ESPN has announced a major new addition to its NBA coverage.
On Wednesday, the NBA announced that it had reached 11-year broadcast rights agreements with The Walt Disney Company/ESPN, NBC and Amazon Prime Video.
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The agreements in question will come into force from the 2025-2026 season.
In total, the NBA will raise an astonishing $77 billion from the combined deals, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The most valuable business is ESPN, which alone is worth $2.6 billion annually.
ESPN published a detailed discrimination of its new deal, revealing that along with numerous other additions to the existing package, the network will also air a new studio show.
This program will consist of “fast-paced game night coverage,” a description eerily similar to that of NFL Network’s beloved RedZone.
What this means for the NBA’s current “whip-around” program, CrunchTime, is unclear.
Broadcast since 2015, the free live show is hosted by Jared Greenberg and shown exclusively on the NBA app.
As for ESPN’s new show, the reveal was met with great enthusiasm by X fans.
“Gamechanger,” said one fan in response.
“I’m going to watch it every night. Love,” commented a second.
“Low-key NBA cuisine,” added a third.
While another responded: “Yes we need it!”
ESPN’s broadcast deal will see them split 80 regular season games between it and ABC.
This will include all five league games on Christmas Day as well as the final day of the regular season.
ESPN and ABC will also have the rights to approximately 18 games from the first and second rounds of the Playoffs, as well as one of the Conference Finals.
The Finals, which first arrived on ESPN in 2003, will remain with the broadcaster.
ESPN will also broadcast the NBA Draft, Draft Lottery and All-Star Celebrity Game.
The deal also includes rights to at least 25 WNBA regular season games along with five finals series during the 11-year deal.
Disney also has the rights to two first-round playoff series, along with eight semi-finals and five finals – with Disney, NBC and Amazon set to alternate as broadcasters.
The rights to All-Star Weekend, Draft and Draft Lottery were also acquired by Disney.
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