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 sports was also banned inside saudi arabia. but then a few weeks later what you saw was the emergence of a new website called beoth that was being promoted by senior royal advisers
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.
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?
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 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
world for the middle east and also a lot of the global south, for example, indonesia is a big market for sports. and what happened was in 2017 when there was a blockade imposed on qatar, what also happened, and this was imposed by saudi arabia, i might add, that sports company was banned inside saudi arabia but a few weeks later what you saw emerging was a new website that was being promoted by senior royal advisers on twitter like someone who was accused of helping orchestrate the murder of the journalist jamal khashoggi. helping orchestrate the murder of thejournalistjamal khashoggi. and the journalist jamal khashoggi. and this thejournalistjamal khashoggi. and this service is offering the sports of ring that the other sports company was offering. including the premier league? including the premier league? including the premier league. the sports company