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In 2002, NBA games returned to ABC as part of a contract signed with the league, along with cable sister network ESPN. After the ABC Sports division was merged into ESPN Inc. by parent company Disney in 2006, broadcasts have since been produced by ESPN, and have primarily used the NBA on ESPN branding and graphics instead of the NBA on ABC ...
FILE - Inside the NBA host Ernie Johnson Jr., left, and analysts Kenny Smith, center, and Charles Barkley speak on the set at the TNT studios in Atlanta, Feb. 4, 2010.
Disney counters that the cost of sports rights are going up, not down (see: last month’s 11-year, $76 billion NBA TV rights deal) and that it has been open to new options, apropos of the deal ...
The show will still be produced by TNT Sports and existing contracts with the hosts — Charles Barkley, Ernie Johnson, Kenny Smith, and Shaquille O’Neal — will remain valid, the person said.
The following is a general overview of the National Basketball Association (NBA) on television in the 2020s. There have been no new national media contracts during this period. Locally three NBA teams, the Los Angeles Clippers, Utah Jazz and Phoenix Suns, moved all or some of their games from regional sports networks to over-the-air television ...
On October 6, 2014, NBA announced a nine-year $24 billion ($2.7 billion/year) extension with ESPN, ABC and Turner Sports beginning with the 2016–17 NBA season and running through the 2024–25 season [87] – the second most expensive media rights in the world after NFL and on a par with English football on television in annual rights fee ...
NEWS: The NBA has finalized contracts with NBC, Amazon and ESPN as its TV partners, The Athletic has learned. * TNT's next move, what new NBA sked will look like and how ESPN kept hold of The Finals.
ABC then gained the NBA in 1964, airing its first NBA game on January 3, 1965. Up until the 1970–71 season, ABC often aired NBA games as segments of its popular ABC's Wide World of Sports anthology series rather than standalone broadcasts. CBS took over national rights from ABC in 1973. The late 1970s and early 1980s was notoriously known as ...