This article is about Cignal-owned television network for its basketball league. For Solar-owned television network for the same basketball league, see NBA Premium TV. For American version, see NBA TV. For the Canadian version, see NBA TV Canada.
sports-oriented network owned by MediaQuest Holdings through its subsidiary Cignal TV. The channel is a joint venture between Cignal and NBA TV and is a live simulcast broadcast of NBA TV, the league's dedicated channel in the United States.[1][2][3][4]
Upon the expiration of the decade-long contract of
NBA, Sky of ABS-CBN Corporation and Cignal TV of TV5 Philippines in their joint statement said that they were jointly negotiating directly with the NBA to make games and programming available to millions of fans in the Philippines.[5][6]
However, Sky and ABS-CBN
Corporation later dropped out of the bid due to its
issue on legislative franchise renewal which led both ABS-CBN and its sister station, an all-sports channel S+A ceased broadcast on free-to-air television on May 5, 2020, as well as the dissolution of its sports division on August 31, 2020, as part of the company's retrenchment after the denial of its franchise renewal,[7] leaving Cignal as a sole bidder.[1][2]
On the start of the
2019-20 NBA season, the NBA was left without broadcast partner in the Philippines, they temporarily streamed their games in the NBA Philippines page via Facebook Watch and Twitter, it was only on November 16 when NBA temporarily went onto an agreement with CNN Philippines to air their games albeit only on weekends, the broadcast of games continued throughout the 2020 NBA All-Star Game.[8]
After months of negotiations on July 27, 2020, Cignal TV announced the multi-year partnership deal with the NBA, on the announcement it was also mentioned that the provider will launch the channel along with the airing of games through its free-to-air channels,
Cignal plans to offer the channel for syndication to other cable operators.[4]
In addition, the deal would allow Smart Communications to provide a livestreaming of NBA TV Philippines on Smart's official website for Smart prepaid and TNT subscribers with GigaVideo subscription, as well as for Smart Signature postpaid subscribers. The livestream, however, is separate from the league's own streaming service NBA League Pass.[4]
The deal with Cignal TV was renewed in September 2023, ahead of the
Pilipinas Live will broadcast NBA and NBA 2K League games that are aired on the network's television channels.[9]
Viva Entertainment 2Partnership agreement with ESPN Inc. 3Joint venture with NBA TV 4 Joint venture with APT Entertainment 5Joint venture with the UAAP