Seems like some think if Sony buys Paramount that CBS will be sold off and WBD might be able to get that:
New NBA Media Deal: 11 years, $77B with Disney (ABC/ESPN), Comcast (NBC/Peacock), and Amazon. ESPN to license Inside the NBA
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Seems like some think if Sony buys Paramount that CBS will be sold off and WBD might be able to get that:
AStrangeName
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He better hope and pray because if not, then Skydance comes back around and will try to get Paramount again.
Comcast owns NBCNBC is worth $30 billion.
Disney is worth $193 billion.
I think we know where this is going
Comcast is worth $150 billion
KillerPups
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Not to mention as soon as the game goes off on abc it's back to regularly scheduled programming. NHL has post game interviews and analysis for like 15 minutes. No reason NBA shouldn't have that and more
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What constitutes a ‘match’ may emerge as the deciding factor in whether Warner Bros. Discovery or Comcast ends up with the NBA’s third and final rights package.
The NBA does not believe that Warner Bros. Discovery can sufficiently match Comcast’s $2.5 billion/year bid for the league’s remaining rights package on price alone, Tom Friend of Sports Business Journal reported Thursday. Per the report, the league believes that Comcast’s NBC broadcast network and regional sports networks are elements “that WBD cannot replicate.” (It is not clear how the Comcast RSNs play into the company’s bid.)
In order to retain the rights, WBD would thus have to pay in excess of the $2.5 billion total, potentially as much as $2.8 billion per year — more than ESPN would pay for its “A” package that includes the NBA Finals ($2.6B/year) and a full billion more than Amazon would pay for its “C” package.
WBD believes that it merely has to meet NBC’s price in order to match and retain its package, and potentially could pursue legal remedies to determine exactly what the company’s matching rights entail.
The picture painted by the report is that the NBA prefers to move forward with Comcast and is in the position of trying to let WBD down easy.
As has been previously reported, Comcast would carry Sunday night NBA games on the NBC broadcast network following the NFL season. Newly reported is that Comcast could also pick up the Friday night regular season games ceded by ESPN.
In contrast to previous reporting by John Ourand of Puck, Friend indicated that the “B” package would include a conference final every year, rather than every-other-year. Ourand reported this week that the winner of the “B” package would alternate a conference final with Amazon, but per Friend, Amazon’s “C” package only includes first round playoff games.
What constitutes a ‘match’ may emerge as the deciding factor in whether Warner Bros. Discovery or Comcast ends up with the NBA’s third and final rights package.
The NBA does not believe that Warner Bros. Discovery can sufficiently match Comcast’s $2.5 billion/year bid for the league’s remaining rights package on price alone, Tom Friend of Sports Business Journal reported Thursday. Per the report, the league believes that Comcast’s NBC broadcast network and regional sports networks are elements “that WBD cannot replicate.” (It is not clear how the Comcast RSNs play into the company’s bid.)
In order to retain the rights, WBD would thus have to pay in excess of the $2.5 billion total, potentially as much as $2.8 billion per year — more than ESPN would pay for its “A” package that includes the NBA Finals ($2.6B/year) and a full billion more than Amazon would pay for its “C” package.
WBD believes that it merely has to meet NBC’s price in order to match and retain its package, and potentially could pursue legal remedies to determine exactly what the company’s matching rights entail.
The picture painted by the report is that the NBA prefers to move forward with Comcast and is in the position of trying to let WBD down easy.
As has been previously reported, Comcast would carry Sunday night NBA games on the NBC broadcast network following the NFL season. Newly reported is that Comcast could also pick up the Friday night regular season games ceded by ESPN.
In contrast to previous reporting by John Ourand of Puck, Friend indicated that the “B” package would include a conference final every year, rather than every-other-year. Ourand reported this week that the winner of the “B” package would alternate a conference final with Amazon, but per Friend, Amazon’s “C” package only includes first round playoff games.
That sounds about right about the B package. I still wonder if Comcast can broker a deal with Disney to get the Finals in 2028, 2032, and 2036 as those are Olympic years. A trade or financial agreement could made to get those years. It would perfect to have Finals in June into Olympics in July imo.
