NBA TV is an American sports-oriented cable and satellite television network owned by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and operated by Turner Broadcasting Systems subsidiary of AT & amp; T Inc.; The NBA also uses the network as a way to advertise sports packages outside the market from league, NBA League Pass, and TNT partner channels. Dedicated to basketball, the network features regular exhibitions, regular seasons and playoff playoffs from NBAs and associated professional basketball leagues, as well as NBA related content including analytics, specials and documentaries. The network also serves as the national broadcaster of the NBA G League and WNBA matches. NBA TV is the oldest cable network in North America to be owned or controlled by a professional sports league, launched on March 17, 1999.
As of January 2016, NBA TV is available for approximately 53.8 million households in America. The highest measured audience is the Golden State Warriors vs. San Antonio Spurs regular season match on April 10, 2016 with an average of 2.6 million viewers.
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The network was launched on March 17, 1999 as nba.com TV ; channel, dubbed NBA TV on February 11, 2003, originally operated from a studio facility housed in NBA Entertainment in Secaucus, New Jersey. The network signed a multi-year transport agreement with three of the five largest US cable providers, Cox Communications, Cablevision, and Time Warner Cable, on June 28, 2003; this extends network coverage to 45 million pay-TV households in the US, in addition to distribution in 30 countries around the world. After Time Warner closed the CNN/SI sports news network in 2002, many cable providers replaced the network with NBA TV.
This network is mainly launched with two goals; to serve as a connecting channel for off-the-shelf sports packages outside the NBA League Pass, along with displaying statistical and scoring information more accessible at pre-broadband age, and its key feature is archived content from the NBA Entertainment archive in its top panel to fill programming time. Over time, the network added more programs, including international basketball leagues and programming from FIBA âââ ⬠<â ⬠On October 8, 2007, it was reported that the National Basketball Association will transfer its channel operations to Time Warner's Turner Sports division (operated by a subsidiary of Turner Broadcasting System). Turner took over channel operations on October 28, 2008, and began using the same broadcaster and analyst used on the NBA TNT broadcast. Analysis and news programs also receive enhancements, with production of programs transferred to Studio B at Turner Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, located near Studio J, where the TNT post-game program In the NBA is a broadcast. Maps NBA TV
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On April 16, 2009, DirecTV announced that it had reached a train deal with the NBA to continue bringing the NBA TV, move it (and off-of-market NBA League Pass sports packets) from Sports Packer Sports Pack adder to the Xtra Choice base package the price is cheaper on October 1, 2009. DirecTV believes that the move will make the channel available to an additional eight million subscribers.
On June 4, 2009, Comcast announced that it had reached an agreement with the NBA to move channels from the Cable Sports Entertainment Package to the basic Digital Classic package, at the start of the 2009-10 NBA season. Like DirecTV, Comcast estimates that an additional eight million subscribers will effectively gain access to the channel. Verizon FiOS added the channel and the NBA League Pass to its system on September 23, 2009. The network also signed a new multi-year agreement with Time Warner Cable, Cablevision and Dish Network on October 22, 2009, as well as an extension agreement with Cox Communications earlier this year.
With all the above carriage deals, the NBA estimates that it will boost overall NBA TV subscribers to 45 million cable and satellite television homes. On October 29, 2010, AT & amp; T U-verse reached a train agreement to bring standard definition channels and high definition feeds.
NBA TV is not available to customers Communication The older charter used an outdated billing package, which brought the network as NBA.com TV before 2004, due to unknown train conflicts; The NBA League Pass was also not brought by the Charter (on May 18, 2016, the Charter acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks for $ 78.7 billion, both of which brought the network). NBA TV is available for Charter households when available in February 2017, if customers switch to a new 'Spectrum' billing plan that unites the Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks under the Spectrum brand (these are all unrelated to the Charter inherited naming rights home arena of the Charlotte Hornets', Spectrum Center).
Programming
NBA TV offers news programs devoted to basketball every day, in addition to programs featuring the lives of individual basketball players, documentaries that focus on certain NBA teams during the season and archive broadcasts from famous games.
NBA TV brings at least 90 regular season games per season, which usually airs four days a week during the NBA season (especially on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays, although occasional games Wednesday, Friday and Sunday can be aired if ESPN has no right to cover those nights), as well as some first-round playoff games.
Direct games on NBA TV are subject to local blackout restrictions, as NBA TV (although owned by the league) does not have exclusive broadcasting rights for any of its games. The games carried by NBA TV are also performed by individual team owners, either regional sports networks or broadcast television stations.
Beginning with the 2012-13 season, the scoreboard displayed during the NBA TV game coverage (shown at the bottom left corner of the screen) changes to a horizontally-oriented banner format on the screen. However, the network does not use the timeout or bonus indicators as seen in the score charts used on ESPN and TNT.
The network also features international matches, usually on Saturday nights, with special emphasis on Euroleague and Maccabi Tel Aviv's Israel team. In April 2005, NBA TV aired the final of the Chinese Basketball Association for the first time.
The channel's flagship program is NBA Gametime Live , a program that focuses on headlines in NBA and related leagues (including WNBA and National Basketball Development League), highlights and views on the ongoing game presented by a host and studio analyst. The show airs six days a week, delaying every night of TNT games outside the playoffs to repeat that night's edition Inside the NBA . The 90-minute version of the edited broadcast is repeated during the hour and night.
On October 11, 2017, it was announced that the Just Players franchise, which debuted last season on TNT, will feature live matches on the NBA TV, starting October 24, 2017 and every Tuesday after that, for the first half of the 2017- 18 before switching to TNT for the rest of the regular season starting January 23, 2018.
List of programs broadcast by NBA TV
- 10 Before Tip
- 3DTV
- Beyond The Paint
- Courtside Cinema
- Game Of The Day
- Classic Hardwood
- High Peak: Plays This Month
- Inside the NBA (show the broadcast within 12 hours of airing on TNT)
- NBA Actions
- NBA CrunchTime - focuses on live NBA matches up to buzz, including CrunchTime Alert, similar to NBA Scoring
- NBA Gametime Live
- NBA Gametime Live Specials (e.g draft copy, free agent update, season preview, trade limit update, playoff preview)
- NBA Inside Stuff
- NBA TV Marquee Matchup
- NBA TV Originals
- Open Court
- Playoff Playoff
- Shaqtin 'a Fool
- Starter
High definition
NBA HD TV is a 1080i high definition simulcast feed from NBA TV available in most providers. All original studio and programming programs are taken in HD, and all the live games as well as the latest re-broadcasts are broadcast in HD. As long as certain programs are not available in HD (like old game recordings), unique styled pillarboxes are used, displaying the NBA logo with the text "NBA TV" underneath, or alternatively, only side-oriented "NBA TV" in black and gray.
Personality
Hosts and studio analysts vary in every night NBA Gametime .
Studio host & amp; play-by-play
- Andre Aldridge (2005-present)
- Greg Anthony (2017-present)
- Vince Cellini (2009-present)
- Spero Dedes (2003-present)
- Ian Eagle (2012-present)
- Jared Greenberg (2011-now)
- Ernie Johnson (2008-present)
- Rick Kamla (2002-present)
- Kristen Ledlow (2016-present)
- Chris Miles (2018-now)
- Pete Pranica (2018-now)
- Ahmad Rashad (2007-present)
- Casey Stern (2015-present)
- Matt Winer (2010-present)
Analyst & amp; Studio; color commentator
- David Aldridge (2008-present)
- Greg Anthony (2010-present)
- Brent Barry (2009-present)
- Vinny Del Negro (2013-present)
- Rick Fox (2010-present)
- Mike Fratello (2008-present)
- Brendan Haywood (2016-now)
- Grant Hill (2016-now)
- Stu Jackson (2016-now)
- Kevin McHale (2009-2011; 2016-present)
- Sam Mitchell (2008-2010; 2013-2015, 2016-present)
- Shaquille O'Neal (2011-now)
- Brevin Knight (2009-present)
- Morris Peterson (2011-now)
- Bernard King (2010-present)
- Dennis Scott (2009-present)
- Kenny Smith (2008-present)
- Steve Smith (2008-present)
- Isiah Thomas (2012-present)
- Chris Webber (2008-present)
Contributors
- Joe Borgia
- Sekou Smith
- Just Whitaker
Other hosts
- Beginners
- Leigh Ellis
- Trey Kerby
- Wrapping Bag
- J. E. Skeets
- NBA Inside Stuff
- Grant Hill
- Kristen Ledlow
Former hosts and analysts
- Marv Albert (2010)
- Brian Anderson (2014)
- Kevin Calabro (2012-2014)
- Derrick Coleman (2009)
- Antonio Davis (2008-2012)
- LaPhonso Ellis (2009)
- Marc Fein (2008-2011)
- Lawrence Frank (2010)
- Matt Harpring (2010)
- Lionel Hollins (2013)
- Eddie Jordan (2008-2009)
- Tracy McGrady (2013)
- Kyle Montgomery (2009-2013)
- Gary Payton (2008-2009)
- Scot Pollard (2009-2014)
- Syleys Roberts (2012-2015)
- Byron Scott (2013)
- Eric Snow (2008-2010)
- Jerry Stackhouse (2010-2016)
- Reggie Theus (2008-2009)
NBA TV International
NBA TV International is a NBA TV feed available in countries outside of the United States, utilizing the same studio for the analysis and comment segments as well as recorded programming (except for FIBA ââevents and highlights), but mostly featuring different line of games from the channel US. NBA TV International shows one or two matches per day, with the exception of the NBA playoffs (except round 1 and 2 playoffs) including the conference finals and the NBA Finals and most of the nationally aired national games (as seen on ABC, TNT, ESPN and US feeds from NBA TV); the rights to these games are actually sold to domestic television networks in each region.
In 2010, NBA TV International can be viewed in 40 countries through the following partners:
- DirecTV (Latin America)
- Canalsat (France)
- TV8 (Turkey)
- NTV Plus (Russia)
- OTE TV (Greece)
- CablevisiÃÆ'ón (Argentina)
- NOS (Portugal) through 2015; MEO since February 2017
- First Media (Indonesia)
- TrueVisions (Thailand)
- Startimes (Sub-Saharan Africa)
NBA TV Canada, the Canadian version of the channel, carries several of the same game broadcasts as a flagship US service, ESPN and TNT, not a secondary game package found on NBA TV International.
In October 2010, NBA Premium TV was launched in the Philippines. This is a broadcast redirect from NBA TV and airs a local and national television game broadcast on television in the United States.
In February 2012, NBA TV International was made available on NBA.TV as an Internet subscription channel outside the United States.
On the BeIN Channel Network in the Arab World, NBA TV itself is not available. However, BeIN Sports NBA is a separate channel in HD that airs several games broadcast on NBA TV.
Previous playoff criticism
NBA TV was criticized in the past for first-round playoff coverage leaving only broadcast games from regional sports networks to national broadcasts, strengthening selected team broadcasts and bias for the team to the national level. Beginning with the 2011-12 playoffs, NBA TV began to produce full and neutral national broadcasts for the games.
See also
- List of National Basketball Association presenters
References
External links
- The official NBA TV website
- NBA HD TV Schedule
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