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Apple’s Makur Maker docuseries debuts April 22

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 […]

April 1, 2022

BAL announces 2022 broadcast partners

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 […]

March 7, 2022

SN1, Content Arena record international TV coverage for Lega Basket

Lega Basket Serie A has announced a record in the international TV coverage of the 2021/22 LBA Serie A UnipolSai season thanks to 3 new agreements brokered by sports and media consultancy SN1 Trading and Content Arena, the software partner for media rights sales. In Europe, the league gained a new partner in Best4Sport, a […]

February 28, 2022

Pixellot, The National Travel Basketball Association partnership

Pixellot, a provider of AI-Automated sports video and analytics solutions, has partnered with The National Travel Basketball Association (NTBA), the youth travel basketball tournament operator to provide software and hardware solutions for the capture, production and streaming of basketball games and tournaments across the US.  NTBA hosts events across the country for boys and girls […]

January 25, 2022

Disney+ orders The Crossover series

The Crossover, a drama series based on the critically acclaimed bestselling novel in verse by Kwame Alexander, has been ordered to series by Disney+. The Disney Branded Television series will be produced by 20thTelevision and will start production in February. The pilot episode was directed by George Tillman Jr and was written by Alexander and […]

January 20, 2022

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