TNT Issues Statement Objecting NBA's Decision to Reject Media Rights Offer The NBA said earlier Wednesday that the company that owns TNT failed to match other offers. TNT says the NBA has "grossly misinterpreted" its contract. Josh Wilson | Jul 24, 2024 NBA on TNT logo / Ron Chenoy-USA...
In the wake of TNT’s plans to take legal action against the NBA after the leagueannouncedits new 11-year media rights deal,Inside The NBAanalyst Charles Barkley appears to be on the other side of the fight. Warner Bros. Discovery, who owns TNT,issued a statementon Friday in which the ...
Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of TNT Sports, sued the NBA in New York state court in August after the league did not accept the company's matching offer for one of the packages in its new 11-year media rights deal, which will begin with the 2025-26 season. Even though ...
TNT parent Warner Bros. Discovery told the NBA it intends to match Amazon’s $1.8 billion bid to carry games, setting the stage for a possible legal dispute.
With the start of the 2023-24 NBA season just days away, it’s prime time for the negotiations of the league’s next media rights deals, which will go into effect a year from now. And while Charles Barkley has said that the league’s current partners ESPN and TNT (Barkley’s employer...
events, the emergence of players like ION and The CW, and the shifts of many teams’ local rights to broadcast stations. And it’s now becoming a key part of the discussions about if Warner Bros. Discovery’s TNT Sports will be able to keep NBA rights or not in the next wave of ...
The Big East has reached a six-year media rights deal with incumbent Fox Sports and newcomers NBC Sports and TNT Sports, it was announced Thursday. While the new deal does not go fully into effect until the 2025-26 season, the NBC streaming service Peacock will begin its tenure this comin...
The NBA’s Board of Governors approved the league’s11-year media rights dealswith Disney, NBC and Amazon Prime Video at its meeting in Las Vegas last Tuesday. WBD received all three contracts Wednesday, which started the five-day clock for whether it wanted to matc...
It will be a sad, sad day for NBA fans everywhere once it is confirmed that‘Inside the NBA’will not return. Despite their initial failure in maintaining the media rights from the NBA, TNT continues to fight on through legal means and...
In addition, sports commentator Bill Simmons has said that the deal is structured so that Amazon will pay the NBA three years of rights payments up front to be held in escrow, or a roughly $5.4 billion check. It’s a move that may have been intended to block WBD’s match. A...