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In Brief: BeIn Sport, Sony Pictures, UPC
May 22, 2012 09.18 Europe/London By Robert Briel
--Al Jazeera’s new French sports channels BeIn Sport 1 and 2 are rapidly announcing carriage contracts, such as with cabler Numericable and Orange TV.
--Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has inked three new distribution deals in the Middle East region, with local broadcasters in Egypt, Qatar and Dubai. The multi-year deals license broadcast rights to feature films from the Sony Pictures library across a wide variety of genres and decades.
For the first time, SPT has made content distribution deals with Al Rayyan in Qatar and the Egyptian-based television network, Rotana, which will broadcast the features on its multi channel platform. Meanwhile in Dubai, SPT has confirmed a new distribution deal with national broadcaster Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI), who will air their selection on Dubai One.
--UPC Netherlands is adding the DanceTrippin music channel to its line-up. The operator also made some channels in its adult entertainment offer, replacing Playboy TV with Dutch-based soft Passie TV and Hustler TV with hardcore Passie XXX.
May 22, 2012 09.18 Europe/London By Robert Briel
--Al Jazeera’s new French sports channels BeIn Sport 1 and 2 are rapidly announcing carriage contracts, such as with cabler Numericable and Orange TV.
--Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has inked three new distribution deals in the Middle East region, with local broadcasters in Egypt, Qatar and Dubai. The multi-year deals license broadcast rights to feature films from the Sony Pictures library across a wide variety of genres and decades.
For the first time, SPT has made content distribution deals with Al Rayyan in Qatar and the Egyptian-based television network, Rotana, which will broadcast the features on its multi channel platform. Meanwhile in Dubai, SPT has confirmed a new distribution deal with national broadcaster Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI), who will air their selection on Dubai One.
--UPC Netherlands is adding the DanceTrippin music channel to its line-up. The operator also made some channels in its adult entertainment offer, replacing Playboy TV with Dutch-based soft Passie TV and Hustler TV with hardcore Passie XXX.