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Sports was also banned inside saudi arabia. but then a few weeks later what you saw was the emergance of a new website called beoth that was being promoted by senior royal advisers on twitter, like saud al-qahtani, who was accused of helping orchestrate the murder ofjournalist jamal khashoggi who you mentioned earlier. and this service is offering the sports offering that bein sports was offering. including the premier league? including the premier league. bein sports caught wind of this. they realised that... they did some digging themselves, as well as the premier league, and they discovered...

Of us use every day. absolutely. the one that i delved into deepest was netflix. the saudis made a big deal with netflix. now, it should be said that unlike what jim was talking about, these are us companies going out and looking for growth markets, and a lot of them are kind of tapped out in the west. we think of netflix being a booming company but its growth is really, really slowing, and where are you going to get millions and millions of well—funded young people to sign on to your service? it's going to be in countries like saudi arabia where two thirds of the country is younger than 30,...

Being a booming company but its growth is really, really slowing, and where are you going to get millions and millions of well—funded young people to sign on to your service? it's going to be in countries like saudi arabia where two thirds of the country is younger than 30, they have money to spend, they are looking for entertainment, they are hungry for it, and as many of the saudis that i spoke to said, we binge watch all the kind of same tv as you do. we just do it online. but why does that mean the saudis want to invest in netflix? i can see why netflix might want to reach saudi. that wa...