BeIn Sports has 2.5 million French subs

French sport channel BeIn Sport hopes to reach the threshold of three million subscribers when the European football championship will start in 2016.

Talking to French newspaper Le Monde, Yousef Al-Obaidly, president of BeIn Sports France, said the channel currently has 2.5 million paying subscribers. At the end of 2014, the subscriber count van two million.

BeIn Sports France has been active for three years on the French market and is proving to be a formidable competitor to Canal+ by acquiring a large number of live sports rights including games from the French Ligue 1 competition as well as the Champions League.

K-Vision to offer beIN Sports in Indonesia

Indonesia’s recently launched pay-DTH platform, K-Vision, has added Qatar-based sports channels beIN Sports 1 and beIN Sports 2 to its line-up. BeIN Sports chairman, Nasser Al Khelaifi, says the broadcaster has enjoyed rapid growth in Indonesia over the last eight months with both channels already carried on rival pay-TV operators – Orange TV and NexMedia. “We’re very pleased to expand our presence on one of the most exciting and ambitious new pay-television platforms in the country,” he added.

beIN Sports 1 will broadcast dual language coverage of the Barclays Premium League in Bahasa and English, and live studio shows presented by media celebrities in Donna Agnesia and Tio Nugroho. It will also air other football matches including from Italian Serie A, Bundesliga, French Ligue 1, Scottish Professional Football League, Major League Soccer and the Brazilian national league.

beIN Sport 2 will also feature live matches from the Barclays Premier League, Serie A, Bundesliga and French Ligue 1, in addition to events from the Olympic Council Asia, 17th Asian Games INCHEON 2014, ATP 250 tennis events, International Baseball Federations, rugby events and Spanish Basketball League.