Exchange of sports packages

Arab sports events

International sports events

Sports events rights owned by ASBU

  Exchange of sports packages

ASBU members participate on a regular basis in a weekly sports exchange scheduled to take place on Saturdays and Mondays.

Part of the members prepare their items for the week on Thursday and Friday to be pooled in the Saturday package for the Mideast and Gulf areas, while the remaining members submit theirs on Saturdays and Sundays to make up the Monday package for the Maghreb region.

ASBU members also provide within their daily news exchanges some sports items to be presented all along the week whenever a sports event takes place.

The two (2) weekly sports exchanges recorded positive results during the period extending from 1/1 to 31/8/2002, after a decreasing trend noticed during 2000 and 2001.

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  Arab sports events

  ASBU Coordinates with its member-organizations the coverage, both collective and bilateral, of Arab Sports events in such away as to make it possible for all members to receive them in the best possible conditions and to broadcast them all over the Arab world. 

  The list of major sports events covered in 2002 is as follows:

Volley-Ball Arab Clubs Championship (Jordan: 28/11/2001 – 4/4/2002)

Great Sport Festival (Tripoli /Libya: 22-24/1/2002) 

Gulf Football Tournament (Saudi Arabia: 16-30/1/2002)

Gulf Volley-Ball Champion-Clubs’ tournament (Bahrain: 9-15/2/2002) 

Arab Football Winner-Cup’s Clubs Championship (Tunis: 26/2 – 10/3/2002) 

GCC Football Champion-Clubs’ Cup (Bahrain: 11-20/3/2002)

GCC Basket-ball Champion-clubs’ tournament (Qatar: 19-21/4/2002)

Qatar Football Cup Final and the Emir Cup Final (Qatar: 10/5/2002 and 24/5/2002)

The Emir Football Cup Final and the heir apparent Cup Final (Kuwait: 6/5/2002 and 28/5/2002)

UAE State President’s Football Cup Final (UEA: 12/6/2002)

Bahrain Heir Apparent’s Football Cup Final and Bahrain King’s Cup Final (Bahrain: 3/6/2002 and 20/6/2002)

King Abdallah II Basket-ball’s Cup Final (Jordan: 20-28/8/2002)

Bahrain International Chess Tournament (2-19/10/2002)

Football Freindly match: Salimya (Kuwait) vs Alahly (Egypt) (Kuwait: 25/10/2002)

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  International sports events

  ASBU has pruchased the coverage-rights of major international sports events like the World Football Cup, the Summer Olympic Games and the African Nations’ Cup Football Championships, enabling thus all ASBU members to cover such events with Arab commentators directly from the stadiums where they take place. 

  Some of the world competitions covered so far are: 

World Football Cup: Spain 1982  World Football Cup: Mexico 1986  World Football Cup: Italy 1990  World Football Cup: U.S.A 1994  World Football Cup: France 1998  Summer Olympic Games: Seoul 1988  Summer Olympic Games: Barcelona 1992  Summer Olympic Games: Atlanta 1996  Summer Olympic Games: Sydney 2000  African Nations’ Cup: Tunis 1994  African Nations’ Cup: South Africa 1996  African Nations’ Cup: Burkina Faso 1998  African Nations’ Cup: Nigeria-Ghana 2000  African Nations’ Handball Championship: Morocco 2000  Asian Football Club’s Championship 2002/2003  Western Asia Tournament: Kuwait 2002  Asian Nations Football cup-Under 17: UAE 2002  U-20 Asian Nations Football Cup: Qatar 2002  EURO’2004 Qualifying Matches    World Handball Cup-Portugal 2003

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  Sports events rights owned by ASBU

  ASBU owns the rights to cover the following events: 

Arab Football Championships (from 1998 to 2003) 

Summer Olympic Games ( 2000, 2004 and 2008) 

Copa America (from 1999 to 2004) 

South American World Cup Qualifiers (for WFC 2002) 

World Handball Cup (France 2001) 

World Handball Cup (Portugal 2003)

Arab Football Championships: (from 1998 to 2003) 

ASBU owns the transmission-rights of several football Championships within the Arab region and without for a period of five years (1998-2003), of which, in particular: 

Arab Champions’ Cup: 5 seasons (from 1998 to 2003)  Arab Cup Winners’ Cup: 4 seasons (from 1999 to 2003)  Arab Super Cup: 5 seasons (1999 - 2003)  Super Arab National Teams’ Cup: 2001

Summer Olympic Games Finals: 2000 - 2004 and 2008 

ASBU owns the rights to broadcast (on a long-term contract basis) within the Arab region the transmission rights of the Olympic games starting with Sydney 2000 and onwards to the 2008 Games. 

Latin American Football Cup: Copa America (from 1999 to 2003) 

ASBU has acquired the rights to broadcast in the Arab region three successive sessions of the Copa America, namely 1999, 2001. 

2002 World Football Cup South American Qualifiers 

The Arab States Broadcasting Union acquired the Radio and Television Broadcasting Rights of the 2002 World Cup South American Qualifiers throughout the Arab territory. The qualifying rounds start from March 2000 until November 2001, and comprise 90 matches with the participation of ten national teams the most famous of which are Brazil, Argentina, Columbia, Uruguay and Peru. 

Asian Football Events for Clubs and Nations (from 2000 to 2004) 

The Arab States Broadcasting Union has acquired the Broadcasting Television Rights for the following Asian Football Tournaments from 2000 to 2004. 

National Events 

Asian Cup Final 2000 (Lebanon)  Asian Cup Final 2004 (China)  Final Asian World Cup Qualifying Round 2001  Final Asian Olympic Football Tournament Qualifying Round 2003   Asian U19’s 2000, 2002 and 2004  Asian U16’s 2000, 2002 and 2004  Asian Women’s Championships 2001 and 2003

Club Events

Asian Super Cups   Asian Club Championships  Asian Cup Winners’ Cup Championships   Asian Champions League

Men’s World Handball Cup (2003) 

The ASBU has acquired the broadcasting rights of the Men’s World Handball Cup which shall took place in Portugal from 20/1 to 2/2/2003, with the participation of the following 7 Arab National Teams: 

Saudi Arabia 
Kuwait 
Qatar
Egypt 
Tunisia 
Algeria 
Morroco 

 

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