The Qatari “BN Sports” group announced that its sports channels will broadcast 22 matches without encryption in the Middle East and North Africa during the Qatar 2022 World Cup, which starts on Sunday, according to what I said to Agence France-Presse on Friday, quoting a spokesman for the media group.
Two days before the start of the first World Cup in an Arab country, a spokesman for the "BN Sport" group, which owns exclusive rights to the World Cup in the Middle East and North Africa, said: "We will broadcast 22 live matches via open channels, including the opening match between Qatar and Ecuador on Sunday."
BN Sports will broadcast 22 out of 64 matches on the unencrypted sports channels of the Qatari group, which is more than a third of the total number of 2022 World Cup matches, while the other matches will be transmitted on encrypted channels.
4 Arab countries are participating in the 2022 World Cup, which is Qatar, the host team in Group A, Morocco in Group F, Tunisia in Group D, and Saudi Arabia in Group C.
In the 2018 World Cup, which was held in Russia, the BN Sports Network transmitted a number of matches without encryption, which it also did in a number of sports tournaments that it owns exclusive broadcasting rights to in the Middle East and North Africa region, such as the World Cup, the African Nations Cup and the African Cup of Nations. The Arabs for the teams that took place in Qatar in late 2021.