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The format change of the National Basketball Association All-Star Game has proven a hit with fans, with TV ratings for this year's event at Chicago's United Center averaging 7
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TNT has announced it will broadcast the untimed fourth quarter of this weekend's National Basketball Association All-Star Game, which will honor the late Kobe Bryant, commercial-free for the first time
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Brooklyn Nets owner Joseph Tsai has expressed his desire for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV to resume its coverage of the NBA basketball league amid the continued fallout caused by a tweet sent last year…
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Zion Williamson's highly-anticipated debut for the New Orleans Pelicans, in a nationally-televised prime-time game against the San Antonio Spurs on January 22, is expected to give the National Basketball…
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The National Basketball Association has announced a multi-year extension of its live content and highlights partnership with Twitter and Turner Sports
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The National Basketball Association is looking to continue to experiment with its innovative 5G smartphone broadcast initiative at next year's NBA All Star Game at the United Center in Chicago
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The Golden State Warriors' dramatic slump in form this season has been compounded by the National Basketball Association taking two of the team's games off national television this month
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The NBA has agreed a deal to stream live and on-demand games on Indian sports news and fantasy gaming tips application FanCode during the 2019-20 season
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The NBA basketball league has agreed a rights deal in South Africa with free-to-air broadcaster e.tv. The multi-year agreement names e
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The NBA basketball league has extended partnerships with digital services and telecommunications providers Globe Telecom, Smart Communications and PLDT to distribute its NBA League Pass subscription service…
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Chinese conglomerate Tencent will not show Houston Rockets games for the foreseeable future amid the ongoing fallout caused by a tweet posted by the basketball team’s general manager Daryl Morey earlier t…
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UK pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports has announced details of a new weekly basketball show to support its coverage of the NBA during the 2019-20 season
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Brazilian media group Bandeirantes, which operates free-to-air and pay-television channels, has acquired rights for the NBA basketball league
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Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten has launched a new streaming service to showcase its coverage of the NBA basketball league in the country
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NBA commissioner Adam Silver has responded to the recent furore over Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey's tweets on the Hong Kong democracy protests, saying the league would back the right to…
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Filipino pay-television broadcaster Solar Entertainment Corporation withdrew from talks to renew its long-held rights to the National Basketball Association last week after deciding the property had become too expensive, SportBusiness Media understands.
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Competition between pay-television broadcaster Sky Italia and OTT platform DAZN for the rights to the American National Basketball Association ensured the former paid a substantial uplift for exclusive rights in the country from 2019-20 to 2022-23.
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OTT streaming service DAZN has unseated Major League Baseball as the producer of the world’s top revenue-generating sports app, according to a new report.