The NBA's media rights are stirring significant interest among broadcasters, with NBCUniversal planning a hefty $2.5 billion bid and Amazon aiming for the league's first national streaming deal. ESPN is already committed to paying $2.6 billion annually for fewer NBA games, a move that could erase its profits due to additional costs from the expanded college football playoff. If NBC secures the NBA rights, it could result in reduced content budgets for its network and Peacock service, while TNT might struggle to maintain its $3 per-subscriber monthly fee without the NBA. Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) faces challenges with declining cable TV subscribers, potentially impacting its new Sports JV and its ability to compete for NBA rights.
NBC plans about $2.5 bln offer for NBA broadcast rights, WSJ reports https://t.co/iqNFIchafU.
I can’t believe NBC is going to pay as much or more than they pay for the NFL per year and they’re not even going to get the Finals or possibly even the conference finals? It can’t be that valuable for Peacock. And an NBA regular season game gets about 20-25 percent of a SNF game https://t.co/n1dHFi07Mk
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Wow @espn is paying $2.6 billion a year for fewer NBA games per @WSJ. If true, ESPN’s profit is gone between keeping the NBA & the expanded college football playoff costs. This NBA cost would mean ESPN almost 100% has to sublicense CFB playoff games too. https://t.co/X19Rhwkx9m
The Inside the NBA crew better go somewhere else wholesale if TNT loses NBA.
If NBC does get NBA from TNT for its network and Peacock, expect content budgets to take a big haircut. Meanwhile, without NBA, TNT will be under pressure to maintain the $3 per-sub monthly fee network gets. W/@asharma & @thesimonetti https://t.co/wzITyMb7qY
NBC can underwrite an NBA deal with broadcast fees and streaming subscriptions WBD only has fast declining cable TV, which will have much fewer subs a decade from now when the new NBA deal ends This would also effectively kill that new Sports JV as WBD would bring very little https://t.co/beAogAAvVI
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