NBA Premium TV

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NBA Premium TV
History
LaunchedOctober 16, 2010
ClosedOctober 1, 2019
Replaced bySolar Sports (Solar Entertainment Corporation)
NBA TV Philippines (Cignal TV)

NBA Premium TV was a Philippine

sports-oriented network owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation. The channel is a joint venture between Solar and NBA TV. It was a live simulcast broadcast of NBA TV, the league's dedicated channel in the United States
.

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,

TV5 and One Sports, with Cignal launching its own channel NBA TV Philippines on July 31, 2020.[2][3][4][5]

Features

NBA Premium TV logo used from 2010 to 2017

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,

CT (now defunct) allegedly due to Sky Cable's unpaid carriage fees. However, on October 16, 2018, the channel was restored on Sky Cable & Sky Direct after 18 months of carriage disputes.[6] On October 28, 2018, the channel was dropped again on Sky Cable & Sky Direct.[7] On January 1, 2019, the channel was restored again on Sky Cable and Sky Direct.[8]

Final programming

Season

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 USA
    exhibition games
  • NBA draft
  • Summer League Games
  • Training Camp

See also

References

  1. Inquirer.net
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  2. ^ "NBA games return to Philippine television via Cignal-Smart collab". spin.ph.
  3. ^ Henson, Joaquin M. (July 29, 2020). "NBA is back home". Philstar.com. The Philippine Star. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  4. Philippine Star
    . July 27, 2020.
  5. ^ Villanueva, Eros (July 27, 2020). "How to watch NBA games in the Philippines". ESPN5. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
  6. ^ Terrado, Reuben. "NBA Premium, BTV channels back on SKYCable, per advisory". Spin.ph. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  7. ^ "SKY Advisory". Mysky.com.ph. October 28, 2018. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  8. ^ Terrado, Reuben (January 1, 2019). "NBA Premium and BTV are back in SKYcable's channel lineup". Spin.ph. Retrieved October 14, 2019.