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Main article: National Basketball Association on television
ABC gained the NBA in 1964, the network aired its first NBA game on January 3, 1965, but lost the broadcast rights to CBS after the 1972–73 season with the initial tenure ending on May 10, 1973. As the national broadcaster of the NBA, CBS aired NBA games from the 1973-74 until the 1989–90 season, during which the early 1980s is notoriously known as the tape delay playoff era.
NBA entered the cable territory in 1979 when USA Network signed a three-year $1.5 million deal and extended for two years until the 1983-84 season, ESPN also had a brief affair with NBA from 1982 to 1984.
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Association (NBA) games are televised nationally inthe United States, as well as on multiple local channels and regional sports networks. Since the 2002–03...
The following is a general overview of the National Basketball Association (NBA) ontelevisioninthe 2020s. There have been no new national media contracts...
Nationally television broadcasts of National Basketball Association (NBA) games first aired on ABC from 1965 to 1973. In 2002, NBA games returned to ABC...
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Sports). Inthe United States, the TNT cable network has held the rights to broadcast NBA games since 1989, and its telecasts have been streamed on its Max...
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national broadcaster of theNBA) until the 1989–90 NBA season (when CBS was succeeded by NBC Sports). Inthe early 1970s, the CBS television network aired American...
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coverage inthe1970s. The animated character, whose cartoon adventures (produced by Hanna-Barbera) appeared on both NBC's Hockey Game of the Week and...
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cable partners) in which TBS shared theNBAtelevision package along with CBS. The 1989-90 season then saw Turner start to split theNBA cable package between...
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is a pregame television show airing prior to National Basketball Association (NBA) telecasts on ABC and ESPN. The networks have aired NBA games since 2002...
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