National Basketball Association (NBA)
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league that consists of 30 teams in North America — 29 in the United States and one in Canada.
Domestic telecast rights to NBA games are held by the Walt Disney Company’s ESPN, Warner Bros Discovery’s TNT Sports and several regional sports broadcasters through the 2024-25 season.
Starting with the 2025-26 season, nationally-televised NBA games are tentatively scheduled to move from TNT Sports to Comcast’s NBC Sports and Amazon’s Prime Video.
Griffin Media to bring Oklahoma City Thunder games to free broadcast TV
Griffin Media has signed a deal with the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team to move nearly 70 regular-season, locally-televised games to free broadcast TV this season.
Sinclair inks deal to bring Spurs games to CW Network affiliate
Nearly two dozen games will air on KMYS during the season, part of a broader deal between Sinclair and the San Antonio Spurs.
Comcast’s Xfinity touts enhancements to X1, Internet in time for NBA tip-off
New features will allow Comcast customers to get real-time stats, watch 4K video feeds and create custom multi-view screens during basketball games.
Atlanta Hawks games to stream on Prime Video, air on WANF-TV
Prime Video subscribers in Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and Mississippi will receive the games at no additional cost.
Sinclair brings the Heat with basketball games on local TV in Florida
Sinclair, Inc. has reached a deal with the Miami Heat basketball team to bring most of its live games to free broadcast TV in West Palm Beach this season.
DAZN looks to scale U.S. sports business through local, regional deals
The streamer has been acquiring local television rights to NBA games and other sports franchises over the past few years as it pushes its way into the U.S. market.
Braiden Bell lawyers up, asks Trail Blazers for another shot
A sports broadcaster who lost his job with the Portland Trail Blazers before it even began is asking the team to reconsider their decision and has hired a lawyer to handle publicity on his behalf.
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TEGNA brings basketball to broadcast stations in Memphis, Minneapolis
TEGNA-owned stations in Minneapolis and Memphis will offer more than a dozen NBA games on free, over-the-air TV this season.
TEGNA launches internal review of KGW-TV story on fired sports broadcaster
The probe comes one day after the station published a story on old social media comments made by broadcaster Braiden Bell while he was a teenager.
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Braiden Bell: Hired for the right reasons, fired for the wrong ones
KGW-TV unearthed tweets he wrote when he was a teenager. Now, promising broadcaster Braiden Bell is out of a job. The cautionary tale and slippery slope this creates should worry everyone in the industry.
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Nexstar inks deal with DAZN to bring Indiana Pacers games to broadcast TV
The games will be simulcast on Nexstar-owned television stations and streamed free through DAZN.
Detroit Pistons announce more broadcast partners for 2026-27 season
More than a half-dozen new broadcast TV partners will offer Detroit Pistons games on their stations this season.
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