TNT Sports pundit Karen Carney has shown faith in Man United’s Rasmus Hojlund as the Danish striker made a return to the Red Devils’ starting 11 for their Europa League clash with FC Porto on Thursday night. The 21-year-old has missed the majority of the 2024/25 campaign so far due to injury issues, playing just…
WBD / TNT Sports is making yet another claim against the NBA, this time suggesting the league put a series of “purposely onerous or immaterial” contractual provisions to make it impossible for the company to exercise its matching rights. “The NBA did everything it could to frustrate [WBD’s] ability to match an offer by Amazon….
The NBA announced its new media rights deal on Wednesday afternoon and shared that Warner Bros. Discovery (TNT) failed to match Amazon’s bid. The league said that Amazon Prime will be one of the broadcast partners beyond the 2024-25 season, along with Disney and NBCUniversal. However, this didn’t sit well with TNT, who have been…
NBC and TNT Sports are expected to broadcast Big East men’s and women’s basketball starting in the 2025-26 season. Fox Sports will remain the main partner for the conference, though NBC and TNT Sports are looking to add a significant number of games. NBC will broadcast most of their games on Peacock. The incumbent, CBS…
Warner Bros. Discovery is in negotiations with the NBA about the possibility of a fourth media right package, sources tell Michael McCarthy of FrontOffice Sports. ESPN, Amazon and NBC would be the three media partners of the NBA under the currently proposed deals. WBD has match rights as an incumbent partner, which is believed to…
If TNT loses the NBA beginning with the 25-26 season, Charles Barkley will receive interest from all three media rights partners in ESPN, Amazon and NBC, according to Andrew Marchand. Barkley is under contract beyond 2025, but it is unclear if he has an out dependent on the NBA. Barkley has been outspoken criticizing Warner…
Comcast’s NBCUniversal is closing in on securing the third NBA package and likely unveil a “Basketball Night in America” telecast with its annual bid of $2.5 billion per year, sources tell Sports Business Journal. Sources say Warner Bros. Discovery, parent company of TNT, would have to increase its bid to as much as $2.8 billion…
Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav confirmed that talks with the NBA to keep games on TNT are ongoing. NBC has offered the NBA $2.5 billion per season to essentially replace TNT as the league’s other primary partner alongside ESPN. Amazon will likely enter as a partner for the NBA and broadcast both the NBA…
According to sources from Front Office Sports, ESPN and TNT have matching provisions in their media rights deals with the NBA. Even though they didn’t extend their contracts before the exclusive negotiating window closed, both networks have the opportunity to respond to outside bids before finalizing any agreements. This provision includes both streaming and linear…
Photo: YouTube screenshot The exclusive negotiations between the NBA and Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are expected to end Monday without a deal. Both companies are in talks to continue broadcasting games on ESPN and TNT. The NBA is looking to secure a new flagship streaming partner, with discussions potentially starting with Amazon, Apple, YouTubeTV,…
