2024 NBA Media Deals

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At least it's all over and WBD will get something (good) out of it.

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Hollywood Reporter says ESPN will only use Inside The NBA for Opening Night, Christmas Day, playoffs (including the Finals), and ABC Saturday Primetime games in the second half of the season.

 

All other ESPN/ABC games will use the existing NBA Countdown crews.

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10 hours ago, JTT said:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warner-bros-discovery-nba-settle-024933541.html

 

So, WBD will get NBA games or just content?  In terms of content, I am assuming highlights?

They got some international rights but nothing here. Licensing Inside the NBA to ESPN was a savvy move by both sides.

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 Amazon or NBC should've picked up Inside the NBA

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1 hour ago, nickp said:

 Amazon or NBC should've picked up Inside the NBA

I agree.  Will NBC bring back NBA Inside Stuff?

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10 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

Hollywood Reporter says ESPN will only use Inside The NBA for Opening Night, Christmas Day, playoffs (including the Finals), and ABC Saturday Primetime games in the second half of the season.

 

All other ESPN/ABC games will use the existing NBA Countdown crews.

Since Countdown never has a steady panel from season to season you can really just assume anyone not named SAS, Shams Charania or Brian Windhorst won't be back next year and whatever Inside does, they'll adjust to that style. Or that they'll just finally ditch "Countdown" altogether for the branding.

 

It's also for the best since ABC has the Finals and we can finally get them past the conference finals (that first post-Finals "Gone Fishin'" is gonna be fun!).

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19 hours ago, mrschimpf said:

Since Countdown never has a steady panel from season to season you can really just assume anyone not named SAS, Shams Charania or Brian Windhorst won't be back next year and whatever Inside does, they'll adjust to that style. Or that they'll just finally ditch "Countdown" altogether for the branding.

 

It's also for the best since ABC has the Finals and we can finally get them past the conference finals (that first post-Finals "Gone Fishin'" is gonna be fun!).

 

It's gonna be interesting cause it sounds like Inside is gonna stay on TNT outside the ESPN/ABC windows. I'm wondering if they'll be permitted to run on days that are NBC and Amazon windows. What would be cool is if on days where there is no national window they do an MLB Tonight style live look in show and have the panel play off that. They'd probably have to have panelists rotating in and out to sustain 6 hours of content but I think it would work with the amount of personalities that they have there.

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Glad that Inside The NBA will live on after this year NBATV has NBA Gametime that is the flagship show for NBATV. 

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1 hour ago, ekt8750 said:

It's gonna be interesting cause it sounds like Inside is gonna stay on TNT outside the ESPN/ABC windows. I'm wondering if they'll be permitted to run on days that are NBC and Amazon windows. What would be cool is if on days where there is no national window they do an MLB Tonight style live look in show and have the panel play off that. They'd probably have to have panelists rotating in and out to sustain 6 hours of content but I think it would work with the amount of personalities that they have there.

 

You might be a little confused. Based on the press release, they're Disney-exclusive. Warner-Discovery will produce other NBA-related content but 'Inside' isn't going to be some kind of off-night block or whatever.

https://espnpressroom.com/us/press-releases/2024/11/espn-and-tnt-sports-reach-agreement-for-iconic-inside-the-nba-to-be-exclusively-distributed-on-espn-and-abc-platforms-beginning-with-2025-26-nba-regular-season/

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22 hours ago, JTT said:

I agree.  Will NBC bring back NBA Inside Stuff?

 

NBA TV rebooted Inside Stuff back about a decade ago with Grant Hill and Kristen Ledlow...it wasn't nowhere near as entertaining as the original.  The viral video/YouTube age pretty much made it obsolete as a viable series.