The Harlem Globetrotters are returning to US broadcast network television in an exclusive partnership with Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG), on the premiere of Harlem Globetrotters: Play it Forward. The 30-minute weekly series, debuting October 1st on NBC’s The More You Know programming block, marks a return of the Harlem Globetrotters in a weekly television […]
Diamond Sports Group, a subsidiary of Sinclair Broadcast Group, has announced its direct-to-consumer streaming service, Bally Sports+, will officially launch across all 19 Bally Sports regional sports network brands (RSNs) on September 26. “Today is a significant step for the RSN industry as we offer local sports fans across our Bally Sports footprint a new […]
Eleven Italy has acquires the LBA Pay Package of Domestic Audiovisual Rights for the 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025 seasons. From September 2022, the LBA Serie A championship can be watched exclusively on Eleven’s global OTT offering. All Serie A championship matches including the regular season and Playoff, the Final Eight of the Italian Cup, and […]
Hennessy and the National Basketball Association (NBA) have unveiled the UK’s first floating basketball court on the Thames in London, in celebration of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Season and the 2022 Finals. The new court, which is travelling along the river from Woolwich to The Houses of Parliament, will kick off a three-day celebration of basketball in the […]
WSC Sports, a global player in AI sports video technology, has announced that its platform will be used by FC Barcelona to create automated basketball highlights and engaging social content, from both the Liga Endesa and Copa del Rey competitions, to be shared across FC Barcelona’s owned and operated platforms. Powered by WSC Sports’ award-winning […]
As the best teams of the 2021-2022 season move into their Championship Rounds, Italian basketball league Lega Nazionale Pallacanestro (LNP) has confirmed the signing of a multi-year contract extension with end-to-end streaming and OTT solutions provider ViewLift to continue and extend the League’s subscription service, LNP Pass. LNP Pass features all League games live and […]
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has announced that The NBA Paris Game 2023 will feature the six-time NBA champion Chicago Bulls and the three-time NBA champion Detroit Pistons playing a regular-season game at the Accor Arena in Paris on Jan.uary 19th 2023. Tickets for The NBA Paris Game 2023 will go on sale at a […]
Eleven Italy will be enhancing their offering of live basketball with Team Whistle’s Dunk League series. Eleven already brings live coverage of the EuroLeague and EuroCup to Italian basketball fans, and has secured the rights to the men’s and women’s FIBA Basketball world cups over the next couple of years. The platform will now be […]
Apple TV+ has announced that its new five-part documentary series The Long Game: Bigger Than Basketball, chronicling the inspiring, coming-of-age story of basketball phenom Makur Maker, will make its global debut on April 22nd on Apple TV+. Seth Gordon and executive produces the series which follows Maker, the NBA hopeful who grabbed global headlines with […]
The Basketball Africa League (BAL) ja announced its roster of broadcast partners for the 2022 BAL season, which tipped off on March 5th at the Dakar Arena in Dakar, Senegal, and will include stops in Cairo, Egypt and Kigali, Rwanda. The second BAL season will reach fans in 215 countries and territories in 14 languages […]