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Amazon rescues Diamond Sports

Amazon is taking a 15 per cent stake in Diamond Sports Group that owns television networks broadcasting league sports in some of the US’s biggest markets, expanding its footprint of live games into regional networks that carry NBA, NHL and MLB games. Amazon has agreed a $115 million (€105.9m) minority investment in the largest operator […]

January 18, 2024

Giannis: The Marvelous Journey on Prime Video in Feb

Prime Video has announced the upcoming release of Giannis: The Marvelous Journey, a feature-length documentary that chronicles the odyssey of NBA mega-star Giannis Antetokounmpo from an impoverished childhood in Greece as the son of Nigerian immigrants to the very top of the basketball world. The documentary will premiere February 19th exclusively on Prime Video in more […]

January 16, 2024

ESPN, ABC NBA viewership up 16%

NBA game viewership in the US across ESPN and ABC is up 16 percent from last season, according to Nielsen. The 29 game broadcasts are averaging 1,712,000 viewers, compared to 1,469,000 last year. Game viewership across ESPN and ABC is also up 26 per cent in the P18-34 demo and up 37 per cent amongst […]

December 22, 2023

Forecast: More platforms to board sports streaming bandwagon

As 2023 draws to a close, Brad Altfest, Managing Director of Media and Entertainment at Agora, provider of real-time engagement solutions, has shared his industry predictions for the coming year. Below Altfest shares his thoughts on what’s next for streaming:  The growing importance of Ultra Low Latency (ULL) streaming in sports for the purposes of […]

December 14, 2023

Trail Blazers broadcast AR graphics from handheld camera

disguise, a specialist in real-time visual experiences, has partnered with the Portland Trail Blazers to broadcast augmented reality (AR) graphics created by tracking a handheld camera during a basketball game. The AR graphics bring fans a more in-depth view of the action with live in-game stats. “The NBA has provided live game data for a […]

November 14, 2023

Relo Metrics launches Relo Census

Relo Metrics (formerly GumGum Sports), the AI-powered sponsorship analytics platform for real-time data decisions, has announced Relo Census, a sports sponsorship valuation data set and methodology offering broadcast and social media sponsor valuation for all assets and brands of all games in the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL and MLS to start. Relo Census says it removes […]

November 7, 2023

TNT Sports reveals first NBA broadcast games

TNT Sports’ coverage of the NBA in the UK & Ireland tips off on Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning (BST) with a dazzling double-header featuring some of the game’s greatest-ever players featuring the likes of Nikola Jokic, LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant on opening night.NBA champions Denver Nuggets host the Los Angeles Lakers (00:30 BST) […]

October 23, 2023

Malta: NBA on Screach

Screenreach, a UK-based technology company, has reached a multiyear agreement with the NBA to broadcast select games from the NBA season live to commercial venues in Malta via its cloud-based Screach platform. In the NBA’s first collaboration of its kind in Europe, Screach will expand its live game offering by making live NBA games available […]

October 19, 2023

TNT Sports scores NBA deal

TNT Sports and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have announced a multiyear broadcast deal that will deliver more than 250 live games and a range of NBA programming to fans in the UK and Ireland exclusively on TNT Sports’ platforms. NBA coverage on TNT Sports will tip-off on October 24th with a doubleheader.  In the […]

October 16, 2023

Bleacher Report sports tier to launch on Max in US

Max and Warner Bros Discovery Sports have announced a Bleacher Report (B/R) Sports Add-On tier coming to Max starting October 5th.  The Bleacher Report Sports Add-On package will deliver a full slate of premium live sports, including MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA Men’s March Madness, and US Soccer events, The Match, Emmy Award-winning studio shows such […]

September 20, 2023