NBA agrees to terms on $76 billion media rights deal

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Hopefully this means the Blazers can have some news about the games for this upcoming season being broadcast or streamed.
 
julius said:
Hopefully this means the Blazers can have some news about the games for this upcoming season being broadcast or streamed.
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I don't see why this would, maybe eventually the Blazers will get 5-10 national games since every team will probably have more national games with 3 TV partners. But this new NBA TV deal takes effect in 2025-26, not next season.
 
TNT may try to take legal action against the NBA, but I don't think they'll win. The NBA will use the fact that TNT isn't available on nearly as many streaming options as it used to be. For example Fubo TV dropped TNT and all the other Warner channels a few months ago. The NBA will say that TNT can't provide the amount of viewers that it used to, and Amazon Prime can.
 
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That's awesome. Games on almost every day of the week.
What I'm curious to know is if the Blazers are on Amazon for example, can Blazer Broadcasting also do the game here locally on our local affiliate? With the current TV deal, there isn't a local broadcast if the Blazers are on TNT or ABC. But there is if they are on ESPN.
 
tlongII said:
Why no games on Sunday? Is the NBA letting religion seep into their scheduling?
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It's just national games, and I imagine it's to not go up against the NFL. I wonder if we see a pivot in February.
 
tlongII said:
Why no games on Sunday? Is the NBA letting religion seep into their scheduling?
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RR7 said:
It's just national games, and I imagine it's to not go up against the NFL. I wonder if we see a pivot in February.
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Definitely because of the NFL. The NFL games dominate TV viewership/ratings. Nothing else even comes close.
In 2023, NFL games got 92 of the top 100 programs on TV for viewership #'s. College football got 3... so football in general got 95 of the top 100.
 
I'm guessing league pass blackout rules will still apply for national TV games?

If so, there is no point to LP anymore is there?
 
illmatic99 said:
I'm guessing league pass blackout rules will still apply for national TV games?

If so, there is no point to LP anymore is there?
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Still be able to see every other game, beyond what is on national TV, no? And if you're out of market, still get the Blazers
 
RR7 said:
Still be able to see every other game, beyond what is on national TV, no? And if you're out of market, still get the Blazers
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The press release seems to say LP will be under the Amazon umbrella. Gonna wait to see how this plays out, but if we start showing up on these national games more, LP is pointless, forcing us to subscribe to multiple platforms.

They had a chance to use streaming to widen the audience, instead it seems like they're just wringing every penny out of these deals. Should seen it coming.
 
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You’ll still need Root Sports channel to view the Blazers games.
 
illmatic99 said:
The press release seems to say LP will be under the Amazon umbrella. Gonna wait to see how this plays out, but if we start showing up on these national games more, LP is pointless, forcing us to subscribe to multiple platforms.

They had a chance to use streaming to widen the audience, instead it seems like they're just wringing every penny out of these deals. Should seen it coming.
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SlyPokerDog said:
The NBA has agreed to terms on its new media deal, an 11-year agreement worth $76 billion that assures player salaries will continue rising for the foreseeable future and one that will surely change how some viewers access the game for years to come.

A person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press that the networks have the terms sheets, with the next step being for the league's board of governors to approve the contracts.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity Wednesday because they weren't at liberty to discuss such impending matters.

The deal, which sets NBA records for both its length and total value, goes into effect for the 2025-26 season. Games will continue being aired on ESPN and ABC, and now some will be going to NBC and Amazon Prime. TNT Sports, which has been part of the league's broadcasting family since the 1980s, could be on its way out but has five days to match one of the deals.

The five-day clock would begin once the league sends the finished contracts to TNT.

The Athletic was the first to report on the contracts.

ESPN and ABC will continue to have the league's top package, which includes the NBA Finals and one of the conference finals series. ABC has aired the NBA Finals since 2003. ABC will continue to air games on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons when the NFL's regular season ends.

ESPN's main nights will continue to be Wednesday with some Friday and Sunday games.

The return of NBC, which carried NBA games from 1990 through 2002, gives the league two broadcast network partners for the first time.

NBC will showcase games on Sunday night once the NFL season has ended. It will air games on Tuesdays throughout the regular season. A Monday night package of games will be exclusively streamed on Peacock.

Prime Video will have games on Thursday night after it is done carrying NFL games. Its other nights will be Friday and Saturday.

NBC and Prime Video will alternate who carries the other conference finals series.

In the short term, the deal almost certainly means the league's salary cap will rise 10% annually -- the maximum allowed by the terms of the most recent collective bargaining agreement between the NBA and its players. That means players such as Oklahoma City's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Dallas' Luka Doncic could be making around $80 million in the 2030-31 season and raises at least some possibility that top players might be earning somewhere near $100 million per season by the mid-2030s.

It also clears the way for the next major item on the NBA's to-do list: expansion.

Commissioner Adam Silver was very clear on the order of his top agenda items in recent seasons, those being preserving labor peace (which was achieved with the new CBA), getting a new media deal (now essentially completed), and then and only then turning the league's attention toward adding new franchises. Las Vegas and Seattle are typically among the cities most prominently mentioned as top expansion candidates, with others such as Montreal, Vancouver and Kansas City expected to have groups with interest as well.

As the broadcast rights packages have grown in total value over the past 25 years, so, too, have salaries because of how much that revenue stream ends up fueling the salary cap.

When NBC and Turner agreed to a $2.6 billion, four-year deal that started with the 1998-99 season, the salary cap was $30 million per team and the average salary was around $2.5 million. The average salary this season exceeded $10 million per player -- and it's only going to keep rising from here.

When that NBC-Turner deal that started a quarter-century ago expired, the next deal -- covering six seasons -- cost ABC, ESPN and Turner about $4.6 billion. The next was a seven-year deal, costing those networks $7.4 billion.

The current deal, the one that will expire next season, smashed those records at nine years and nearly $24 billion.

And now, that seems like pocket change.

From the deal that started in 1998-99 to the one now struck to begin in 2025, the total value has climbed by about 2,800%. Factoring for inflation between then and now, the value goes up about 1,400%.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/40535771/reports-nba-agrees-terms-76-billion-media-rights-deal
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blazerkor said:
I don't want all of our tradeable vets to increase their value or think most of them can. I want them traded now for the highest value out there. I guarantee there are teams that want Jerami and I guarantee there are teams that want Ant. I think both will bring back at least a future FRP and if they're only bringing back one future FRP a piece they should also be bringing back other tradeable contracts.
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hmmm 76billion spread out to 350 million people would be what, 20 bucks a person?
@wizenheimer help me out here numbers guru.
If all major sports donated the total revenue for a year to the public, what would that net a person?
I don't know the tv contract or baseball contract values. Do you?
Curious if all of these multimillionaires(players and ceos) just gave up one year of salary, how much would the average person get?
 
Chris Craig said:
For this coming season. After that the deal is over and the Blazers will go elsewhere.
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hopefully the dont go anywhere, keep it on a local channel and they develop their own live-recordable stream of thier own in various packages. A single game, 10 game, half season, full season, etc.
 
SharpeScooterShooter said:
hmmm 76billion spread out to 350 million people would be what, 20 bucks a person?
@wizenheimer help me out here numbers guru.
If all major sports donated the total revenue for a year to the public, what would that net a person?
I don't know the tv contract or baseball contract values. Do you?
Curious if all of these multimillionaires(players and ceos) just gave up one year of salary, how much would the average person get?
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About 220 per person. But the 76 isn't per season, it's spread out over a period of 11 years, I believe. So yeah, about 20 bucks a person. Even if the other 3 major sports had the same deal, it's less than $100 bucks a person.
 
illmatic99 said:
The press release seems to say LP will be under the Amazon umbrella. Gonna wait to see how this plays out, but if we start showing up on these national games more, LP is pointless, forcing us to subscribe to multiple platforms.

They had a chance to use streaming to widen the audience, instead it seems like they're just wringing every penny out of these deals. Should seen it coming.
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If you don’t have league pass…..you’ll only be able to watch ONE game a night though.
 
Gee......I wonder who is going to foot that bill?

Free viewing of your home team right around the corner.....
 
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