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

[Jplaya2023]

The CFP playoff should just be the best 12 teams period. No auto bids, just have the committee or hell tweak the bcs and have that select the 12 best teams

 

[dh86]

The CFP playoff should just be the best 12 teams period. No auto bids, just have the committee or hell tweak the bcs and have that select the 12 best teams

I think they have to have the auto bid element, otherwise what’s to stop Bama, Georgia, OSU, Mich from resting starters at the end of every season

 

[beenz]

@K-Apps

Sure sounds like NBA remaining with Warner Bros Discovery is a done deal

that's a no brainer. TNT just reupped the deals with the entire cast of inside the NBA getting over $10M a year. u think they are gonna pay them and then NOT retain the NBA???

 

[Jplaya2023]

I think they have to have the auto bid element, otherwise what’s to stop Bama, Georgia, OSU, Mich from resting starters at the end of every season

Seeding. and getting a bye week. They fukked up because the higher seed should have homefield advantage in EVERY ROUND not just in round 1.So rest if you want and end up playing a michigan in January in 25 degree weather and 2ft of snow

 

[K-Apps]

 

[K-Apps]

Here is that SBJ article:

Team executives left the NBA All-Star Game expecting the league to strike media rights deals this summer worth between $60 billion and $72 billion and that the In-Season Tournament likely will be “bundled” to winning bidders rather than handed entirely to one network.

The league’s previous media rights deal in 2014 with Disney and Turner was worth a combined $24 billion, and team executives briefed in Indianapolis on preliminary negotiations believe the new deal — with likely three linear networks and a streaming entity — will grow 2.5 or 3 times over.

ESPN/ABC, Turner, NBC and Amazon Prime Video are considered the leading candidates. But NBA officials refuse to get specific on the projected rights fees or bidders and continue to emphasize that official talks have not yet begun.

While Disney and Turner have staged preliminary discussions with the NBA for months, their exclusive negotiating window with the league runs from March 9 through April 22. After that, the NBA can formally negotiate with all parties, including NBC, Amazon and Apple.

While heartened by the potential of those negotiations, individual teams — particularly the 15 teams connected to the Diamond regional sports networks — are concerned about a 16% reduction in local rights fees as part of what several called a “handshake agreement” between the NBA and Diamond.

The agreement involves the league taking back the rights of all Diamond teams after this season, while allowing teams to simulcast as many as 10 games this year on free over-the-air TV in their local markets. Franchises such as the Mavericks, Hawks, Pelicans, Bucks and Cavaliers have already gone that route. But while some team executives see that as a way to earn back lost revenue from the 16% reduction, Diamond’s fluid bankruptcy situation also leaves them unsettled about next year.

With the new media rights deal set to begin in 2025-26, those 15 Diamond teams have a one-year bridge season of 2024-25 to find a local over-the-air broadcast partner or strike a one-year deal with their current Diamond-owned Bally RSN. The Timberwolves, who have the second-highest local ratings in the league this season, will likely renew for one year with Bally Sports North. But most of the other 15 teams lament the fact that Diamond, which has gained $115 million in support from Amazon, will not be refiling its restructuring proposal in bankruptcy court until March 22. That means a resolution may not be reached until June or July, leaving most of those teams with little time to find an over-the-air broadcasting house, similar to what the Jazz and Suns did, for the 2024-25 season.

“I keep on asking, ‘What is going on?’” one team executive said. “You’ve put us in a tough spot. We don’t want to be in a spot where we’re sitting here in June and July with no solution on how to broadcast and what the deal is to get it done. … It’s the timing. Right now, we have no rights. Teams are legally bound to Diamond and Bally. So, literally, we wouldn’t even have the right to form a partnership with an over-the-air solution next year. We’re kind of in no-man’s land.”

 

[MikelArteta]

The CFP playoff should just be the best 12 teams period. No auto bids, just have the committee or hell tweak the bcs and have that select the 12 best teams

nah because a non power 5 time will then get hosed

 

[MikelArteta]

Here is that SBJ article:

so players will be making like 100 mill a season soon you think?

 

[In The Zone '98]

$$$$$$

NBA is dead

 

[Jplaya2023]

nah because a non power 5 time will then get hosed

Thats ok

 

[K-Apps]

 

[FakeNews]

The NBA opened its exclusive media rights negotiations with Disney and Turner on Saturday, a window that runs through April 22, and sources said Friday they believe the three sides entered talks roughly 75% in agreement on a deal based on their preliminary discussions over the past several months.

Those sources expect the Emirates NBA Cup -- formerly known as the In-Season Tournament -- to be bundled into the Disney and Turner packages after there were early expectations a streaming entity such as Apple or Netflix might pursue the entire event or at least the Emirates NBA Cup’s Final Four. Regardless, the sources contend Amazon and, to a lesser extent, Apple will be certain bidders when the exclusive window expires April 22. Amazon is expected to pursue the league’s national streaming rights, while Apple’s ‘’mystery’’ pursuit -- according to sources -- could be a bid for the SoFi Play-In Tournament or some sort of singular NBA event.

NBC is also expected to gain a portion of the NBA’s linear broadcast package, depending on the Disney and Turner deals. NBA team execs believe a final overall NBA media rights deal will be worth between $60 and $72B -- 2.5 to 3 times larger than its previous arrangement in 2014 -- and that negotiations could wrap up in June or July.

One of the more complex aspects of the deal will be the juxtaposition between Amazon’s expected streaming rights deal and local team broadcasts. Franchises value local rights fees -- even though the Diamond bankruptcy has led to a 16% reduction in fees for the 15 Bally Sports teams this season -- and negotiations after April 22 are expected to formalize how many local broadcasts will be lost to Amazon and whether the deal with Amazon will be lucrative enough to appease individual teams.

NBA opens exclusive window with Disney, Turner

The NBA opened its exclusive media rights negotiations with Disney and Turner on Saturday, a window that runs through April 22.

www.sportsbusinessjournal.com

 

[jaydawg08]

Yeah NBA players about to be rolling in the $$

Gonna eventually have multiple players with over $1 billion in career earnings

 

[Scaaar]

Sounds like tournament games and the play-ins are going to be chopped up across streaming services. I ain't mad at them for getting the bag but I'm definitely getting a fire stick if this is truly the case. All these streaming sites are more expensive then cable at this point

 

[tremonthustler1]

Sounds like tournament games and the play-ins are going to be chopped up across streaming services. I ain't mad at them for getting the bag but I'm definitely getting a fire stick if this is truly the case. All these streaming sites are more expensive then cable at this point

cut cords brehs