US regional sports network Fox Sports Midwest acquired live rights for NBA basketball games featuring the Indiana Pacers.
The deal will run until the end of the 2012-13 season, with 38 of the team’s remaining 50 games set to be shown, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper.
Fox Sports Midwest general manager Jack Donovan said: “We wanted to get this up and running at the start of the NBA season.” He added that the regional broadcaster, which is part of the Fox Sports division of US network Fox, would like to offer “games on every night of the week” featuring various local teams.