Showtime on Nilesat

Showtime is a service available on a 80cm or 1m dish via Nilesat.

Its is a PAY TV service and requires a viewing card and compatible receiver. Normally, and to make your subscription 100% legal, you require an address in Saudi Arabia for the card, just like you require a UK address for your Sky card. However, you can purchase these cards "over the counter".

This package is of interest to Football and other sports fans due to its portfolio of sports available.

They show ALL UK Premiership football matches including the 3pm Saturday kickoffs, many with English commentary, at least until the end of the 2009 / 2010 season.

They also show Formula1, Golf, Wrestling, Rugby and much more.

You can find the Showtime football schedules via the link in "TV Guides" in the menu.

Please be aware that no "Premier League"  rights for international (i.e. non UK) broadcasters have yet been announced for the 20010 - 11 season onwards. Therefore do not expect Showtime to continue showing matches past this coming 2009 - 10 season (the end of the current contract period), and your Showtime receiver may not accept other broadcasters viewing cards, as there are around 3 other broadcasters interested in these matches. It is expected that the international rights for Premiere League 2010-11 will be announced in August.

UPDATE: Showtime Sports do not have the rights to show UK Premier League football matches from the 2010 season. These have been allocated to another Middle East broadcaster, who may sell on rights to certain football matches to other broadcasters.

February 1st 2010 Update:

Following on from its ‘merger’ last July, Dubai’s Orbit-Showtime Network is relaunching today, Feb 1.
Pay-TV operator Orbit-Showtime Network will relaunch today with a new look and 8 new channels. Three will be in high-definition. However, viewers cannot yet receive the new HD channels unless they’ve a brand new set-top box and this will not be available for a few weeks.

Orbit-Showtime Network said it would be about 9 months before all subscribers get a new box. “It’s not a box that you can buy in the market,” d’Halluin said. “We will only be providing these boxes to new and existing subscribers only. It’s going to take six to nine months to complete because we’ve got hundreds of thousands of subscribers”.

The three new HDTV services are OSN Movies HD, Nat Geo Wild HD and Discovery HD, while the five new standard channels are OSN Variety, Scripps’ Food Network, MTV Networks-owned BET (Black Entertainment TV), Discovery’s Investigation Discovery (ID) and OSN Arabia – claimed to be the region’s first 24-hour Western entertainment channel dubbed entirely into Arabic.

The relaunch has meant a few changes to the Showtime channels and frequencies on the Nilesat 7W satellite, especially for those channels that currently show UK Premier League football.

What channels are available with Orbit Showtime?
3 SHOWCINEMA TVMAX channels that deliver the best home theatre selections from Paramount, Dreamworks, Sony Columbia, NBC Universal, Disney and local studios.
11 Movies channels - SHOWMOVIES 1, SHOWMOVIES 2, SHOWMOVIES ACTION, SHOWMOVIES COMEDY, SHOWMOVIES KIDS, SUPER MOVIES, SUPER MOVIES +1, XTRA MOVIES, CINEMA CITY, TCM and MGM. These leading channels allow customers to choose from up to 9 different first-time-on-TV movies broadcasting at any one time.
4 SHOWSPORTS channels - SHOWSPORTS 1, SHOWSPORTS 2, SHOWSPORTS 3 and SHOWSPORTS 4 - being the home of Barclay's Premier League, Coca-Cola Championships, Ryder Cup, Cricket, Rugby Union Tri-Nations, Rugby League World Cup, WWE, Ultimate Fighting Championship and other exclusive leagues.
MBC+ DRAMA and 7 SHOWSERIES channels - SHOWSERIES and SHOWSERIES EXTRA, home of action and drama series and SHOWSHASHA, home of Arabic movies, series and talkshows; SHOWCOMEDY and SHOWCOMEDY EXTRA, home of comedy series and SHOWKIDS, featuring your favourite children's characters including Dennis the Menace, Inspector Gadget, Madeline and many more.
International partner channels such as Disney Channel, JimJam, Discovery World, Animal Planet, Nat Geo Wild, Nat Geo Adventure, BBC Lifestyle, E! Entertainment, The Style Network and many more.


Do you have sports channels?
Yes we have 4 locally produced sports channels - SHOWSPORTS 1, SHOWSPORTS 2, SHOWPORTS 3 and SHOWSPORTS 4 featuring internationally produced sports programmes, bringing you Barclay's Premier League, Coca-Cola Championships, Ryder Cup, Cricket, Rugby Union Tri-Nations, Rugby League World Cup, WWE, Ultimate Fighting Championship and other exclusive leagues.


Are you showing all Premier League matches?
SHOWTIME has also secured the exclusive rights to broadcast all matches per season of the Barclay's Premier League between 2007 and 2010. You can expect to see all games live and exclusive on the SHOWSPORTS and other SHOWTIME channels in both Arabic and English with dedicated studios in both languages.

Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) frequencies for Nilesat and Atlantic Bird 4 at 7 West

Atlantic Bird 4A
Frequency 11373.00 H - 27500 3/4

Fashion TV
Al Yawm
Al Safwa
Cinema 1
Cinema 2
Arabic Series +4
Fann
Music Now
Super Movies +1
Zone Club
Pinoy Extreme
GMA Pinoy TV
GMA Life TV
MnL TV


Atlantic Bird 4A
Frequency 11411.00 H 27500 3/4

ShowCinema TV Max
ShowCinema TV Max
ShowCinema TV Max
Xtra Movies
Cinema City
MGM Middle-East
America Plus +2
The History Channel
Trace TV France Music
Playhouse Disney
Arabic Series Channel
Fox Sports Middle East


Nilesat 101
Frequency 11804.00 H 27500 3/4

NatGeo Wild
Animal Planet
Discovery Science Channel


Nilesat 101
Frequency 11862.00 V 11862.00 V

America Plus
E! Entertainment TV
BBC Entertainment Europe
ShowShasha
MBC+ Drama
JimJam EMEA
Super Comedy Bahrain
Disney XD Middle-East
ShowSeries 1
Disney Channel Middle-East


Nilesat 101
Frequency 11977.00 V 11977.00 V

Fox Sports Middle East
Extreme Sports
Bloomberg U.K. United Kingdom
Future News
City 7 TV
Sharjah TV 2
MTV Arabic
Showtime Open TV


Nilesat 101
Frequency 11996.00 H 27500 3/4

ShowSports 4
ShowMovies 1
Super Movies
ShowMovies Action
ShowMovies Kids
ShowMovies Comedy
ShowSports 1
ShowSports 2
ShowSports 3
Cinema City


Nilesat 101
Frequency 12034.00 H 27500 3/4

ART Sport 7


Nilesat 102
Frequency 12073.00 H 12073.00 H

Cartoon Network
TCM - Turner Classic Movies
VH-1 (Video Hits One)
Discovery Channel Middle-East
BBC Lifestyle
Travel Channel
BET U.K.
MTV Music
CNBC Europe
Investigation Discovery Europe
CNN International U.S.A.
Boomerang
KidsCo
Playhouse Disney

Note that the Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) channels on Nilesat 101 and Nilesat 102 frequencies can be received in the Costa Blanca Spain area on an 80cm to 1m satellite dish. Those Orbit Showtime Network (OSN) channels on Atlantic Bird require a must lager satellite dish, maybe even a 1.8m satellite dish for good reception.