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Shortly after announcing that it rejected TNT’s offer to match Amazon’s media rights proposal for the 11-year TV deal, expected to begin in 2025-26, the NBA officially announced that it had agreed to the media rights deal with Disney (ESPN/ABC), NBCUniversal (NBC/Peacock) and Amazon (Amazon Prime Video) that will cost $77 billion through the 2035-36 season.
“Our new global media agreements with Disney, NBCUniversal and Amazon will maximize the reach and accessibility of NBA games for fans in the United States and around the world,” Adam Silver, NBA commissioner, said via release. “These partners will distribute our content across a wide range of platforms and help transform the fan experience over the next decade.”
The current TV deal–spanning nine years for $24 billion–began at the start of 2016-17 with only ABC/ESPN and TNT as its broadcasting partners. With streaming services becoming more popular than cable television, the league has decided to expand its wings, but what will that entail for each network?
Let’s examine below!
In essence, this is similar to the last TV deal with Disney. There’s a slight decrease in regular season games broadcasted (85 to 80) and playoff games (30 to 18) in the first two rounds, but it still holds primetime coverage for the NBA Finals, Christmas Day Games and a few other notable events, such as the NBA Draft and NBA Draft Lottery.
Woah! 100 games on NBC/Peacock! That’s the most any network’s had ever–with TNT getting 64 in their current agreement. It’s fascinating how it will have coverage on Peacock during the NFL season with Monday Night Football and not NBC; If I were them, I would prefer to have the television station capture those views and not the streaming service because more people would be inclined to watch it. But alas, this is a great deal for NBCUniversal in their first year back since 2002.
That’s not a bad shake for Amazon, all things considered. It will also have more games than TNT with this new deal while getting prime coverage for the In-Season Tournament. As I’ve outlined previously, if all things were equal, TNT wouldn’t have the juice to match one of the most popular streaming services nationwide. For being the third partner, you could do a whole lot worse, all things considered.
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