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Some images and information about the English channels, which are still only broadcast to the MENA region and aimed at British and other English people living in the Middle East. There are 3 English channels and they mainly broadcast the same matches and sports which are shown on the other Arabic channels but with English commentary and for the Premier League, FA Cup, Champions League, Europa League plus international matches they have English studio presentation.

This coverage features Richard Keys and Andy Gray for the Premier League coverage but also has Aarran Summers, Andy Kerr and Nicky Crosby as additional presenters. Before Covid they used to have a wide range of pundits but now it seems to be Didi Domi, Nigel de  Jong, Nicky Summerbee and Jason McAteer who are used, probably due to financial cutbacks which have also seen the amount of matches and programing that use the English studio substantially reduced (e.g. it used to have various "magazine" programmes and big La Liga matches from the studio but this has stopped).

They also show some sports exclusively on the English channels such as England's home cricket matches plus some rugby (only 7s at the moment) and golf (DP World Tour tournaments played in the Middle East). 

Studio is shown below, unfortunately they didn't use a wide shot while I was watching yesterday. This studio was previously used for the Ligue 1 coverage while the English studio was much bigger and elaborate, but post Covid they don't use this one anymore on the English channels.






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