From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Al Jazeera Sports
Al Jazeera Sports
Al Jazeera Sports • Al Jazeera Sports +1 ( Serie A )
• Al Jazeera Sports +2 ( La Liga )
• Al Jazeera Sports +3 ( English )
• Al Jazeera Sports +4 ( Ligue 1 )
• Al Jazeera Sports +5 ( English FA Cup CARLING Cup )
• Al Jazeera Sports +6 ( Eredivisie )
• Al Jazeera Sports +7 ( Classic )
Launched 1 November 2003 • Al Jazeera Sports +8 ( US Sports )
Network Al Jazeera • Al Jazeera Sports +9 ( Africa )
• Al Jazeera Sports +10 ( English/Africa )
Picture format 4:3, 16:9 and two HD and 3D channels • Al Jazeera Sports Global (Replaced Art Sport 7)
Slogan The Sport is our world..and the world • Al Jazeera Sports HD1
is our field. • Al Jazeera Sports HD2
• Al Jazeera Sports News (New)
Country Qatar
(All other competitions broadcast on all channels)
Language Arabic Coming soon
English • Al Jazeera Sports HD3
Broadcast area Middle East and North Africa • Al Jazeera Sports HD4
• Al Jazeera Sports Clubs
Headquarters Doha, Qatar
Website Aljazeerasport.net Also, Al Jazeera Sports offers these channels to its
subscribers only for an additional cost. (not on hotbird)
Availability
• ESPN
Satellite • ESPN Classic
• ESPN America
Nilesat Frequencies
Hotbird • NBA TV
BADR-6
Cable Events
eVision Notable events which Al Jazeera Sports and its sister
channels have broadcasting rights include.
Internet television
UEFA Champions Football
League
UEFA Europa • FIFA World Cup
League • UEFA European Championship
• AFC Asian Cup
Al Jazeera Sports (Arabic: )الجزيرة الرياضيةis a popular • Africa Cup of Nations
Arabic-language sports channel launched in November • Copa America
2003 by the well-known Al Jazeera network. • CONCACAF Gold Cup
Al Jazeera Sports also owns the exclusive broadcast- • FIFA Club World Cup
ing rights in the Middle East for major football leagues, • UEFA Champions League
such as the Spanish La Liga, the French Ligue 1 and the • UEFA Europa League
Italian Serie A. Al Jazeera Sports is based in Qatar, and is • Spanish La Liga
based in the same complex in Doha at TV Roundabout. • Italian Serie A
• French Ligue 1 (until the end of season 2018/2019)
• Dutch Eredivise
Channels • Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Al Jazeera Sports currently has 16 channels. • Argentine League
• Al Jazeera Sports 1 • UEFA Super Cup
• Al Jazeera Sports 2 • Spanish Cup (Copa del Rey)
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• English FA Cup • ATP World Tour 500 series (Rotterdam, Barcelona,
• CARLING Cup Hamburg, Washington, Beijing, Tokyo, Valencia,
• Italian Cup Basel)
• German Cup • ATP World Tour 250 series (Doha, Halle, Los Angeles)
• French Cup • Barclays ATP World Tour Finals
• French League cup
• nPower Football League Motor Sports
• Saudi Zain Professional League • MotoGP
• Qatar Stars League • Superbike World Championship
• Russian Premier League • Speedcar Series
• Jordan League
• Japanese League Volleyball
• MLS
• Italian Volleyball League
• CONCACAF Champions League
• Volleyball World League
• Asian Champions League
• AFC Cup
• Super Cup
Winter Sports
• African Champions League • Winter Olympics
• African Cup League • Asian Winter Games
• African Super Cup
• Spanish Super Cup Rugby
• FA Community Shield • Six Nations Championship
• Swiss Super League • Heineken Cup
• Greek Football Cup • Aviva Premiership
• Turkish Cup (from January 2011)
•
•
UAE Presidents Cup Final
Algerian Cup Final
UEFA Champions League
• Ukrainian Cup from Semifinal Al Jazeera Sports pulled off a major coup at the start
of 2008 by winning the rights for the UEFA Champions
Basketball League starting from season 2009-2010. The rights were
• NBA previously with ART Sport. Al Jazeera also won the rights
• NBA TV for the UEFA Cup for at least the next three seasons from
• NBA Playoffs 2009 to 2012.
• EuroLeague Ayman Jadah, Al Jazeera’s General Manager, said:
• EuroCup "this is a major development for us. Right now, we have
• FIBA World Championship about one million subscribers. We are looking at a figure
• FIBA Asia Champions Cup of three million subscribers in the next two years,"
• WABA Champions Cup Al Jazeera beat off competition from ART (which they
• FIBA Asia Champions Cup later bought), Orbit, Showtime and Abu Dhabi Sports to
• Lebanese Basketball League secure the rights. The bid figure was not revealed.
Athletics The purchase of ART sports
• Olympics
• IAAF World Championships in Athletics
channels
• IAAF Golden League On Tuesday, 24 November 2009, Al Jazeera Sports offi-
• IAAF Diamond League cially announced after various rumors on many web sites
• IAAF World Junior Championships the purchase of ART sports channels, which includes the
brand name and all sports rights held by the channel,
Tennis including the FIFA competitions rights. The announce-
• French Open ment was made at a conference at the Ritz-Carlton, Doha,
• US Open Qatar. The purchase agreement allows the subscribers of
• ATP World Tour Masters 1000 (Indian Wells, Miami, both networks to view all ART channels and Al Jazeera
Monte Carlo, Rome, Madrid, Montreal, Cincinnati, channels, plus ESPN, ESPN Classic and ESPN America un-
Shanghai and Paris) til the 31st of December. At that time the ART Sports
Channels 1-6 will cease operation, allowing Al Jazeera
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2010 FIFA World Cup
Arabic channels
Tarak Dhiab Nabil Maaloul Sami Al Jaber Nawaf Al-Temyat
Arrigo Sacchi Alessandro Altobelli Badou Ezzaki Hazem Emam
Bebeto José Pekerman Luis Aragonés Arsène Wenger
Ronald de Boer Michael Laudrup Lothar Matthäus Emmanuel Amuneke
English channels
Trevor Francis Mark Hateley David Platt Sam Allardyce
Tim Sherwood Glenn Hoddle Ray Wilkins Terry Venables
Peter Reid Craig Brown Graeme Souness Iain Dowie
Ali Benarbia Gus Poyet Frank Stapleton
Euro 2008
Sami Al Jaber Rabah Madjer Tarak Dhiab Arsène Wenger
Sam Allardyce Peter Reid Francisco Buyo Paulo Futre
Cesare Maldini David O’Leary
Domestic Leagues
Cesare Maldini (Serie A) Alessandro Altobelli (Serie A) Hazem Emam (Serie A)
Tarak Dhiab (La Liga) Francisco Buyo (La Liga) Rabah Madjer (SuperLiga)
Other Competitions
Nawaf Al-Temyat (AFC Champions League)
Hani Al-Dhabit (2009 Gulf Cup of Nations)
George Weah (2010 African Cup of Nations)
Sports to become the largest sports network in the Mid- • Benoit Cauet: Serie A
dle East and North Africa.
• Antonio Cabrini: Serie A
The agreement was welcomed by many locals as Al
• Terry Venables: La Liga
Jazeera Sports as the value of sporting rights held by the
channel is much more than the price paid to view them.
Frequencies
In Qatar Al Jazeera Sports has many frequencies on different
satellites:
Al Jazeera Sports was the first sports channel to be
• • Channels: 1,2,+1,+2,+3,+4,+5
launched from Qatar. It has broadcasted events held in
• Frequency: 12284.
Qatar like the 2006 Asian Games, the Losail leg of the Mo-
• Polarization: Vertical.
toGP, Qatari League, The Emir Cup, Heir Apparent Cup
• Symbol Rate: 27500.
and also FIFA World Cup qualifying matches of Qatar.
• • Channels: +6,+7,+8,+9,+10
• Frequency: 11958.
Al Jazeera Sport Analysts • Polarization: Horizontal .
Since the launching of the channel in November 2003 Al • Symbol Rate: 27500.
Jazeera Sports have numbers of sports analyst in all the • • Channels: HD1,3D,NBA TV,ESPN,ESPN
championships they air Classic,ESPN America,ART SPORT 7
Also number of retired players and coaches become • Frequency: 12475.
guests in the channel programs • Polarization: Vertical.
• Symbol Rate: 27500.
• Aldair: Serie A
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• • Channels: HD1,HD2. • Polarization: Horizontal.
• Frequency: 12264. • Symbol Rate: 27500.
• Polarization: Horizontal. • • Channels: 1
• Symbol Rate: 27500. • Frequency: 12034.
• • Channels: +1, +2, +3, +4, +5, +6, +7, +8, +9, +10, • Polarization: Horizontal.
World Cup • Symbol Rate: 27500.
• Frequency: 11295.
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•
Polarization: Horizontal.
Symbol Rate: 27500.
External links
• • Channels: Global • Official Site (Arabic)
• Frequency: 12015. • Official Live Streaming Site (Arabic)
• Polarization: Horizontal. • Official Live Streaming Site (English)
• Symbol Rate: 27500. • Facebook Group
• • Channels: +1,+2,+3,+4,+5,+6,+7,+8,+9,+10 • TV Schedule in English
• Frequency: 12341. • TV Schedule in Spanish
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