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I haven't seen anybody mention this network before but I was flying back home from Florida on JetBlue last week and scrolling through their Direct TV channels when I came across the World Superbike championship. I was excited as I watched these the last few years when they were on Speed. This year they don't cover them.
Anyway when I got home I scanned my Time Warner Cable channels and their it was the BEIN Sports channel. Channel 278 in Huntington Beach, Ca. It covers International sports, mostly soccer. I scanned through the week looking for more Superbike racing and the Brazilian MX GP was listed. I taped it and it was great. It wasn't HD but was still very good picture quality and a full 2 hours. It had Paul Malin doing the narrating so it was in english. they play it myltiple times in case you miss one.
Just a heads up for anybody that likes to watch the Euro stuff also.
Anyway when I got home I scanned my Time Warner Cable channels and their it was the BEIN Sports channel. Channel 278 in Huntington Beach, Ca. It covers International sports, mostly soccer. I scanned through the week looking for more Superbike racing and the Brazilian MX GP was listed. I taped it and it was great. It wasn't HD but was still very good picture quality and a full 2 hours. It had Paul Malin doing the narrating so it was in english. they play it myltiple times in case you miss one.
Just a heads up for anybody that likes to watch the Euro stuff also.
Can't wait for Apple or someone to sell individual channel subscriptions.
It's the sports branch of Al Jazreera, the Qatari news network that first got really noticed in the US during the Iraq war, but hasn't been able to secure wide distribution in the US. BeIn Sport is part of their initiative to gain a better foothold here in the US by softening resistance to the Al Jazeera brand. They paid huge money to outbid the current carrier for La Liga, Ligue 1 and Serie A soccer from Spain, France and Italy, before the even had broadcast contracts with the cable carriers, which was a pain for soccer lovers without access to those leagues because the carrier hasn't negotiated a contract with BeIn Sports. I think the channel still isn't available on smaller cable providers (it isn't on ours, and we've got a pretty solid sports roster, including NBCSN and Fuel in HD).
The Qataris have dumped a ton of money in to sports initiatives, including teams (primarily high level soccer), broadcast rights, pulling motorsports events to Qatar, and not least the World Cup in 2022. I'd guess the MX Gps made there way to BeIn Sport as part of the Qatar round coming to being.
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I checked it on a whim and they were streaming Monza live at the very least, we'll see if they do the same this weekend for Donnington.
Enough said.
But that channel has pretty much sucked since they ditched the documentaries and moved to talking heads about politics all the time. I used to like the Vanguard series.
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