The NBA officially revealed Wednesday that Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon will be its new broadcasting partners from 2025 through 2036.
ESPN will retain its rights, while NBC and Amazon will join as new broadcast partners starting for the 2025-26 season. The league“Our new global media agreements with Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon will maximize the reach and accessibility of NBA games for fans in the United States and around the world,” said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in a written statement.
TNT, which has aired games since 1988, will enter its 37th and final year of coverage with the 2024-25 season. Warner Bros. Discover, TNT's parent company, initiallyESPN/ABC will air the NBA Finals, a conference final , weekly primetime games , all five Christmas Day games and therights since 2003, when it took over for NBC. ESPN will retain the rights to the All-Star Celebrity Game, NBA Draft, NBA Draft Lottery and half of all Summer League games.
John Tesh, composer of the NBA on NBC theme song, discusses its origins, hearing it for the first time and even performs the song.concludes, plus two primetime windows a week and conference semifinals. NBC also takes over the NBA All-Star Weekend festivities from TNT., Amazon is entering the basketball world with the In-Season Tournament, Play-In Tournament, first-round playoff games and the WNBA streaming live on Prime Video.
NBC and Amazon will alternate showing a conference finals series , while ESPN wins guaranteed a conference finals series in 10 of 11 years.
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