NBA approves new media deals with Disney (ABC/ESPN), Comcast (NBC), and Amazon for 11 years, $77 billion. Update: NBA REJECTS WBD's (TNT Sports) deal

[Rell84shots]

 

[CHICAGO]

THEYRE TRYING TO MAKE SURE
THEY GET AS MUCH SPORTS
AS POSSIBLE TO COVER FOR
THE LOSS OF THE NBA
SO THEY CAN STILL GET IN
ON THAT ESPN/FOX SPORTS APP



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[FukkaPaidEmail]

NBA hasn’t been happy with WBD since the merger happened. A lot of longtime execs that the NBA had good relationships with have left coupled Zaslav’s comments, cost cutting, and declining cable industry and this is why NBA is likely walking away.

That article is bullshyt

Everything they claim Zaslav has done Disney has done worse .

Silver doesn’t like zaslav and wants to take Igers role when he leaves .

Just say what it is .

 

[CHICAGO]

Silver wants to take Igers role when he leaves .

Just say what it is .

THIS IS WHAT I SAID
FROM THE START.

IF SILVER IS GONNA RUN DISNEY
IT MAKES THE MOST SENSE
TO MAKE SURE THEY STILL
HAVE THE NBA WHEN HE TAKES OVER.


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[Saysumthinfunnymike]

$650M over 10 years isn't a lot of money for the French Open. It comes on at weird hours. Whatever it does, it does. It's probably more valuable for Max to have the French Open than whether it airs on TNT or not..

 

[The_Sheff]

Just give TNT the Tuesday night games and be done with it. TNT gets games on a night people are used to watching them, you get to keep Inside the NBA, and everyone gets to be happy.

 

[Rakpo98]

Just give TNT the Tuesday night games and be done with it. TNT gets games on a night people are used to watching them, you get to keep Inside the NBA, and everyone gets to be happy.

Can’t do Tuesday nights, because that’s the night that NBC wants to air games (along with Sundays). If TNT is somehow able to get a 4th package, it’s probably going to be an NBA TV like package, where it’s only Monday nights and they get the NBA TV 1st round playoff game specials (Magic, Pacers, Thunder, etc). Considering their current position on the outside looking in, that would probably be as good as you can get.

 

[Rigby.]

Can’t do Tuesday nights, because that’s the night that NBC wants to air games (along with Sundays). If TNT is somehow able to get a 4th package, it’s probably going to be an NBA TV like package, where it’s only Monday nights and they get the NBA TV 1st round playoff game specials (Magic, Pacers, Thunder, etc). Considering their current position on the outside looking in, that would probably be as good as you can get.

May be even worse than just losing the league

 

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[Harry B]

$650M over 10 years isn't a lot of money for the French Open. It comes on at weird hours. Whatever it does, it does. It's probably more valuable for Max to have the French Open than whether it airs on TNT or not..

What do you mean with a lot?

There's like 8 relevant players per sex.

NBA teams of this 76 billion get 200m per year for 10 months, this is 65m where a majority goes to those 16 players for 2 weeks.
Completely different structure.

What is much money or not is the return on invested capital.

 

[RAX 010]

NBA views gonna drop for the first few years because we are creatures of habit

Whoever can pay Shaq Chuck Kenny and Earnie will be King

 

[FAH1223]

Just give TNT the Tuesday night games and be done with it. TNT gets games on a night people are used to watching them, you get to keep Inside the NBA, and everyone gets to be happy.

Can’t do Tuesday nights, because that’s the night that NBC wants to air games (along with Sundays). If TNT is somehow able to get a 4th package, it’s probably going to be an NBA TV like package, where it’s only Monday nights and they get the NBA TV 1st round playoff game specials (Magic, Pacers, Thunder, etc). Considering their current position on the outside looking in, that would probably be as good as you can get.

ESPN isn’t airing Friday night games in the new TV deal.

They could put TNT games there.

How many times this season did you see NBATV air games on Fridays when ESPN wasn’t? It was quite a few times.

And it’s not without precedent





And yes that’s Ernie narrating the 2nd video

 

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BOSTON -- Lost in the complicated NBA media rights negotiations -- which are now mostly in the hands of lawyers -- is the WNBA’s pertinent place at the same bargaining table. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver confirmed to SBJ Friday that Disney, Amazon, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery are all bidding for both leagues, but that the burgeoning WNBA is independently able to pursue other more lucrative deals elsewhere.

The WNBA and NBA currently have just one joint broadcast partner: Disney, which reportedly pays roughly $40M of The W’s current $60M domestic media rights deal. The WNBA’s simultaneous deals with Amazon Prime Video, CBS and ION -- along with Disney -- expire following the 2025 season, leaving Commissioner Cathy Engelbert’s negotiators the ability to re-up with presumptive future NBA partners Disney and Amazon and also hand-pick among NBC, WBD, CBS, ION or perhaps others.

“We are negotiating NBA and WNBA extensions for the most part jointly,’’ Silver said. “But those are arm-length negotiations across the table. And for those media partners or prospective media partners, they need to do their own valuations as to precisely how they value the WNBA and what kind of distribution they're planning to give it.

“I'll just add that, unlike the NBA deals, which will be all encompassing at least in the United States, ... the greatest likelihood is the WNBA will share the NBA media partners, plus have the opportunity to have some additional national partners, as well.’’

Clearly driven by Caitlin Clark’s arrival to the Indiana Fever, the WNBA has set league viewership records this season for partners ESPN, ION, CBS and league-owned NBA TV -- likely leading to an exorbitant upcoming rights deal.

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Warner Bros. Discovery’s acquisition of U.S. rights to the French Open -- ironically supplanting NBC, which simultaneously appears to be outbidding WBD for the NBA -- appears to be another sign that CEO David Zaslav realizes he needs to replace NBA programming. One industry source called WBD’s deal to televise first-round games of the College Football Playoffs, as well as the French Open, “a hedge’’ against losing the NBA.

Other sources familiar with WBD’s thinking maintain the network believes it can match Amazon’s $1.8B bid for an NBA package or carve out a smaller, fourth package -- perhaps Thursday nights only. However, sources familiar with negotiations said the NBA is not generally interested in having a fourth package, which the league believes would dampen other lucrative bids from NBC or Amazon, while otherwise creating too many NBA outlets for fans to keep track of (Tom Friend, SBJ).

@FAH1223 Lowkey, the WNBA On NBC theme was underrated, would love to hear it again

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Bald headed fakkit is leaving some money on the table here. The WNBA should be completely separated from the NBA in this negotiating process because there will not be a time where networks/streamers value the potential of the league more than they do now...

 

[FAH1223]

@FAH1223 Lowkey, the WNBA On NBC theme was underrated, would love to hear it again

Bald headed fakkit is leaving some money on the table here. The WNBA should be completely separated from the NBA in this negotiating process because there will not be a time where networks/streamers value the potential of the league more than they do now...

If you read the article, the WNBA's deals with CBS, ESPN, Prime Video and ION are done after 2025.

They'll still have Disney as a partner due to the NBA.

But they will be able to get new deals on their own. And the fact that you have Comcast, WBD and the incumbents are trying to re-up is good for the league. They should be able to double their rights fees easily.