{"id":483896,"date":"2024-06-05T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=483896"},"modified":"2024-06-05T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T17:20:58","slug":"nba-close-to-76-billion-deal-with-nbc-disney-amazon-and-espn","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nba-close-to-76-billion-deal-with-nbc-disney-amazon-and-espn\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA close to $76 billion deal with NBC, Disney, Amazon and ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball Association is nearing finalization of substantial media rights deals with Comcast-owned NBC, Disney&#8217;s ESPN, and Amazon.com, projected to generate approximately $76 billion in media revenue over 11 years, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>These agreements underscore the high value media companies place on securing rights to broadcast professional basketball games, as sports content consistently draws a dedicated and sizable audience amidst the decline in traditional TV viewership due to cord-cutting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NBC&#8217;s Deal<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NBC is expected to pay an average of $2.5 billion per year.<\/li>\n<li>The deal includes airing around 100 games per season.<\/li>\n<li>About half of these games will be exclusive to Comcast&#8217;s Peacock streaming service.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Amazon&#8217;s Package<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amazon&#8217;s agreement is valued at $1.8 billion annually.<\/li>\n<li>The package will include regular-season games, playoff games, and a portion of the conference finals, which will be rotated among the media partners.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Disney&#8217;s Agreement<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disney will pay an average of $2.6 billion per year, a significant increase from the $1.5 billion it currently pays.<\/li>\n<li>ESPN will continue to air the NBA Finals, although the total number of games Disney broadcasts will decrease under the new arrangement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The NBA is nearing an 11-year, $76 billion media revenue deal with ESPN, NBC and Amazon, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WSJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@WSJ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN: $2.6B\/year<br \/>\nNBC: $2.5B\/year<br \/>\nAmazon: $1.8B\/year<\/p>\n<p>That means TNT is out after next season. \ud83d\ude13 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JKrh8IBui6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JKrh8IBui6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YahooSports\/status\/1798359795801702787?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nNotably absent from these new deals is Warner Bros Discovery, whose Turner Sports network has been a staple broadcaster of NBA games for approximately 40 years. Analysts attribute Warner Bros Discovery&#8217;s exclusion to its substantial debt load, which may have limited its ability to compete financially for the NBA&#8217;s broadcasting rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball Association is nearing finalization of substantial media rights deals with Comcast-owned NBC, Disney&#8217;s ESPN, and Amazon.com, projected to generate approximately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":483897,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[1067],"acf":{"announce":"The franchise is set to sell broadcasting rights in the next 11 seasons for record-breaking amount ","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483899,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/483896\/revisions\/483899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483896"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=483896"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=483896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}