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Australia: NBL Fan Channel goes live

The National Basketball League (NBL) in Australia has announced the the official launch of the NBL Fan Channel. NBL fans can build their own channel via the NBL website, utilising a cloud-based video technology developed by Linius Technologies. Users can generate their own personalised video stream around their favourite team, players and games that can […]

December 10, 2021

FreeSports on Samsung TV Plus

Premier Media Broadcasting and Samsung have announced that FreeSports is now available on the Samsung TV Plus platform in the UK, where viewers can watch free live sports every day from around the world featuring football, cricket, motorsport, rugby union, rugby league, pool, ice hockey and more. The free, ad-supported service is available to all […]

December 9, 2021

India: NBA, Viacom18 sign TV, OTT deal

The NBA and Viacom18 have announced a multiyear partnership to deliver live NBA games and programming to fans in India across TV and streaming. Beginning with the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Season in 2021-22, Viacom18 will provide coverage of the NBA’s regular season and marquee events in English and Hindi through its Vh1 and MTV channels, […]

December 3, 2021

Eleven Italy nets FIBA rights

Eleven Italy has agreed a partnership with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) to deliver live coverage of FIBA´s international calendar of events until 2025. The deal will see Eleven stream over 1000 games in total, including every match from the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup 2022, the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023, and the men’s […]

November 26, 2021

NBA, Sportsradar sign streaming & betting deal

The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Sportradar, the global sports technology company creating immersive experiences for sports fans and bettors, have announced an expansive multiyear partnership agreement that will see the NBA, Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) and NBA G League use Sportradar’s global and wide-ranging capabilities to grow US operations, increase their international footprint […]

November 18, 2021

SoCal Challenge NCAA Basketball on CBS Sports Network

SoCal Challenge has announced that four key games in its inaugural tournament Thanksgiving week will air on CBS Sports Network. The NCAA Men’s Division I MTE at The Pavilion at JSerra in San Juan Capistrano is hosted by the Big West Conference, and the teams include TCU, Fresno State, Pepperdine, Santa Clara, CalPoly SLO, Idaho, […]

October 27, 2021

190 NBA games live on Sky Sports this season

The NBA’s landmark 75th Anniversary season that tips off this week will feature a record-equaling 48 games in primetime in Europe as part of the league’s ‘NBA Saturdays and NBA Sundays presented by NBA 2K22’ primetime initiative. Week 1 will see the Cleveland Cavaliers host the Atlanta Hawks live on October 23rd with the Charlotte […]

October 22, 2021By Nik Roseveare

Basketball Champions League and WSC Sports extend partnership on AI highlights

The Basketball Champions League and WSC Sports, the global leader in AI sports video technology, today announced the extension of their partnership to bring automated real-time video highlights to the BCL until 2024. The BCL, together with its official broadcast and marketing rights holder SPORTFIVE, will be working with WSC Sports to provide BCL with […]

October 11, 2021

Italy: Eleven scores EuroLeague rights

The Eleven Group has acquired exclusive digital rights in Italy to the EuroLeague and EuroCup for the next three seasons. Eleven will stream every game from European basketball’s top-tier competitions from 2021 to 2024, including every minute of the Italian teams – X Armani Exchange Milan, Virtus Segafredo Bologna, Umana Reyer Venice and Dolomiti Energia […]

September 14, 2021