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The World Cup kicks off today and the Lebanese are still unsure whether they will be able to watch it for free on TeleLiban or not. Like I said yesterday, the way Lebanese officials are dealing with this matter is quite shameful and humiliating. We shouldn’t be begging anyone to watch the World Cup, nor waiting for Qatar’s Prime Minister or BeIN’s chairman to make up their mind and decide whether the Lebanese can watch the World Cup for free or not.
Having said that, and since most of the Lebanese have illegal cable subscriptions, chances are the cable guy will charge you an extra amount and get either BeIN channels or some foreign channels that are broadcasting it for free. There’s a list of free channels (TF1, Rai Sport, Canal+ Sport etc ..) that is being circulated that you can see below, but chances are these will be blocked on the receivers by the local providers. Here’s the full list of TVs broadcasting the World Cup as provided by the FIFA.
In case you have a decent internet connection, there are TVs that will be broadcasting the first two rounds for free on their website and mobile apps, like Spanish Univision and French TF1.
There’s also a website I use to livestream almost any sports event that is called feed2all.eu. I never tried it during a World Cup but I am sure they will be showing games.
If you are still not sure what time the games are, go to FIFA’s website and click the “Change to local time” for the games you are interested in. It will show you the game schedule based on Beirut local time.
I don’t get why they’re begging Qatar to give the Lebanese the world cup for free they didn’t even give Qataris the WC for free they’re gonna give it to us ya3ne. In Qatar all the sports channels have been removed and live streaming websites blocked everybody had to pay 250 Riyal I think its like 70$. Seriously jarrasouna w bahdalouna 3al fade. Not that it’s anything new.
world cup has always been for free and that is how it should be. else why to call it world cup. ya gama3a formula one is still free.
Lak screw this whole scenario, it is not a one or two-pronged problem.. Even the users are the problem. Illegal cable that we take for granted… If we had bought proper cable…. we complain so passionately about entertainment and carry flags around like its a sect we belong to. Stupid people, stupid companies, abusive governments and illegal activity everywhere. Open your Eyes, people are demonstrating on the streets in Brazil and we are gambling millions online and complaining we can’t indulge some more … yuck!
Cynthia,
Do you know how much Al Jazeera is supposed to charge the people for watching the world cup?
90% of the countries is FREE
Qatar bought the rights for the entire Middle East from Fifa. Who are they to negotiate on behalf of everyone in the Middle East?
I blame Fifa and Qatar here, NOT LEBANON. All the countries in the Middle East should have been able to negotiate directly with Fifa like any other country in the world.
Where do you see me blaming Lebanon for Qatar having broadcasting rights I think its really wrong too I think everyone should watch for free I’m just not okay with begging another country to give me something for free when they didn’t even do it for their own people. it’s just embarrassing that’s what I was saying. Your reply has nothing to do with what I said I wasn’t blaming Lebanon because Qatar bought the rights. As Najib said the way Lebanese officials dealt with the situation is quite humiliating. That’s what I was talking about.
The online mentioned channels (Univision and TF1) will not work in Lebanon
“Univision Deportes is not available in your geographic region. LEBANON”
The online option can be First Row US…
BeinSports is a monopoly and should be brought down.
Thank you Menaribo,
Finally someone who gets it. Al Jazeera bough the rights for all the middle eastern countries. WHY? Who gave them that right? Fifa. It should have been left up to each country’s and their public or private TV stations
Rai sport will be crypted in mediagard 2 as seems not broadcasting on hotbird hatta tante jazeera ma tnarvezzzzz
Zdf say it simply on april 24th: no broadcast on hotbird
so stop dreaming
We want to watch the World Cup 2014 please give us the staion to watch it today June 12 thier is Brazil how I will watch it
Hey Najib, for TF1 you will need a French VPN since the website will check your location before giving you the stream. That’s what I did.
Guys, it is only 100-150$ and u can watch 16 stations HD with the best commentators, pundits and all the world cup frenzy. Stop the begging practice. And for the ones who will say Lebanese can’t afford it, BS! You all own iphones, Ipads- how did u afford those?
So i can afford it does that makes it okay to charge people to watch the world cup ? Do you think everyone can afford 150$ ? WWhat about the millions of arabs that suffer everyday dont they deserve to relax for a month and watch the world cup ?
Dany the issue is not about $$$ the issue is about broadcasting companies making fun of us and trying to make money … i already have cable vision and bought receiver 160$ and subscription 240$ … for the world cup i should either buy BEIN (240$) or Digitec (175$) to watch world cup!!!! shu 2 years after another company for euro league!? … whats happening …
it is our right to watch it for free. so stop being arrogant about your capability to pay so much. i know mitle ijrkom i masari but 150$ is a yearly university fee for more than 80% of the lebanese. if i have to pay 100$ to watch football then it is my right to watch it without advertisements at least. stupid world we live in.
Hi. Dani? did you pay the 100-150$? and did you get to watch the world cup on any of those 16 channels? if you did… please tell me how,
Because i have a Cablevision receiver, that i pay hefty amounts of money for to have the privilege of watching all the international channels (for the sake of broadening my knowledge & culture). And!! i paid an extra $100 for that “special” Bein card with all the sports channels, which would supposedly be the most ‘legal’ way of solving this entire issue…
they opened up for about 5 minutes, then they were blocked again! by cablevision themselves! as if they sold us the cards, then fucked us over by blocking them again…
Tried calling my cable provider, he gave me a bunch of numbers to punch in to recalibrate blablablablabla…. that didn’t work. Then, i tried calling the Cablevision office directly. HA! As if they’d keep their lines open for customer service! they were shut. nobody answered, i tried calling for hours!!
Yes TF1 did broadcast the opening ceremony & opening game… but are they broadcasting all games? Also, the channel isn’t even in HD.
SO. HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO FIGURE THIS OUT?!? WHOSE HEADS SHOULD I BE CHOPPING OFF?!?
Thank you !!
The photocopy of the article has been very helpful. I found 4 channels on Hotbird satellite to watch the WC on.
Commenting on someone who said thats only 100-150$ and we can afford it! its true ok we can pay that amount but the problem is that it doesnt work on any receiver.. we must but bein receiver !! right?
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No its not just 150 $ and no not all lebanese have iphones and ipads, if you can afford it consider yourself of the lucky ones in this country, I know some parents who are not able to put their children to school, some cannot afford medicines costs, and they are a small sample. Putting all that aside, football is and should remain the most popular sport, it can only remain like that if it remains available to everyone FREE OF CHARGE. heck in Syria it’s free for everyone through their Dunia channel. The way this county’s government treat the people would cause revolutions in countries where the population have brains.. The WC is the least of things going wrong in this sh**hole.
Hi everyone its a shame that corporates like BeinSports make our watching sport a pain in the *** .
well here in Iran we cannot watch world cup from any foreign channels Like Rai Sport or ZDF and ARD so we are stock to National TV IRIB 3 which is free but has a Biss code required to watch the matches so if you can get HOTBIRD you can watch IRIB 3 and all the matches are free (the Biss code is 33 11 11 11 33 11 11 11)
so I hope i was helpful to some of you at least.
I do agree with most of the guys in here… Who gave the right to Qatar to decide for other countries wether they broadcast the WC or not… Certainly the huge amount payed to FA so they can monopolize it around the middle east… Football is well known to be the game of the poor and it is the only huge attraction around the world… we young people MIGHT be able to pay 150$ but thats not the point. This is a monopoly and they are manipulating people wether its qatar or fifa… shame on both of them… and our gov is even more shamefull cos in such a case they are the one to be responsible for getting it to their people not private sectors… the world is coming to an end lool