NBA TV
SDTV feed) | |
Ownership | |
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Owner | National Basketball Association (operated by TNT Sports) |
Sister channels | MLB Network Motor Trend |
History | |
Launched | November 2, 1999 |
Former names | NBA.com TV (1999–2003) |
Links | |
Website | NBAtv |
Availability | |
NBA TV is an American
History
The network launched on 2 November 1999
The network mainly launched with two purposes; to serve as a barker channel for the league's out-of-market sports package NBA League Pass, along with featuring statistical and scoring information which was more easily accessible in the pre-broadband age, and it featured mainly archival content from the NBA Entertainment archives in its upper pane to fill programming time. As time went on, the network added more programming, including international basketball leagues and programming from FIBA usually unseen in the American market. The programming mix and channel format changed around the same time of the CNN/SI shutdown.
On October 8, 2007, it was reported that the National Basketball Association would transfer the channel's operations to Time Warner's
Turner took over the channel's operations on October 28, 2008, and began using the same announcers and analysts used on TNT's NBA telecasts.[3] Analysis and news programming also received an upgrade, with production of the programs being relocated to Studio B at Turner Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, located adjacent to Studio J, where TNT's post-game program Inside the NBA is broadcast. The repeats of NBA games on TBS and TNT began in 2009, as NBA Classics.
Carriage agreements
On April 16, 2009, DirecTV announced that it had reached a carriage agreement with the NBA to continue carrying NBA TV, moving it (and out-of-market sports package NBA League Pass) from the satellite provider's Sports Pack add-on tier to its lower-priced Choice Xtra base package on October 1, 2009. DirecTV believed the move will make the channel available to an additional eight million subscribers.[4]
On June 4, 2009,
With all of the above carriage deals, the NBA estimates that it would increase NBA TV's overall subscriber reach to 45 million pay television homes.
NBA TV is not available to legacy
As of June 2023[update], the channel was available in 38.6 million homes in the United States.[9]
Programming
NBA TV offers news programs devoted to basketball daily, in addition to programs showcasing the lives of individual basketball players, documentaries focusing on a particular NBA team during the season and archived broadcasts of well-known games.
NBA TV carries at least 90 regular season games per season, which typically air four days a week during the NBA season (mainly on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, although occasional Wednesday, Friday and Sunday games may air in the event that ESPN does not hold rights to coverage on those nights), as well as some first-round playoff games. It also carries its own coverage of the NBA draft.
Live games on NBA TV are subject to local blackout restrictions, since NBA TV (despite being owned by the league) does not hold the exclusive broadcast rights to any of its games. Games carried by NBA TV are also carried by each team's local rights holder, either a regional sports network or a broadcast television station.
The network also shows international games, typically on Saturday evenings, with special emphasis on the
The channel's flagship program is NBA Gametime Live, a program focusing on news headlines within the NBA and related leagues (including the WNBA and G League), highlights and look-ins at games currently in progress presented by a host and studio analysts. The show airs live six days a week, deferring any TNT game nights outside the playoffs to repeating that evening's edition of Inside the NBA. An edited 90-minute version of the broadcast is repeated during the overnight and early morning hours.
On October 11, 2017, it was announced that the Players Only franchise, which made its debut last season on
Beginning 2021, NBA TV began to broadcast a package of men's and women's Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) college basketball games in February as an observance of Black History Month. This marked NBA TV's first broadcasts of college basketball games.[13][14]
List of programs broadcast by NBA TV
- 10 Before Tip
- 3DTV
- Beyond The Paint
- Books and Basketball
- Courtside Cinema
- Game Of The Day
- #Handles
- Hardwood Classics (1999–present)
- High Tops: Plays of the Month
- Inside the NBA (2003–present) (encore telecasts within 12 hours of original airing on TNT)
- NBA 360
- NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad
- NBA Action (2003–present)
- NBA Basketballography
- NBA.com Fantasy Insider
- NBA CrunchTime – focuses on live NBA games till the buzzer, includes CrunchTime Alert, similar to NBA Scores
- NBA Fit
- NBA Gametime Live (2008–present)
- NBA Gametime Live Specials (e.g. mock draft, free agent updates, season previews, trade deadline updates, playoff previews)
- NBA Home Video
- NBA Hoop Party
- NBA Inside Stuff (2013–2016)
- NBA Jam
- NBA Journeys
- NBA Presents
- NBA Slideshow
- NBA Specials
- NBA TV Top 10 Games of the Week
- NBA TV Marquee Matchup
- NBA TV Originals
- NBA Vault
- NBA Wired
- Open Court
- Playoff Playback
- Real NBA
- Real Training Camp
- Shaqtin' a Fool (2013–present)
- The Beat
- The Starters (2006–2019)
- Vintage NBA
- WNBA Action
High definition
NBA TV HD is a 1080i high-definition simulcast feed of NBA TV that is available on most providers. All studio programs and original programs are shot in HD, and all live games and recent game rebroadcasts are televised in HD. The high-definition version of this channel was launched in 2007.
Personalities
The studio host and analysts vary on each night's broadcast of NBA Gametime.
Studio hosts and play-by-play
- Andre Aldridge (2005–present)
- Brian Anderson (2014–present)
- Kevin Calabro (2012–2014, 2022–present)
- Vince Cellini (2009–present)
- Scott Cole (2018–present)
- Spero Dedes (2003–present)
- Ian Eagle (2012–present)
- Kevin Frazier (2021–present)
- Michael Grady (2021–present)
- Jared Greenberg (2011–present)
- Bob Fitzgerald (2020–present)
- Ernie Johnson (2008–present)
- Rick Kamla (2002–present)
- Kristen Ledlow (2016–present)
- Allie LaForce (2018–present)
- Adam Lefkoe (2020–present)
- Joel Meyers (2020–present)
- Chris Miles (2018–present)
- Ro Parrish (2016–present)
- Pete Pranica (2018–present)
- Ahmad Rashad (2007–present)
- Stephanie Ready (2018–present)
- Kevin Ray (2019–present)
- Casey Stern (2015–present)
- Matt Winer (2010–present)
- Nabil Karim (2022-present)
- Kelly Crull (2023-present)
- Ashley ShahAhmadi (Sideline Reporter for 1st round of 2023 NBA Playoffs 2023-present)
Studio analysts and color commentators
- David Aldridge (2008–present)
- Greg Anthony (2010–present)
- Brent Barry (2009–present)
- Vinny Del Negro (2013–present)
- Rick Fox (2010–present)
- Mike Fratello (2008–present)
- Channing Frye (2020–present)
- Brendan Haywood (2016–present)
- Grant Hill (2016–present)
- Stu Jackson (2016–present)
- Bernard King (2010–present)
- Brevin Knight (2009–present)
- Kyle Korver (2021–present)
- Kevin McHale (2009–2011; 2016–present)
- Sam Mitchell (2008–2010; 2013–2015, 2016–present)
- Shaquille O'Neal (2011–present)
- Candace Parker (2018–present)
- Morris Peterson (2011–present)
- Dennis Scott (2009–present)
- Kenny Smith (2008–present)
- Steve Smith (2008–present)
- Isiah Thomas (2012–present)
- Dwyane Wade (2019–present)
- Chris Webber (2008–present)
- Lloyd Pierce (2023-present)
Contributors
- Joe Borgia
- Sekou Smith
- Lang Whitaker
Other hosts
- The Starters (2006–2019)
- Leigh Ellis
- Trey Kerby
- Tas Melas
- J. E. Skeets
- NBA Inside Stuff (2013–2016)
Former hosts and analysts
- Marv Albert (2010)
- Derrick Coleman (2009)
- Antonio Davis (2008–2012)
- LaPhonso Ellis (2009)
- Marc Fein (2008–2011)
- Lawrence Frank (2010)
- Matt Harpring (2010)
- Lionel Hollins (2013)
- Eddie Jordan (2008–2009)
- Tracy McGrady (2013)
- Kyle Montgomery[15] (2009–2013)
- Gary Payton (2008–2009)
- Scot Pollard (2009–2014)
- Syleys Roberts (2012–2015)
- Byron Scott (2013)
- Eric Snow (2008–2010)
- Jerry Stackhouse (2010–2016)
- Reggie Theus (2008–2009)
- Stan Van Gundy (2019–2020)
NBA TV International
NBA TV International is a feed of NBA TV available in countries outside the United States, utilizing the same studio for analysis and commentary segments and taped programming (except for
- Sky Italia (Italy)
- Sky Deutschland (Austria and Germany)
- Sky Switzerland (Switzerland)
- DirecTV (South America)
- Canal+ (France)
- TV8 until 2017; Saran Holding since 2017 (Turkey)
- NTV Plus (Russia)
- OTE TV (Greece)
- Flow (Argentina)
- MEO since February 2017 (Portugal)
- Telkom (Indonesia)
- Rakuten (Japan)
- TrueVisions (Thailand)
- Tencent (Mainland China)
- LG U+ (South Korea)
- Starhub (Singapore)
- )
- StarTimes (2013-2016); Kwesé Sports (2017-2019) (Sub-Saharan Africa)
- Mts TV (Serbia)
- BT Consumer, Sky UK and Ireland and Virgin Media (United Kingdom and Ireland)
- Kujtesa; ArtMotion; IPKO (Kosovo)
NBA TV Canada, the Canadian version of the channel, carries some of the same game broadcasts as the flagship U.S. service, ESPN, and TNT instead of the secondary game package found on NBA TV International.
On 16 October 2010, NBA Premium TV was launched in the Philippines. It was a redirect broadcast of NBA TV and aired locally televised and nationally televised games in the United States. It went defunct on 1 October 2019, almost 9 years after it existed.
In February 2012, NBA TV International was made available on NBA.TV as an internet subscription channel outside the United States.
On beIN Channels Network in the Arab world, NBA TV is not available, though beIN Sports NBA airs some of the same games.
On 31 July 2020, the Philippine version of the channel, NBA TV Philippines, was launched.[16]
Past playoff broadcast criticism
NBA TV was criticized in the past for its first-round playoff coverage merely passing down the broadcast of a game from a regional sports network for national broadcast, amplifying the chosen team's broadcast and bias for said team to a national level.[17][18] Beginning with the 2011–12 playoffs, NBA TV began to produce a full and neutral national broadcast for those games.[19]
See also
- List of current National Basketball Association broadcasters
- NBL TV
References
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- ^ "Turner promotes NBA digital menu". October 6, 2008. Retrieved October 15, 2008.
- ^ NBA TV scores multiyear distribution deal with DirecTV – Pact gives network berth on DBS leader's choice xtra package Multichannel News April 16, 2009
- ^ NBA TV jumps to broader Comcast carriage – Pro Hoops Network moves from sports tier to MSO's digital classic Multichannel News June 4, 2009
- ^ a b NBA digital signs deal with FiOS for NBA TV and NBA League Pass TVWeek.com September 23, 2009
- ^ NBA TV secures new agreements with TWC, Cablevision and Dish – League-owned network to reach 45 million homes this season Broadcasting and Cable October 22, 2009
- ^ AT&T U-Verse tips off carriage of NBA TV – league-owned network available on telco's U300 package, HD tier Multichannel News October 29, 2010
- ^ Robert Seidman (June 4, 2023). "How many homes the sports networks are available in". Internet Compost.
- NBA.com. Archived from the originalon October 20, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ release, Official. "NBA TV to feature 106-game schedule during 2017–18 season". NBA.com. Retrieved December 30, 2019.
- ^ release, Official. "NBA TV to Feature 107 Game Schedule, Including a New Tuesday Night Marquee Game of the Week – NBA TV Center Court – for 2019-20 Season". WarnerMediaGroup.com. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
- ^ "NBA TV to showcase HBCU games in Celebration of Black History Month". www.nba.com. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
- ^ Myerberg, Paul. "NBA TV will televise two HBCU basketball games in honor of Black History Month". USA TODAY. Retrieved February 5, 2022.
- ^ "Turner Newsroom: NBA.com Host Kyle Montgomery". Archived from the original on October 15, 2011. Retrieved March 11, 2011.
- ^ "NBA games return to Philippine television via Cignal-Smart collab". Spin.ph. Retrieved January 7, 2021.
- ^ Yoder, Matt (April 27, 2011). "Gary Neal's Buzzer Beater And The Sounds Of Silence". Awful Announcing. Bloguin. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
- ^ Yoder, Matt (April 23, 2011). "Should NBATV Use Local Announcers For Playoff Games?". Awful Announcing. Bloguin. Retrieved May 2, 2011.
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