 Like its sister channels beIN Sports and beIN Sports 2 (as well as the Al Jazeera Children's Channel), beIN Sports 1 is headquartered in Doha's Education City (separate from Doha's Al Jazeera/Al Jazeera English studios).Al Jazeera Sports +1 started broadcasting in 2004, and gathered a sizable audience because of its coverage of the Spanish football league.It went on to win the rights to the Italian football league the following year.