NBA Premium TV
History | |
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Launched | October 16, 2010 |
Closed | October 1, 2019 |
Replaced by | Solar Sports (Solar Entertainment Corporation) NBA TV Philippines (Cignal TV) |
NBA Premium TV was a Philippine
On September 25, 2019, it announced on the official Facebook page of Basketball TV (BTV) as well as on its Instagram and Twitter accounts that the channel and BTV will cease their operations on October 1, 2019. The final program to air on this channel was a replay of NBA Playoff Playback on September 30, 2019, before signing off at 12:10 a.m. on October 1, 2019.
Upon the channel's termination,
Features
NBA Premium was the sister channel of Basketball TV (now defunct), but the channel aired more games and NBA-content than its sister channel or ABS-CBN (Free TV partner). Since it was also a re-direct broadcast of NBA TV, there were no local commercial insertions and only aired commercials coming from the US feed and during some NBA games were not to be televised on NBA TV, it used local advertisements and few from the US advertisements. The channel was only dedicated to NBA programs. The channel also retained commentary from US broadcast during the NBA Finals, and also a direct re-broadcast from ABC/ESPN, while BTV and ABS-CBN used the world feed and local commentary, respectively. The channel also aired NBA-related programming during off-season like WNBA games on pre-season games.[citation needed]
History
On April 10, 2017,
Final programming
Season
- NBA Regular Season/Post-season Games
- Pre-game and Post game shows
- Inside the NBA
- NBA Action
- Fantasy Insider
- The Beat
- The Jump
- NBA TV Marquee Match-up of the week
- NBA Gametime Live
- NBA All-Star Game
- NBA Mid-season Report Card
- NBA Special
- Playoff Playback
Off season
- NBA Greatest Games
- Hardwood Classics
- NBA Top Games of the Year
- NBA Courtside Cinema
- Old School Monday
- WNBA Regular Season/Play off Games
- WNBA Action
- Championship Clinchers
- Team USAexhibition games
- NBA draft
- Summer League Games
- Training Camp
See also
- Basketball TV, NBA Premium TV's sister channel
- Solar Sports, NBA Premium TV's sister channel
- NBA TV Philippines, NBA Premium TV's replacement
- NBA League Pass, NBA's global streaming service
References
- Inquirer.net.
- ^ "NBA games return to Philippine television via Cignal-Smart collab". spin.ph.
- ^ Henson, Joaquin M. (July 29, 2020). "NBA is back home". Philstar.com. The Philippine Star. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- Philippine Star. July 27, 2020.
- ^ Villanueva, Eros (July 27, 2020). "How to watch NBA games in the Philippines". ESPN5. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
- ^ Terrado, Reuben. "NBA Premium, BTV channels back on SKYCable, per advisory". Spin.ph. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ "SKY Advisory". Mysky.com.ph. October 28, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
- ^ Terrado, Reuben (January 1, 2019). "NBA Premium and BTV are back in SKYcable's channel lineup". Spin.ph. Retrieved October 14, 2019.