This report analyzes the satellite pay TV market in the Arab world as of October 2015. It provides an overview of major pay TV providers in the region, including OSN, Al Majd, beIN Sports and MyHD. It examines these providers' channel offerings, package options and prices, distribution networks, and the availability of interactive and multi-screen services. The report also discusses trends in the region's pay TV market and analyzes dynamics between competitors. Appendices provide detailed lists of channels and dealers for each profiled provider.

1. Satellite Pay TV Operators in the
Arab World 2015
Arab Advisors Group
Media Strategic Research Service
October 2015
Analyst: Hiba Al Atiyat
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Table of Contents
Section I: Introduction.......................................................................................1
Section II: Pay TV Trends in the Arab World ......................................................5
Section III: The Arab Pay TV Landscape – A Comparison...................................8
Channels..............................................................................................................8
Packages & Prices ............................................................................................... 13
Dealers .............................................................................................................. 15
Interactive Services............................................................................................. 19
Multi screen platforms ......................................................................................... 20
Section IV: International Pay TV providers’ presence in the region .................21
Section V: OSN – Orbit Showtime Network.......................................................22
OSN packages and prices ..................................................................................... 22
Section VI: Al Majd.............................................................................................. 25
Al Majd package and price.................................................................................... 25
Section VII: beIN Sports ...................................................................................... 26
beIN Sports packages and price ............................................................................ 26
Section VIII: MyHD ............................................................................................. 27
MyHD packages and price .................................................................................... 27
Section IX: Pay TV Piracy in the Arab World.....................................................28
Sky ................................................................................................................... 28
Polsat ................................................................................................................ 28
NC+ .................................................................................................................. 29
Section X: Appendices ......................................................................................30
Appendix A – Pay TV Providers packages’ lists of channels..............................30
Appendix B – Pay TV Providers’ lists of dealers................................................63

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List of Exhibits
Exhibit 1: Satellite Pay TV Providers targeting the Arab World (By September
2015) .......................................................................................................... 2
Exhibit 2: Presence of pay TV providers on satellites carriers (By September
2015) .......................................................................................................... 2
Exhibit 3: Some of the Cable TV providers in the Arab region (By September
2015) .......................................................................................................... 3
Exhibit 4: Pay TV viewership in Egypt, UAE and Iraq......................................... 6
Exhibit 5: How respondents get Pay TV channels in Egypt, UAE and Iraq.......... 7
Exhibit 6: Total number of channels by language (September 2015) ................ 8
Exhibit 7: Total numbers of different types of channels (By September 2015).. 9
Exhibit 8: HD channels by Pay TV provider (By September 2015) ................... 10
Exhibit 9: Pay TV provider market share dynamics (By September 2015)....... 12
Exhibit 10: Packages and prices for beIN Sports, MyHD, Al Majd and OSN
networks (By September 2015) ................................................................ 13
Exhibit 11: Number of major dealers by Pay TV provider across the MENA
region (By September 2015)..................................................................... 15
Exhibit 12: Dealers throughout MENA (By September 2015)........................... 16
Exhibit 13: OSN distribution of total dealers throughout the MENA region (By
September 2015) ...................................................................................... 17
Exhibit 14: beIN Sports distribution of total dealers throughout the MENA
region (By September 2015)..................................................................... 17
Exhibit 15: Al Majd distribution of total dealers throughout the MENA region
(By September 2015)................................................................................ 18
Exhibit 16: MyHD distribution of total dealers throughout the MENA region (By
September 2015) ...................................................................................... 18
Exhibit 17: Availability of interactive services (By September 2015) .............. 19
Exhibit 18: Availability of multi screen platforms (By September 2015) ......... 20
Exhibit 19: OSN packages and prices (By September 2015)............................ 23
Exhibit 20: Al Majd package and price (By September 2015) .......................... 25
Exhibit 21: beIN Sports package and prices (By September 2015) ................. 26
Exhibit 22: MyHD package and prices (By September 2015) ........................... 27

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List of Appendices
Appendix A – Pay TV Providers packages’ lists of channels..............................30
Exhibit A1: OSN’s Pay TV channels...................................................................30
Exhibit A2: OSN packages (By September 2015)..............................................33
Exhibit A3: Al Majd’s Pay TV channels ..............................................................51
Exhibit A4: beIN Sports’ Pay TV channels ........................................................51
Exhibit A5: MyHD’s Pay TV channels ................................................................52
Exhibit A6: MyHD packages (By September 2015) ...........................................53
Appendix B – Pay TV Providers’ lists of dealers................................................63
Exhibit B1: OSN list of major dealers (By September 2015) .............................63
Exhibit B2: Al Majd list of major dealers (By September 2015) ........................65
Exhibit B3: beIN Sports list of major dealers (By September 2015).................67
Exhibit B4: MyHD list of major dealers (By September 2015) ..........................84

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