beIN Series (Middle East TV network)

beIN Series is a set television networks launched on 1 November 2016, owned by beIN Media Group and broadcast on beIN direct-broadcast satellite services in the MENA region, and in Turkey through the Digiturk system, which beIN purchased in 2015 and rebranded as beIN Series on 13 January 2016. The networks feature mainly one-hour drama and dramedy series.[3]

beIN SERIES
Logo of the channel starting 2017.
Launched7 November 2016 (2016-11-07)
13 January 2016 (Turkey)
NetworkbeIN Channels Network
Owned bybeIN Media Group
Picture format1080i HDTV
Sloganbe Amazed
CountryQatar
LanguageArabic
English
Turkish
Broadcast areaMiddle East and North Africa
Turkey
HeadquartersDoha, Qatar
ReplacedDiziMax (Turkey)
Sister channel(s)beIN Series (Turkish TV network)
beIN Sports
beIN Max
beIN Movies
beJunior
Websitewww.bein.net
Availability
Satellite
beIN (MENA)beIN Series 1:
Channel 151 (HD)
beIN Series 2:
Channel 152 (HD)
DigiturkbeIN Series Sci-Fi:
Channel 2 (SD) Channel 302 (HD)
beIN Series Comedy:
Channel 4 (SD) Channel 304 (HD)
beIN Series Vice:
Channel 5 (SD) Channel 305 (HD)
beIN Series Drama:
Channel 6 (SD) Channel 306 (HD)
Streaming media
beIN Connect[1]
Digiturk Diledigin Yerde (Turkey)[2]

The networks of beIN Series license content from American production companies, including ABC Studios, Warner Bros. Television and Sony Pictures Television. Series on the network are dubbed or subtitled with Arabic or Turkish, depending on the region.

History

In 2016, the company had launched children channel called CBeebies[4] and ion July of the same year had signed a deal with the AMC Networks International to broadcast The Terror, The Night Manager and Fear of the Walking Dead.[5]

In 2017, beIN Series had signed a contract with CBS Studios International and The CW which will allow the company to air such series as MacGyver and Bull, while CBS All-Access will provide beIN with The Good Fight and The Late Late Show with James Corden.[6] The same year, the company had signed a deal with Eccho Rights to air New Bride, Winter Sun and Heart of the City on its beIN Drama HD1 channel.[7]

In 2018, the channel had partnered with BBC Studios to broadcast BBC Earth and kiddie channel CBeebies through Digiturk.[8]

gollark: The ALLEGED goal.
gollark: The US also has massively broad effectively unregulated mass surveillance, which is highly bees.
gollark: There's interesting content about basically every topic you might like, people to talk to who are sometimes not terrible, and you can actually be taken seriously if you know some things.
gollark: Most of it, anyway.
gollark: The internet is great for children ish.

References
  1. beIN Connect
  2. Dilediğin Yerde Uygulaması
  3. "beIN مسلسلات جديدة على قنوات" [beIN new series on channels]. Al-Arab News Channel. 24 January 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  4. Vivarelli, Nick (31 March 2016). "MipTV: Miramax Owner beIN Media Group Launches Kiddie Channel in Middle East". Variety.
  5. Hopewell, John (26 July 2016). "AMC Networks Launches Five Channels on Miramax Owner BeIN in Middle East, North Africa". Variety.
  6. Clarke, Stewart (8 August 2017). "BeIN Takes CBS and CW Shows to the Middle East". Variety.
  7. "beIN Acquires Three Turkish Dramas From Eccho Rights". Todo TV. 11 June 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  8. Vivarelli, Nick (1 August 2018). "BBC Studios, Qatar's beIN Pact to Produce Content for Middle East and Turkey". Variety. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
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