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NBA TV
NBA TV is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned and operated by the National Basketball Association (NBA). Dedicated to basketball, the network features exhibition, regular season and playoff game broadcasts from the NBA and related professional basketball leagues, as well as NBA-related content including analysis programs, specials and documentaries. The network is headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey. The network also serves as the national broadcaster of the NBA G League and WNBA games. NBA TV is the oldest subscription network in North America to be owned or controlled by a professional sports league, having launched on November 2, 1999.
As of November 2023[update], NBA TV is available to approximately 37.0 million television households in the United States, down from its 2013 peak of 61.0 million households.
The network launched on November 2, 1999 as nba.com TV; the channel, which was renamed to the second and current name on 11 February 2003, originally operated from studio facilities housed at NBA Entertainment in Secaucus, New Jersey. The network signed a multi-year carriage agreement with three of the U.S.'s five largest cable providers, Cox Communications, Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, on June 28, 2003; this expanded the network's reach to 45 million pay television households in the U.S., in addition to distribution in 30 countries worldwide. After Time Warner shut down the sports news network CNN/SI in 2002, many cable providers replaced that network with NBA TV.
The network mainly launched with two purposes; to serve as a barker channel for the league's out-of-market sports package NBA League Pass, along with featuring statistical and scoring information which was more easily accessible in the pre-broadband age, and it featured mainly archival content from the NBA Entertainment archives in its upper pane to fill programming time. As time went on, the network added more programming, including international basketball leagues and programming from FIBA usually unseen in the American market. The programming mix and channel format changed around the same time of the CNN/SI shutdown.
On October 8, 2007, it was reported that the National Basketball Association would transfer the channel's operations to Time Warner's Turner Sports division (operated by the company's Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary).
Turner took over the channel's operations on October 28, 2008, and began using the same announcers and analysts used on TNT's NBA telecasts. Analysis and news programming also received an upgrade, with production of the programs being relocated to Studio B at Turner Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, located adjacent to Studio J, where TNT's post-game program Inside the NBA is broadcast. The repeats of NBA games on TBS and TNT began in 2009, as NBA Classics.
In 2024, the NBA signed a new media rights deal with ABC/ESPN, NBC and Amazon Prime Video beginning in the 2025–26 season, ending TNT's broadcasting relationship with the league. For several months, the future of the channel remained uncertain with no entity designated to operate the channel. On November 18, TNT parent company Warner Bros. Discovery announced that they reached a settlement with the NBA over a lawsuit it had filed over Prime Video's contract, which includes certain international and highlights rights for WBD divisions, and a five-year renewal with TNT Sports (formerly Turner Sports) to operate NBA TV and the NBA's digital properties.
On June 27, 2025, it was instead announced that TNT Sports would withdraw from its management agreement with NBA TV and NBA Digital, and its operations would be taken in-house by the league from its headquarters in New Jersey effective October 1. TNT Sports CEO Luis Silberwasser stated that the division was "unable to agree on a path forward that recognized the value of our expertise, quality content and operational excellence that our fans and partners have come to expect from TNT Sports." A sticking point in negotiations was the lower number of games that NBA TV would be able to air due to the new contracts made by NBC and Prime Video, additionally the network will no longer air any playoff games (as that part of the deal was in TNT’s expired package).
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NBA TV
NBA TV is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned and operated by the National Basketball Association (NBA). Dedicated to basketball, the network features exhibition, regular season and playoff game broadcasts from the NBA and related professional basketball leagues, as well as NBA-related content including analysis programs, specials and documentaries. The network is headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey. The network also serves as the national broadcaster of the NBA G League and WNBA games. NBA TV is the oldest subscription network in North America to be owned or controlled by a professional sports league, having launched on November 2, 1999.
As of November 2023[update], NBA TV is available to approximately 37.0 million television households in the United States, down from its 2013 peak of 61.0 million households.
The network launched on November 2, 1999 as nba.com TV; the channel, which was renamed to the second and current name on 11 February 2003, originally operated from studio facilities housed at NBA Entertainment in Secaucus, New Jersey. The network signed a multi-year carriage agreement with three of the U.S.'s five largest cable providers, Cox Communications, Cablevision and Time Warner Cable, on June 28, 2003; this expanded the network's reach to 45 million pay television households in the U.S., in addition to distribution in 30 countries worldwide. After Time Warner shut down the sports news network CNN/SI in 2002, many cable providers replaced that network with NBA TV.
The network mainly launched with two purposes; to serve as a barker channel for the league's out-of-market sports package NBA League Pass, along with featuring statistical and scoring information which was more easily accessible in the pre-broadband age, and it featured mainly archival content from the NBA Entertainment archives in its upper pane to fill programming time. As time went on, the network added more programming, including international basketball leagues and programming from FIBA usually unseen in the American market. The programming mix and channel format changed around the same time of the CNN/SI shutdown.
On October 8, 2007, it was reported that the National Basketball Association would transfer the channel's operations to Time Warner's Turner Sports division (operated by the company's Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary).
Turner took over the channel's operations on October 28, 2008, and began using the same announcers and analysts used on TNT's NBA telecasts. Analysis and news programming also received an upgrade, with production of the programs being relocated to Studio B at Turner Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, located adjacent to Studio J, where TNT's post-game program Inside the NBA is broadcast. The repeats of NBA games on TBS and TNT began in 2009, as NBA Classics.
In 2024, the NBA signed a new media rights deal with ABC/ESPN, NBC and Amazon Prime Video beginning in the 2025–26 season, ending TNT's broadcasting relationship with the league. For several months, the future of the channel remained uncertain with no entity designated to operate the channel. On November 18, TNT parent company Warner Bros. Discovery announced that they reached a settlement with the NBA over a lawsuit it had filed over Prime Video's contract, which includes certain international and highlights rights for WBD divisions, and a five-year renewal with TNT Sports (formerly Turner Sports) to operate NBA TV and the NBA's digital properties.
On June 27, 2025, it was instead announced that TNT Sports would withdraw from its management agreement with NBA TV and NBA Digital, and its operations would be taken in-house by the league from its headquarters in New Jersey effective October 1. TNT Sports CEO Luis Silberwasser stated that the division was "unable to agree on a path forward that recognized the value of our expertise, quality content and operational excellence that our fans and partners have come to expect from TNT Sports." A sticking point in negotiations was the lower number of games that NBA TV would be able to air due to the new contracts made by NBC and Prime Video, additionally the network will no longer air any playoff games (as that part of the deal was in TNT’s expired package).