8/8/2012 3:08pm - Uplink Activity Report - 45 changes
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So does anyone update or do corrections to the Dish Channel Chart?
I believe it's updated automatically from the uplink report. What corrections are necessary?
Not just soccer
Partial quote from article by the infamous New York Post sports media critic Phil Mushnick from last Friday:
So who, currently, is the biggest player for American TV sports rights? Fox? ESPN? CBS? NBC? Turner?
Nope. It’s Al Jazeera, owned by the fabulously oil-rich country of Qatar.
To feed its new beIN sports network, Al Jazeera has been hurling barrels of money for rights to the world’s biggest soccer leagues, and it’s eager to buy into all sports — here, there and everywhere.
In order to enter the U.S. market, Al Jazeera, an international rights specialist this week told us, is willing to pay cable operators to clear beIN. In other words, Al Jazeera doesn’t want to be paid by operators, to make room for its sports goods it’ll pay them!
“The players here for big league soccer — Fox, ESPN — are being blown away by Al Jazeera,” the specialist said. “Remember, they’re not competing against a corporation, but a government, and one with more money than it can spend.”
Qatar, despite its blistering heat and inaccessibility, in 2010 won 2022 World Cup soccer rights because it made an offer that drained the senses of FIFA. Governed by Sunni Islamic law, Qatar also is known for systemic repression of women.
Would big league U.S. teams or leagues sell Al Jazeera some or all of its TV rights?
“There would be political issues. And there’s a competitive advantage to a bidder that’s not a company but a country,” the specialist said. “ Yet, where money can talk, money talks. It already has.”
Phil Mushnick: NBC cutaways during timely action ruin Olympic water polo coverage - NYPOST.com
Partial quote from article by the infamous New York Post sports media critic Phil Mushnick from last Friday:
So who, currently, is the biggest player for American TV sports rights? Fox? ESPN? CBS? NBC? Turner?
Nope. It’s Al Jazeera, owned by the fabulously oil-rich country of Qatar.
To feed its new beIN sports network, Al Jazeera has been hurling barrels of money for rights to the world’s biggest soccer leagues, and it’s eager to buy into all sports — here, there and everywhere.
In order to enter the U.S. market, Al Jazeera, an international rights specialist this week told us, is willing to pay cable operators to clear beIN. In other words, Al Jazeera doesn’t want to be paid by operators, to make room for its sports goods it’ll pay them!
“The players here for big league soccer — Fox, ESPN — are being blown away by Al Jazeera,” the specialist said. “Remember, they’re not competing against a corporation, but a government, and one with more money than it can spend.”
Qatar, despite its blistering heat and inaccessibility, in 2010 won 2022 World Cup soccer rights because it made an offer that drained the senses of FIFA. Governed by Sunni Islamic law, Qatar also is known for systemic repression of women.
Would big league U.S. teams or leagues sell Al Jazeera some or all of its TV rights?
“There would be political issues. And there’s a competitive advantage to a bidder that’s not a company but a country,” the specialist said. “ Yet, where money can talk, money talks. It already has.”
Phil Mushnick: NBC cutaways during timely action ruin Olympic water polo coverage - NYPOST.com
I guess the real question would be: Why would Dish NOT carry the HD feed of BeIN if Al Jazeera was willing to pay them?
