2024 NBA Media Deals

[Georgie56 3214]

 

Edited May 1, 2024 by Georgie56

[TennTV1983 791]

This was bound to happen, especially with the impending collapse of RSNs as we know it.

[JTT 80]

What are the chances of NBC getting a piece of the rights?

[nickp 315]

If TNT loses the NBA this is the biggest loss of the entire process Turner being with the NBA for 40 years  Inside the NBA ends it will be the biggest mistake in the history of the league

[JTT 80]

According to yahoo finance, NBC is offering 2.5b to broadcast NBA games.

 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nbc-plans-2-5-billion-220910697.html

[FiveNews 357]

Do it right, or don't do it at all.

 

 

[ekt8750 35]

1 hour ago, FiveNews said:

Do it right, or don't do it at all.

 

 

They'll probably have to wrestle away the license from Fox but I'm sure that won't be a hindrance.

 

The current (or Current) RSN theme is a pretty good #2 option though.

[J.W. Rodriguez 8]

Well, if Roundball Rock is not an option, they could bring back this theme from the dead. After all, if CTV in Canada could acquire 'The Hockey Theme', then NBC can acquire this one, even if it's just the licensing rights.

 

 

 

[Georgie56 3214]

On 4/26/2024 at 7:39 PM, nickp said:

If TNT loses the NBA this is the biggest loss of the entire process Turner being with the NBA for 40 years  Inside the NBA ends it will be the biggest mistake in the history of the league

 

The league won’t care about nostalgia, longevity and sentiment as long as the check clears from the highest bidder.

Edited April 30, 2024 by Georgie56

[nycnewsjunkie 1428]

On 4/26/2024 at 8:39 PM, nickp said:

If TNT loses the NBA this is the biggest loss of the entire process Turner being with the NBA for 40 years  Inside the NBA ends it will be the biggest mistake in the history of the league

Unfortunately, I think the rumors about NBC have something to them. David Zaslav, in a rather idiotic move IMO, went on record to say “We don’t need the NBA.” In other words, they need us more than we need them. Not only is that an extremely foolish and arrogant thing to say in public; it’s patently false. TNT’s entire sports division is built around the NBA; their plans to start a streaming service w/ Fox and ESPN revolve around having the NBA. It would be disastrous if they lose it.

 

Source: https://awfulannouncing.com/nba/david-zaslav-nba-rights-deal.html

 

If TNT doesn’t pick up a package of games, I just hope one of the other broadcasters picks up the Inside guys. It would be a shame to lose that show like this.

[mrschimpf 2287]

3 hours ago, nycnewsjunkie said:

If TNT doesn’t pick up a package of games, I just hope one of the other broadcasters picks up the Inside guys. It would be a shame to lose that show like this.

NBC usually does a great job with transitions (outside Al Michaels, but that's more him than him), and like NBC basically grabbing the entire ABC MNF crew when they got the Sunday night package, I would expect them to just grab most of the Turner personnel and mix with their own. And though I love Mike Breen (and it depends if they switch it to a Super Bowl-like rotation), to finally give Kevin Harlan a Finals call would be amazing alone.

[ekt8750 35]

22 hours ago, ekt8750 said:

They'll probably have to wrestle away the license from Fox but I'm sure that won't be a hindrance.

 

The current (or Current) RSN theme is a pretty good #2 option though.

Little update on this; John Tesh says all they have to do is give him a call if they win the package. The Fox license isn't exclusive:

 

http://amp.awfulannouncing.com/nbc/john-tesh-roundball-rock-nba-media-rights.html

[DENDude 197]

It will be interesting to see how fast traditional TV declines now that so much of the sports coverage has gone streaming.    I'm sure most of the MLB & NFL games will be exclusively streaming in the coming years as the contracts come up.

[MorningNews 1377]

I think the strength of the Super Bowl, SNF, MNF on ESPN/ABC, NBA playoffs, etc. will help maintain a sizable portion of live sports broadcasting on linear for at least the foreseeable future. 

[JTT 80]

There's an article that says NBC would air 2 primetime games a week during the season.  Would that mean a Sunday Night double header or 2 games spread out during the week on NBC?

[Glimmer 263]

2 hours ago, JTT said:

There's an article that says NBC would air 2 primetime games a week during the season.  Would that mean a Sunday Night double header or 2 games spread out during the week on NBC?

What I’ve seen speculated are games on Saturday and Sunday nights 

[JTT 80]

If ABC keeps their part of the deal, they've been showing saturdays night games.  So, if NBC gets part of the NBA deal, their prime time would be Sunday nights only or another night as well?  I think NBC will probably have a double header Sunday nights.  Otherwise, the only other night that might make sense would be Friday night games in my opinion,  since NBC only has dateline on Friday nights with reruns at 8pm.

Edited May 2, 2024 by JTT

[Jase 943]

On 5/1/2024 at 5:12 PM, JTT said:

There's an article that says NBC would air 2 primetime games a week during the season.  Would that mean a Sunday Night double header or 2 games spread out during the week on NBC?

 

The primetime games would have to air during the week given NBC has college football on Saturday nights (Big 10 Saturday Night) and of course... SNF on Sunday during the Fall. Once football is over, they could then mix things up. The prospect of NBC airing sports 3 (or 4) nights a week would be interesting to say the least...

[jerseyfla 203]

It will truly suck for TNT to lose the NBA. It would be worst than NBC losing it back in 2002 because at that time NBC outside of the Olympics and Golf were to me feeling like the sports department was “mailing it in”. They had Arena Football as football filler for losing the NFL in 1998 and they had NASCAR to fill the void of no NFL but IMO Dale Earnhardt getting killed in 2001 started a slow death (no pun intended) for NASCAR ratings wise.
 

TNT (Turner as a whole company really.) is still going strong with all of the high profile sports and events they have outside of not having the NFL. And they have the hottest studio show in North American Sports TV with Inside the NBA. TNT losing the NBA would be up there probably 3rd with NBC losing baseball in 1989 and behind CBS and NBC losing the NFL in 1994 and 1998 respectively. 

ESPN has their priorities. Have blank check in hand for the following sports

1. Monday Night Football 

2. College Football (sans Big Ten) and the CFP

3. The NBA and the Finals

4. NCAA Women’s Tournament and Final Four

 

As much as I and many others hate ESPNs coverage of the NBA, they do whatever it takes to keep it unfortunately and their daytime shows are heavily influenced by it when it’s not football season. 

Edited May 3, 2024 by jerseyfla

[MorningNews 1377]

Was just thinking about what becomes of “Inside the NBA” if Turner loses rights. I don’t see it being the same great show it is on NBC or ESPN (where they’d easily work them to death as Chuck has joked). 

[ThunderJay27 37]

1 hour ago, MorningNews said:

Was just thinking about what becomes of “Inside the NBA” if Turner loses rights. I don’t see it being the same great show it is on NBC or ESPN (where they’d easily work them to death as Chuck has joked). 

If Amazon grabs a part of the rights, I could see them just absorbing Inside. They're the only ones that, I think, would give them the time and space to really do what they do. NBC would have time constraints with the news and such.

[JTT 80]

NBC could put the show on Peacock.

[mrschimpf 2287]

16 minutes ago, JTT said:

NBC could put the show on Peacock.

That's where those pointless world feed highlight shows go to die, nobody would agree to that. Best place would be USA NBC-wise.

[JTT 80]

If NBC is going to keep Inside the NBA, they're probably going to put the program on CNBC.  Back when NBC had the NBA in the 90s, CNBC was used for pre and post game coverage.  It might be easier for NBC to use CNBC for this than USA Network.  It would not interrupt schedule programming already on USA network.   CNBC doesn't have programming that gets more audience than USA with reruns of law and order svu, ncsi, , chicago fire, & etc.

[gbsgeo 23]

But since the death of NBCSN, USA has become NBC Sports' secondary network, with CNBC becoming overflow when the latter already has sports programming going on. If they want to keep promoting other sports like Premier League and Track and Field than it would be wise to put it on USA. However, it would probably end up on Peacock since that's where they have their SNF post show right now.