NBA TV is an American sports-oriented

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owned by the

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(NBA) and operated by

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through its sports unit. Dedicated to

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, 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

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. The network is headquartered in

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. The network also serves as the national broadcaster of the

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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 January 2016, NBA TV is available to approximately 53.8 million pay television households in America. The highest measured audience was a Golden State Warriors vs San Antonio Spurs regular season game on April 10, 2016 with an average 2.6 million viewers.

History

The network launched on November 2, 1999 as nba.com TV; the channel, which was renamed NBA TV on February 11, 2003, originally operated from studio facilities housed at NBA Entertainment in

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. The network signed a multi-year carriage agreement with three of the U.S.'s five largest cable providers,

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and

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, 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

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shut down the sports news network

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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

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NBA League Pass NBA League Pass is the National Basketball Association's direct-to-consumer subscription-based product that gives basketball fans access to NBA games, live and on-demand, for the entire NBA season. League Pass is available to viewers in the Un ...

, along with featuring statistical and scoring information which was more easily accessible in the pre-

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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

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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

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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

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, located adjacent to Studio J, where TNT's post-game program ''

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'' is broadcast. The repeats of NBA games on TBS and

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began in 2009, as ''NBA Classics''.

Carriage agreements

On April 16, 2009,

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announced that it had reached a carriage agreement with the NBA to continue carrying NBA TV, moving it (and out-of-market sports package

) from the satellite provider's Sports Pack add-on tier to its lower-priced Choice Xtra base package on October 1, 2009. DirecTV believed the move will make the channel available to an additional eight million subscribers. On June 4, 2009,

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announced that it had reached an agreement with the NBA to move the channel from the cable provider's Sports Entertainment Package to its basic level Digital Classic package, by the start of the 2009–10 NBA season. Like DirecTV, Comcast estimated that an additional eight million customers would effectively gain access to the channel. Verizon FiOS added the channel and

to its systems on September 23, 2009.NBA digital signs deal with FiOS for NBA TV and NBA League Pass
''TVWeek.com'' September 23, 2009 The network also signed new multi-year agreements with

and

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on October 22, 2009, as well as a renewal agreement with

earlier in the year. With all of the above carriage deals, the NBA estimates that it would increase NBA TV's overall subscriber reach to 45 million pay television homes. On October 29, 2010,

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reached a carriage deal to carry the channel's standard and high definition feeds. NBA TV is not available to legacy

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customers using outdated billing plans, which carried the network as NBA.com TV prior to 2004, due to unknown carriage conflicts; NBA League Pass was likewise unavailable on Charter until a broader rollout for the 2020–21 season began (on May 18, 2016, Charter acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks for $78.7 billion, which both carried the network). NBA TV has been available to Charter households where available since February 2017, if a customer switches to the new 'Spectrum' billing plan which united Charter, Time Warner Cable and

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under the

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branding (this is all likely unrelated to Charter's inherited

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of the

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' home arena, the Spectrum Center).

Programming

NBA TV offers news programs devoted to basketball daily, in addition to programs showcasing the lives of individual basketball players, documentaries focusing on a particular NBA team during the season and archived broadcasts of well-known games. NBA TV carries at least 90 regular season games per season, which typically air four days a week during the NBA season (mainly on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, although occasional Wednesday, Friday and Sunday games may air in the event that

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does not hold rights to coverage on those nights), as well as some first-round playoff games. It also carries its own coverage of the NBA Draft. Live games on NBA TV are subject to local blackout restrictions, since NBA TV (despite being owned by the league) does not hold the exclusive broadcast rights to any of its games. Games carried by NBA TV are also carried by each team's local rights holder, either a regional sports network or a broadcast television station. The network also shows international games, typically on Saturday evenings, with special emphasis on the Euroleague and the

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team from

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. In April 2005, NBA TV televised the

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finals for the first time. The channel's flagship program is ''

NBA Gametime Live ''NBA Gametime'' is the flagship program of NBA TV. The show began airing on October 30, 2008. Background The show has a studio host and various studio analysts. It airs live and provides the viewer live look-ins at NBA games, during which it sh ...

'', a program focusing on news headlines within the NBA and related leagues (including the WNBA and G League), highlights and look-ins at games currently in progress presented by a host and studio analysts. The show airs live six days a week, deferring any

game nights outside the playoffs to repeating that evening's edition of ''

''. An edited 90-minute version of the broadcast is repeated during the overnight and early morning hours. On October 11, 2017, it was announced that the ''Players Only'' franchise, which made its debut last season on

, will show live games on NBA TV, starting October 24, 2017 and every Tuesday after that, for the first half of the 2017–18 season before transitioning to TNT for the remainder of the regular season starting January 23, 2018. After the cancellation of ''Players Only'' in 2019, Tuesday (first half) and Monday (second half) night games on NBA TV were rebranded as ''NBA TV Center Court'', with Brian Anderson handling the Tuesday night games and

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the Monday night games. They are joined alongside

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and Dennis Scott. With TNT moving its marquee games to Tuesdays in 2021 during the

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(thus avoiding competition with ''

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''), ''NBA TV Center Court'' was moved to Monday nights, though it would continue to air select broadcasts on Tuesdays when TNT has other programming commitments. Beginning 2021, NBA TV began to broadcast a package of men's and women's

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(SWAC)

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games in February as an observance of

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. This marked NBA TV's first broadcasts of college basketball games.

List of programs broadcast by NBA TV

* ''10 Before Tip'' * ''3DTV'' * ''Beyond The Paint'' * ''Courtside Cinema'' * ''Game Of The Day'' * ''

Hardwood Classics ''Hardwood Classics'' is a television series that airs on NBA TV and features many of the greatest classic games recorded on videotape or film in National Basketball Association history. The show is produced by NBA Entertainment. During its earli ...

'' * ''High Tops: Plays of the Month'' * ''

'' (encore telecasts within 12 hours of original airing on

) * ''

NBA Action ''NBA Action'' is a weekly show with news and highlights of the NBA. The show premiered in 1990 on ESPN. It airs on NBA TV with new episodes at 6:30 ET/5:30 CT every Thursday night during the season. Features (in chronological order) * Western ...

'' * ''NBA CrunchTime'' – focuses on live NBA games till the buzzer, includes CrunchTime Alert, similar to NBA Scores * ''

'' * ''NBA Gametime Live Specials'' (e.g. mock draft, free agent updates, season previews, trade deadline updates, playoff previews) * ''

NBA Inside Stuff ''NBA Inside Stuff'' is a television program previously aired on NBC from 1990 to 2002, then on ABC and NBA TV, featuring behind the scenes activities of NBA players. The program also includes features on fitness and fundamentals of basketball. ...

'' * ''NBA TV Marquee Matchup'' * ''NBA TV Originals'' * ''Open Court'' * ''Playoff Playback'' * ''

Shaqtin' a Fool ''Shaqtin' a Fool'' is a weekly segment from the television show ''Inside the NBA'', the postgame show of '' NBA on TNT'' following the conclusion of National Basketball Association (NBA) games airing on cable TV channel TNT. The title is a play ...

'' * ''

The Starters ''The Starters'' (previously known as ''The Basketball Jones'') was a podcast, blog, and television program that analyzed, and often satirized, the National Basketball Association (NBA). The show was written and hosted by Canadians Tas Melas and ...

'' (2013-2019)

High definition

NBA TV HD is a

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high-definition simulcast feed of NBA TV that is available on most providers. All studio programs and original programs are shot in HD, and all live games and recent game rebroadcasts are televised in HD.

Personalities

The studio host and analysts vary on each night's broadcast of ''NBA Gametime''.

Studio hosts and play-by-play

* Andre Aldridge (2005–present) * Brian Anderson (2014–present) *

Vince Cellini Vincent Robert Cellini (; born June 10, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American sports broadcaster for radio and television, currently working at NBA TV and Turner Sports. Early life and career Cellini was a lifeguard at Grovewood, a city pool ...

(2009–present) *

Scott Cole Scott Cole is an American writer, artist, and graphic designer operating out of Philadelphia. Career Cole expressed an interest in horror from a young age and has cited 80s slasher films as well as works such as ''Night of the Living Dead'', ' ...

(2018–present) *

(2003–present) *

Ian Eagle Ian Eagle ( ; born February 9, 1969) is an American sports announcer. He calls NBA, NFL, and college basketball games on CBS, TNT, and TBS, as well as Brooklyn Nets games on the YES Network and French Open tennis for Tennis Channel. Other ...

(2012–present) *

Kevin Frazier Kevin Timothy Frazier (born May 20, 1964) is an American television host, widely known as co-host of ''Entertainment Tonight'' and the founder and owner of the urban entertainment website HipHollywood.com. Career Frazier was the first to host both ...

(2021–present) * Michael Grady (2021–present) * Jared Greenberg (2011–present) *

Bob Fitzgerald Robert James Fitzgerald (born 1966) is an American sports broadcaster who is currently the TV play-by-play announcer for the NBA's Golden State Warriors on NBC Sports Bay Area and was a co-host of the radio talk show ''Fitz and Brooks'' on KNB ...

(2020–present) * Ernie Johnson (2008–present) *

Rick Kamla Rick Kamla (born July 19, 1969) is a television personality for NBA TV and CBS Sports. He was also the former midday co-host (10 a.m.-2 p.m.) with John Michaels on all-sports radio station 92.9 The Game in Atlanta. Kamla has been a studio comment ...

(2002–present) *

Kristen Ledlow Kristen Melissa Ledlow (born January 18, 1988) is an American sports anchor. She currently works for NBA TV as the host of '' NBA Inside Stuff''. She currently is a courtside reporter for the NBA on TNT. She has also served as a sports anchor for ...

(2016–present) *

Allie LaForce Alexandra Leigh LaForce (born December 11, 1988) is an American journalist, model, and beauty pageant titleholder. She is a reporter for Turner Sports, covering the '' NBA on TNT''. She was previously the lead reporter for SEC college football g ...

(2018–present) *

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(2020–present) *

Joel Meyers Joel Meyers is an American sportscaster who is the play-by-play announcer of the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also is the lead host of "Above the Rim", which airs weekdays from 10am-1pm ET on SiriusXM N ...

(2020–present) * Chris Miles (2018–present) * Ro Parrish (2016–present) *

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(2018–present) *

Ahmad Rashad Ahmad Rashad (born Robert Earl Moore; November 19, 1949) is an American sportscaster and former professional football player. He was the fourth overall selection of the 1972 NFL Draft, taken by the St. Louis Cardinals. He was known as Bobby Moor ...

(2007–present) *

Stephanie Ready Stephanie Ready (born 1975) is an American broadcaster for NBA on TNT and was formerly a broadcaster for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Charlotte Hornets. Prior to her broadcasting career, she was a basketball coach and gained recogn ...

(2018–present) * Kevin Ray (2019–present) *

Casey Stern Casey Stern (born October 17, 1978, in Massapequa, New York) is an American television personality and radio host who currently works for Turner Sports and Sirius XM Radio. Career Stern departed MLB.com's BaseballChannel.tv, formerly MLB Rad ...

(2015–present) *

Matt Winer Matt Winer is an American television personality who is currently working for Turner Sports. Career Turner Sports signed Winer in 2010 to contribute to coverage of sports across its networks. He became the primary studio host for '' Major Le ...

(2010–present)

Studio analysts and color commentators

David Aldridge David Aldridge (born ) is an American sports journalist who works as a writer for ''The Athletic''. He was previously a reporter for Turner Sports, contributing to their NBA and MLB coverage. Other outlets that Aldridge has written and contrib ...

(2008–present) *

(2010–present) *

Brent Barry Brent Robert Barry (born December 31, 1971), also known by the nickname "Bones", is an American basketball executive, broadcaster and former player. He is the current vice president of basketball operations for the San Antonio Spurs. The shooti ...

(2009–present) *

Vinny Del Negro Vincent Joseph Del Negro (born August 9, 1966) is an American former professional basketball player. He was the head coach of the National Basketball Association's Chicago Bulls from 2008 to 2010, and the Los Angeles Clippers from 2010 to 2013. ...

(2013–present) *

Rick Fox Rick may refer to: People *Rick (given name), a list of people with the given name *Alan Rick (born 1976), Brazilian politician, journalist, pastor and television personality *Johannes Rick (1869–1946), Austrian-born Brazilian priest and mycol ...

(2010–present) *

Mike Fratello Michael Robert Fratello (born February 24, 1947) is an American sports broadcaster and a professional basketball coach. Fratello is currently an analyst for Fox Sports Ohio for the Cavaliers and a part-time color commentator for Fox Sports West f ...

(2008–present) *

Channing Frye Channing Thomas Frye (born May 17, 1983) is an American former professional basketball player. A power forward- center, he played college basketball for the University of Arizona. He was drafted eighth overall by the New York Knicks in the 200 ...

(2020–present) *

Brendan Haywood Brendan Todd Haywood (born November 27, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who was a center in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He won an NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. Following his playing ...

(2016–present) * Grant Hill (2016–present) *

Stu Jackson Stuart Wayne Jackson (born December 11, 1955) is an American basketball executive and former basketball coach. He currently serves as the director of basketball operations for the French professional club Élan Béarnais based in Pau. Jackson ...

(2016–present) *

Bernard King Bernard King (born December 4, 1956) is an American former professional basketball player at the small forward position in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors ...

(2010–present) *

Brevin Knight Brevin Adon Knight (born November 8, 1975) is an American former professional basketball point guard who played with nine teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1997 to 2009. Knight played college basketball at Stanford Universi ...

(2009–present) *

Kyle Korver Kyle Elliot Korver (born March 17, 1981) is an American former professional basketball player who currently serves as the director of player affairs and development for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played col ...

(2021–present) * Kevin McHale (2009–2011; 2016–present) * Sam Mitchell (2008–2010; 2013–2015, 2016–present) *

Shaquille O'Neal Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal ( ; born March 6, 1972), known commonly as "Shaq" ( ), is an American former professional basketball player who is a sports analyst on the television program ''Inside the NBA''. O'Neal is regarded as one of the greates ...

(2011–present) *

Candace Parker Candace Nicole Parker (born April 19, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was selected as the first overall pick in the 2008 WNBA draft by the Los An ...

(2018–present) *

Morris Peterson Morris Russell Peterson Jr. (born August 26, 1977) is an American retired professional basketball player who played eleven seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Michigan State University, where in ...

(2011–present) * Dennis Scott (2009–present) *

Kenny Smith Kenneth Smith (born March 8, 1965), nicknamed "the Jet", is an American sports commentator and former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played in the NBA from 1987 to 1997 as a member of the Sacrame ...

(2008–present) *

Steve Smith Stephen, Steve, Stevie, or Steven Smith may refer to: Academics * Steve Smith (political scientist) (born 1952), British international relations theorist and senior university manager * Stephen Smith (journalist) (born 1956), American journalist, ...

(2008–present) *

Isiah Thomas Isiah Lord Thomas III (born April 30, 1961) is an American former professional basketball player and coach who is an analyst for ''NBA TV''. The 12-time NBA All-Star was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History as well as the 75 Grea ...

(2012–present) *

Dwyane Wade Dwyane Tyrone Wade Jr. (; born January 17, 1982) is an American former professional basketball player. Wade spent the majority of his 16-year career playing for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and won three NBA champi ...

(2019–present) *

Chris Webber Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III (born March 1, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player. Drafted number one overall by the Orlando Magic, though arguably best known and remembered as the star forward for the Sacramento Ki ...

(2008–present)

Contributors

* Joe Borgia * Sekou Smith *

Lang Whitaker Lang Whitaker is an American author and sportswriter who works for the Memphis Grizzlies as the General Manager of Grizz Gaming, and a contributor to Grind City Media, as well as a contributor to GQ Magazine. Career From 2000–2013, Whitaker ...

Other hosts

;''The Starters'' * Leigh Ellis * Trey Kerby * Tas Melas * J. E. Skeets ;''NBA Inside Stuff'' * Grant Hill *

Former hosts and analysts

Marv Albert Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; June 12, 1941) is an American retired sportscaster. Honored for his work as a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, he was commonly referred to as "the voice of basketball". From 1967 to 2004, he ...

(2010) *

Kevin Calabro Kevin Paul Calabro (born June 27, 1956) is an American sportscaster based in Seattle, Washington. The longtime voice of the former Seattle SuperSonics NBA franchise, Calabro has primarily called NBA basketball but has also announced collegiate fo ...

(2012–2014) *

Derrick Coleman Derrick Demetrius Coleman (born June 21, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player. Coleman was born in Mobile, Alabama, but grew up and attended high school in Detroit, Michigan, Detroit, and attended college at Syracuse Univer ...

(2009) *

Antonio Davis Antonio Lee Davis (born October 31, 1968) is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Indiana Pacers, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, and New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also played ...

(2008–2012) *

LaPhonso Ellis LaPhonso Darnell Ellis (born May 5, 1970) is an American retired basketball player. He was selected by the National Basketball Association's Denver Nuggets as the fifth overall pick in the 1992 NBA draft. Early career He was an outstanding high ...

(2009) *

Marc Fein Marc Fein (born Marc Alan Fein; October 21, 1967 in Miami, Florida) is a sports journalist, sports news anchor, and television sports studio host, formerly one of the main studio hosts for the NBA TV show, ''NBA Gametime Live''. He is also the hos ...

(2008–2011) *

Lawrence Frank Lawrence Adam Frank (born August 23, 1970) is an American basketball coach who is currently working as the President of Basketball Operations for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He formerly served as head c ...

(2010) *

Matt Harpring Matthew Joseph Harpring (born May 31, 1976) is an American former professional basketball player who played 11 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was formerly paired with play-by-play broadcaster Craig Bolerjack as the colo ...

(2010) *

Lionel Hollins Lionel Eugene Hollins (born October 19, 1953) is an American professional basketball coach and former player currently serving as an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the Portland ...

(2013) *

Eddie Jordan Edmund Patrick Jordan, OBE (born 30 March 1948), also known as EJ, is an Irish businessman, television personality and former motorsport team owner. Born in Dublin, Jordan worked first at the Bank of Ireland. He won the Irish Kart Championship ...

(2008–2009) *

Tracy McGrady Tracy Lamar McGrady Jr. (born May 24, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player, best known for his career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). McGrady is a seven-time NBA All-Star, seven-time All-NBA selection, two- ...

(2013) * Kyle Montgomery (2009–2013) *

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NBA TV International

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, and Indihome (UseeTV) since 2017 (

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, a Canadian version of the channel, carries some of the same game broadcasts as the flagship U.S. service, ESPN, and TNT instead of the secondary game package found on NBA TV International. In October 2010,

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was launched in the

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. It is a redirect broadcast of NBA TV and airs locally televised and nationally televised games in the United States. It went defunct in October 2019. In February 2012, NBA TV International was made available on NBA.TV as an internet subscription channel outside the United States. On

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in the

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, NBA TV is not available, though beIN Sports NBA airs some of the same games. On July 31, 2020, the Philippine version of the channel,

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was launched.

Past playoff broadcast criticism

NBA TV was criticized in the past for its first-round playoff coverage merely passing down the broadcast of a game from a

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for national broadcast, amplifying the chosen team's broadcast and bias for said team to a national level. Beginning with the 2011–12 playoffs, NBA TV began to produce a full and neutral national broadcast for those games.

References

External links

NBA TV official website

NBA TV HD schedules
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History

Carriage agreements

Programming

List of programs broadcast by NBA TV

High definition

Personalities

Studio hosts and play-by-play

Studio analysts and color commentators

Contributors

Other hosts

Former hosts and analysts

NBA TV International

Past playoff broadcast criticism

See also

References

External links