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Al-Jazeera Sports
Launched	1st November 2003
Network	Al Jazeera
Picture format	4:3, 16:9 and TWO HD channels
Slogan	The Sport is our world..and the world is our field.
Country	Qatar
Language	Arabic; English
Broadcast area	Middle East and North Africa
Headquarters	Doha, Qatar
Sister channel(s)	Al-Jazeera Sports 1; Al-Jazeera Sports 2; Al-Jazeera Sports +1; Al-Jazeera Sports +2; Al-Jazeera Sports +3; Al-Jazeera Sports +4; Al-Jazeera Sports +5; Al-Jazeera Sports +6; Al-Jazeera Sports +7; Al-Jazeera Sports +8; Al-Jazeera Sports +9; Al-Jazeera Sports +10; Al-Jazeera Sports HD1; Al-Jazeera Sports HD2; Al-Jazeera Sports News; Al-Jazeera Sports Clubs; Al-Jazeera Sports Global;
Website	ALJAZEERASPORT.net
Availability
Satellite
Nilesat , Hotbird , BADR-6	All Channels
Cable
eVision [1]	ALL Channels
Internet television
UEFA Champions League [2] Europa League [3]	All matches

Al Jazeera Sports (Arabic: الجزيرة الرياضية‎) is a popular Arabic-language sports channel launched in November 2003 by the well-known Al Jazeera network. It has quickly grown and become the most popular sports channel in the Middle East, and has covered a wide range of major sporting events, such as the UEFA European Football Championship, Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics.

Al Jazeera Sports also owns the exclusive broadcasting rights in the Middle East for major football leagues, like the Spanish La Liga and the Italian Serie A.

Al Jazeera Sports is based in Qatar, and is based in the same complex in Doha at TV Roundabout.

The current general manager of Al Jazeera Sports is Nasser Al Khelaifi

[edit] Channels

Al Jazeera Sports currently has 16 sister channels:

Also, Aljazeera Sports Offers these channels to its subscribers only free of charge

[edit] Events

Notable events which Al Jazeera Sports and its sister channels have broadcasting rights to include:

[edit] Football

[edit] Athletics

[edit] Tennis

Tournoi de Roland-Garros French Open
Tennis Masters Series (Madrid, Montreal, ........)
US Open
The Championships, Wimbledon (Wimbledon)

[edit] Motor Sports

[edit] Basketball

NBA
NBA TV broadcasts on ALJAZEERA SP+8
NBA Playoffs
EuroLeague
FIBA World Championship

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Winter Sports

Olympics

[edit] UEFA Champions League

Al Jazeera Sports pulled off a major coup at the start of 2008 by winning the rights for the UEFA Champions League for three seasons starting from season 2009-2010. The rights were previously with ART Sport.

After seasons and seasons of exclusively airing the UEFA Champions League, ART now loses those rights to Aljazeera Sport Channel. Aljazeera won those rights and for the UEFA cup for at least the next three seasons from 2009 to 2012.

Ayman Jadah, Al Jazeera's General Manager, said: “this is a major development for us. Right now, we have about one million subscribers. We are looking at a figure of three million subscribers in the next two years,”

Al Jazeera beat off competition from ART, Orbit, Showtime and Abu Dhabi to secure the rights. The bid figure was not revealed.

[edit] The Purchase of ART Sport channels

On Tuesday 24/11/2009, Al Jazeera Sports officially announced after various rumors on many web sites, the purchase of ART sports channels which includes the brand name and all sports rights held by the channel including the FIFA Competitions Rights. The announcement was made at a conference at the Ritz-Carlton, Doha, Qatar. The Purchase agreement allows the subscribers of both network to view all ART Channels and Aljazeera Channels plus ESPN, ESPN Classic and ESPN America until the 31st of December where the ART Sport Channels 1-6 will cease operation allowing aljazeera sports to become the largest sport network in the middle east and north africa region.

The agreement was welcomed by many locals as aljazeera sports as the value of sporting rights held by the channel is much more than the price paid to view them.

[edit] In Qatar

Al Jazeera Sports was the first sports channel to be launched from Qatar. It has broadcasted events held in Qatar like the 2006 Asian Games, the Losail leg of the MotoGP, Qatari League, The Emir Cup, Heir Apparent Cup and also FIFA World Cup qualifying matches of Qatar.

[edit] Al Jazeera Sport Analysts

Since the launching of the channel in November 2003 Al Jazeera Sports have numbers of sports analyst in all the championships they air

Sami Al Jaber: Euro 2008
Arsène Wenger: Euro 2008
Sam Allardyce: Euro 2008
Peter Reid: Euro 2008
David O'Leary: Euro 2008
Paulo Futre: Euro 2008
Rabah Madjer: SuperLiga, Euro 2008
Tarak Dhiab: La Liga, Euro 2008
Francisco Buyo: La Liga, Euro 2008
Cesare Maldini: Serie A, Euro 2008
Alessandro Altobelli: Serie A
Nabil Maaloul: Serie A
Nawaf Al-Temyat: AFC Champions League
Hani Al Dhabit: 2009 Arabian Gulf Cup

Also number of retired players and coaches become guests in the channel programs

[edit] Frequency's

Al Jazeera Sports has many frequency's on different satellites :

Nilesat (102):

 CHANNELS 1,2,+1,+2+,+3,+4,Global

- Frequency: 12284. - Polarization: Vertical. - Symbol Rate: 27500. - FEC: 3/4.

Nilesat 101

  CHANNELS +5,+6,+7,+8,+9,+10,JSC SPORTS NEWS

- Frequency: 11958. - Polarization: Horizontal . - Symbol Rate: 27500.

Nilesat (104):

  CHANNELS HD1,HD2,NBA TV,ESPN,ESPN CLASSIC,ESPN AMERICA,ART SPOTS 7

- Frequency: 12456. - Polarization: Vertical. - Symbol Rate: 27500.

Hotbird :

  CHANNELS +1,+2,+3,+4,+5,+6,+7,+8

- Frequency: 11296. - Polarization: Horizontal. - Symbol Rate: 27500. - FEC: 3/4.

Arabsat BADR-6:

  CHANNELS +1,+2,+3,+4,+5,+6,+7,+8

- Frequency: 12341. - Polarization: Vertical. - Symbol Rate: 27500. - FEC: 3/4.

[edit] External links

Official Site (Arabic)

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