Basketball
DAZN adds German rights to Basketball Champions League coverage
Sports streaming service DAZN has followed up its Spanish rights deal for the Basketball Champions League with an extended agreement for coverage of the European club competition in Germany, Austria and…
NBL strikes ‘revolutionary’ Twitch tie-up
Australia’s National Basketball League (NBL) has claimed a first for the country with a global streaming agreement with social video platform Twitch.
DAZN adds Basketball Champions League to Spanish line-up
Sports streaming service DAZN has enhanced its basketball coverage in Spain by agreeing a three-season deal for rights to European club competition the Basketball Champions League
Basketball Australia readies streaming platform for WNBL
Basketball Australia has said the Women’s National Basketball League will receive landmark coverage in 2019-20 as it enters the final season of its current rights deal with pay-television broadcaster F…
Rakuten launches dedicated NBA streaming service in Japan
Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten has launched a new streaming service to showcase its coverage of the NBA basketball league in the country
Silver defends NBA response to tweet furore, CCTV pulls exhibition games
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…
NBA talks go to wire in the Philippines after Solar loses appetite
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.
Fiba hails World Cup reach as final breaks record in Spain
The International Basketball Federation (Fiba) has revealed that its recent World Cup in China delivered a total cumulative average television audience increase of over 80 per cent compared to the 2014…
DAZN Brazil commits to EuroLeague until 2023
Direct-to-consumer sports streaming service DAZN has extended an agreement in Brazil for rights to the top-tier EuroLeague basketball competition until the end of the 2022-23 season
NBA rights competition drives Sky Italia extension premium
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.
Cignal and Sky target NBA rights in Philippines
Filipino pay-television operators Cignal and Sky have entered a joint offer for rights to the NBA following the closure of the North American basketball league’s long-term home in the country.
NBA extends virtual reality deal with NextVR
The NBA Digital arm of North American basketball league the NBA has extended and expanded its agreement with virtual reality company NextVR
LaLiga Sports TV hits 300,000 registered users
LaLiga Sports TV, the multi-sports OTT platform launched by Spanish football’s LaLiga, has reached 300,000 registered users, according to LaLiga president Javier Tebas who was speaking at the World Football S…
NBA seals pan-Baltic deal with All Media Baltics
The National Basketball Association has agreed a new deal with pay-television broadcaster All Media Baltics across the Baltic region (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), having previously sold rights on a…
Philippines’ Basketball TV, NBA Premium TV to cease operations
Philippines-based pay-television broadcasters Basketball TV and NBA Premium TV will cease broadcasting operations from October 1, it has been announced today (Wednesday)
DAZN signs three-year media rights deal with Brazil’s NBB
Subscription sports streaming service DAZN has agreed a three-season deal with the Brazilian Basketball League (LNB) to become the main rights partner of its top-tier club competition, the NBB
Deutsche Telekom partners with Media Broadcast for BBL coverage
German telco Deutsche Telekom has agreed a four-year deal with broadcasting and media services provider Media Broadcast to aid its delivery of games from top-tier club competition the Basketball Bundesliga…
Australia’s NBL to stream games in US via Facebook Watch
New streaming agreement seeks to take advantage of two potential NBA Draft lottery picks playing in the league this season