and the evening standard can both trace their ownership back to the gulf kingdom. while over in the us, media giants like netflix and disney have had big investment from the saudis. so, does this affect the journalism we read or the television we watch? joining me to discuss that is vivienne walt, a correspondent for time magazine and fortune. areeb ullah is a journalist at middle east eye. also sanan vakil who is deputy director of the middle east and north africa programme at chatham house, and jim waterson, who is media editor at the guardian. also today, the classic american music magazine, ....
Sports was also banned inside saudi arabia. but then a few weeks later what you saw was the emergance of a new website called beoth that was being promoted by senior royal advisers on twitter, like saud al-qahtani, who was accused of helping orchestrate the murder ofjournalist jamal khashoggi who you mentioned earlier. and this service is offering the sports offering that bein sports was offering. including the premier league? including the premier league. bein sports caught wind of this. they realised that. they did some digging themselves, as well as the premier league, and they discovered that the signal that was being used to air these games originated not from a colombian and cuban consortium, which is what the saudis were claiming, but from saudi arabia, from a company called arabsat, whch is a company which is majority owned by who? the saudi government. ....
The saudi led consortium buying into newcastle football club. areeb ullah, you re from the middle eastern eye. in all the excitable coverage about these new owners in football, there s actually been much less about something we have obviously noticed on the media show, because we re a media show, which is, in the end this is a media story in a sense. tell us what are bein and beoth and how that all plays into this. so bein sports is the qatari backed sports broadcaster got the commercial rights to air premier league games and sporting events from around the world for the middle east and also a lot of the global south, for example, indonesia is a big market for bein sports. and what happened was in 2017 when there was an air, sea and land blockade imposed on qatar, which owns bein sports, what also happened, and this was imposed by saudi arabia, i might add, what also happened was bein ....
And then what happened after that is the qataris, they took this case to the world trade organization to kind of get to the bottom of why this was happening, and they took saudi arabia to the wto arbitration process and the wto then ruled in favour of saudi arabia sorry, not saudi arabia, qatar. and they accused saudi arabia of essentially not charging and prosecuting the people behind beoth. and this was a big deal for the premier league. this was why newcastle that stalled that takeover. it is a massive deal for the premier league because bein s contract, for example, is worth roughly £500 million, and that is a lot of money for the premier league. and when the newcastle deal became public, one of the first people to condemn it and also lobby the premier league and the uk government against this deal was bein ....