NBA League Pass is the National Basketball Association 's direct-to-consumer subscription-based product that provides live and on-demand NBA games. It is available to those in the United States and also as an international package for all other countries. TV versions can be viewed through a cable or satellite TV provider, as well as an over-the-top streaming service operated by the league.
41-568: NBA TV is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through TNT Sports . Dedicated to basketball , the network features exhibition, regular season and playoff game broadcasts from the NBA and related professional basketball leagues, as well as NBA-related content including analysis programs, specials and documentaries . The network
82-695: A customer switches to the new 'Spectrum' billing plan which united Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks under the Spectrum branding (this is all likely unrelated to Charter's inherited naming rights of the Charlotte Hornets ' home arena, the Spectrum Center ). As of June 2023, the channel was available in 38.6 million homes in the United States. NBA TV offers news programs devoted to basketball daily, in addition to programs showcasing
123-548: A new dedicated camera angle with a tighter, zoomed-in shot of gameplay. The league will provide a camera and a producer for the feature at each regular-season game, who will have access to the special camera and all others in use for the production. In 2016, the WNBA launched WNBA League Pass which featured live out-of-market games. The service includes a full-season, one-team, and single-game package. Nationally televised games are only available as archives, and are not available live on
164-455: A renewal agreement with Cox Communications earlier in the year. With all of the above carriage deals, the NBA estimates that it would increase NBA TV's overall subscriber reach to 45 million pay television homes. On October 29, 2010, AT&T U-verse reached a carriage deal to carry the channel's standard and high definition feeds. NBA TV is not available to legacy Charter Communications customers using outdated billing plans, which carried
205-629: A stand-alone package. International League Pass offers a rolling free trial of the product throughout the season, allowing first time users to preview the League Pass experience before purchasing. Note: Subscriptions can be bought in most regions via the Internet to be streamed to applications on various devices or to a browser (see above for list). Some of the following services include League Pass, either fully or partially, but they are not required to view League Pass. Apps are currently available for: For
246-524: A variety of devices, including desktop computers, iPhones, iPads, Android phones and tablets, and TV-connected devices like Apple TV, Android TV, Google Chromecast, Xbox and PlayStation consoles (the platforms supported differ by country). Subscribers are also able to use in-game features including multi-game viewing, stats windows, and a condensed game feature that only includes scoring and highlight plays. Additional features, such as access to NBA TV and multi-device streaming, vary by subscription. Beginning in
287-486: A week, deferring any TNT game nights outside the playoffs to repeating that evening's edition of Inside the NBA . An edited 90-minute version of the broadcast is repeated during the overnight and early morning hours. On October 11, 2017, it was announced that the Players Only franchise, which made its debut last season on TNT , will show live games on NBA TV, starting October 24, 2017 and every Tuesday after that, for
328-485: Is a 1080i high-definition simulcast feed of NBA TV that is available on most providers. All studio programs and original programs are shot in HD, and all live games and recent game rebroadcasts are televised in HD. The high-definition version of this channel was launched in 2007. The studio host and analysts vary on each night's broadcast of NBA Gametime . NBA TV International is a feed of NBA TV available in countries outside
369-458: Is available on NBA.com. It offers both live and on-demand replays of games dating back to the 2012–13 season. The national and local blackout restrictions apply for streaming live games. On-demand classic games and documentaries are also available, as well as live access to NBA TV. A premium tier of the service also allows subscribers to stream on two devices simultaneously, as well view in-arena content during commercial breaks. NBA League Pass TV
410-407: Is available through a cable or satellite TV provider, as well as an over-the-top streaming version directly from NBA.com. If a local team is playing and the game is televised in the home market, the associated feed on League Pass is blacked out and unavailable for viewing. Nationally televised games on ABC , ESPN , TNT , and NBA TV are also blacked out. A streaming version of NBA League Pass
451-561: Is available with these cable, satellite and streaming providers in the United States: Most providers who offer subscriptions to League Pass TV also include NBA TV and a companion League Pass Broadband subscription. It is also included in some cable subscriptions. NBA International League Pass is available to users living outside the United States, and differs from the US version of the product in its content, packaging, and pricing. While both
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#1732855712550492-730: Is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia . The network also serves as the national broadcaster of the NBA G League and WNBA games. NBA TV is the oldest subscription network in North America to be owned or controlled by a professional sports league, having launched on November 2, 1999. As of November 2023, NBA TV is available to approximately 37,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2013 peak of 61,000,000 households. The network launched on November 2, 1999 as nba.com TV ;
533-631: The Euroleague and the Maccabi Tel Aviv team from Israel . In April 2005, NBA TV televised the Chinese Basketball Association finals for the first time. The channel's flagship program is NBA Gametime Live , a program focusing on news headlines within the NBA and related leagues (including the WNBA and G League), highlights and look-ins at games currently in progress presented by a host and studio analysts. The show airs live six days
574-517: The Finals , as well as All-Star live games and contests and most nationally televised U.S. games (such as those seen on ABC, TNT, ESPN and US feed of NBA TV); the rights to those games are instead sold to domestic television networks in each territory. As of 2022, NBA TV International can be seen in 100 countries via the following partners: NBA TV Canada , the Canadian version of the channel, carries some of
615-446: The NBA draft . Live games on NBA TV are subject to local blackout restrictions, since NBA TV (despite being owned by the league) does not hold the exclusive broadcast rights to any of its games. Games carried by NBA TV are also carried by each team's local rights holder, either a regional sports network or a broadcast television station. The network also shows international games, typically on Saturday evenings, with special emphasis on
656-639: The NFL regular season (thus avoiding competition with Thursday Night Football ), NBA TV Center Court was moved to Monday nights for most of the season, though it would continue to air select broadcasts on Tuesdays when TNT has other programming commitments. Beginning 2021, NBA TV began to broadcast a package of men's and women's Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) college basketball games in February as an observance of Black History Month . This marked NBA TV's first broadcasts of college basketball games. NBA TV HD
697-400: The 2013–14 season, League Pass's apps were updated with the ability to select home and away feeds on all games, and video-on-demand access for games broadcast nationally. For the 2016–17 season, a new feature known as "Mobile View" was introduced, which allows viewers to access a special feed of the home telecast with optimizations for viewing on smartphones. The Mobile View feed will utilize
738-431: The 2014–15 season, NBA International League Pass introduced continuous game feeds for selected games and all home feeds, which replaced the game break videos (highlights, commercials, etc.) shown during play breaks with highlight clips, live footage of in-arena activities including dance team performances, half-time entertainment, fans in the crowd, and interviews or features produced by the local broadcaster. In addition to
779-420: The 2021–22 regular season, NBA League Pass saw a 30 percent increase in global subscribers. Total viewership numbers are unclear. NBA League Pass in the U.S. is an out-of-market sports package that allows its subscribers to watch up to 40 out-of-market National Basketball Association games a week. Videos of the games come from local stations and regional sports networks . A TV version, NBA League Pass TV ,
820-591: The CNN/SI shutdown. On October 8, 2007, it was reported that the National Basketball Association would transfer the channel's operations to Time Warner's Turner Sports division (operated by the company's Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary). Turner took over the channel's operations on October 28, 2008, and began using the same announcers and analysts used on TNT's NBA telecasts . Analysis and news programming also received an upgrade, with production of
861-413: The NBA to continue carrying NBA TV, moving it (and out-of-market sports package NBA League Pass ) from the satellite provider's Sports Pack add-on tier to its lower-priced Choice Xtra base package on October 1, 2009. DirecTV believed the move will make the channel available to an additional eight million subscribers. On June 4, 2009, Comcast announced that it had reached an agreement with the NBA to move
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#1732855712550902-402: The U.S., in addition to distribution in 30 countries worldwide. After Time Warner shut down the sports news network CNN/SI in 2002, many cable providers replaced that network with NBA TV. The network mainly launched with two purposes; to serve as a barker channel for the league's out-of-market sports package NBA League Pass , along with featuring statistical and scoring information which
943-515: The US and international products feature games available for live or on-demand viewing, the major distinction between the two products is that International League Pass provides access to all NBA games played during the regular season, All Star Weekend, Playoffs, and Finals, free from blackout restrictions. The single exception to this offering is in Canada, where games televised nationally are blacked out live and are available for on-demand viewing only after
984-404: The United States, utilizing the same studio for analysis and commentary segments and taped programming (except for FIBA events and highlights), but largely airs a different lineup of games than the U.S. channel. NBA TV International shows one or two live regular season games per day, with the delayed coverage of selected playoffs that not broadcast live by NBA TV, all conference semis, finals and
1025-2574: The ability for one person to see every single game their team plays over the course of the season. In the United States, these channels broadcast most regular season games of major pro sports league and many other sports as well, with over the air television networks stepping in during the weekends or special events (all-star games, championships, etc.). † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of news channels, only offers sports part-time National sports networks National sports networks † – Channel primarily televises others types of news or entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time Premium, streaming and ethnic sports networks National sports networks † – Channel primarily televises others types of news or entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time National sports networks † – Channel primarily televises others types of news or entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time Regional sports networks † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of programs, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time †† - Channel televises entertainment and also sports. † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV & news programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment TV programmes, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of movies channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time † – Channel primarily televises others types of entertainment channels, only offers sports part-time NBA League Pass During
1066-572: The broadcast of a game from a regional sports network for national broadcast, amplifying the chosen team's broadcast and bias for said team to a national level. Beginning with the 2011–12 playoffs, NBA TV began to produce a full and neutral national broadcast for those games. Sports channel Sports channels are television speciality channels (usually available exclusively through cable and satellite ) broadcast sporting events , usually live, and when not broadcasting events, sports news and other related programming. The first sports channel
1107-505: The channel from the cable provider's Sports Entertainment Package to its basic level Digital Classic package, by the start of the 2009–10 NBA season. Like DirecTV, Comcast estimated that an additional eight million customers would effectively gain access to the channel. Verizon FiOS added the channel and NBA League Pass to its systems on September 23, 2009. The network also signed new multi-year agreements with Time Warner Cable , Cablevision and Dish Network on October 22, 2009, as well as
1148-496: The channel, which was renamed to the second and current name on 11 February 2003, originally operated from studio facilities housed at NBA Entertainment in Secaucus , New Jersey . The network signed a multi-year carriage agreement with three of the U.S.'s five largest cable providers, Cox Communications , Cablevision and Time Warner Cable , on June 28, 2003; this expanded the network's reach to 45 million pay television households in
1189-608: The first half of the 2017–18 season before transitioning to TNT for the remainder of the regular season starting January 23, 2018. After the cancellation of Players Only in 2019, Tuesday (first half) and Monday (second half) night games on NBA TV were rebranded as NBA TV Center Court , with Brian Anderson handling the Tuesday night games and Spero Dedes the Monday night games. They are joined alongside Greg Anthony and Dennis Scott . With TNT moving its marquee games to Tuesdays in 2021 during
1230-468: The game is completed. International League Pass also provides access to games from previous seasons through archives. International users have the option of subscribing to several package options, varying by region: NBA League Pass, League Pass Premium, Team Choice, Game Choice, and 3-Game Choice. Subscribers to all packages are able to watch NBA games from Summer League, preseason, regular season, All Star Weekend, Playoffs, and Finals live or on-demand from
1271-399: The league. For several months, the future of the channel remained uncertain with no entity designated to operate the channel. On November 18, TNT parent company Warner Bros. Discovery announced that they reached a settlement with the NBA, which included TNT Sports maintaining operational control of NBA TV. On April 16, 2009, DirecTV announced that it had reached a carriage agreement with
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1312-538: The lives of individual basketball players, documentaries focusing on a particular NBA team during the season and archived broadcasts of well-known games. NBA TV carries at least 90 regular season games per season, which typically air four days a week during the NBA season (mainly on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, although occasional Wednesday, Friday and Sunday games may air in the event that ESPN does not hold rights to coverage on those nights), as well as some first-round playoff games. It also carries its own coverage of
1353-399: The network as NBA.com TV prior to 2004, due to unknown carriage conflicts; NBA League Pass was likewise unavailable on Charter until a broader rollout for the 2020–21 season began (on May 18, 2016, Charter acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks for $ 78.7 billion, which both carried the network). NBA TV has been available to Charter households where available since February 2017, if
1394-431: The programs being relocated to Studio B at Turner Studios in Atlanta , Georgia , located adjacent to Studio J, where TNT's post-game program Inside the NBA is broadcast. The repeats of NBA games on TBS and TNT began in 2009, as NBA Classics . In 2024, the NBA signed a new media rights deal with ABC / ESPN , NBC and Amazon Prime Video beginning in the 2025–26 season, ending TNT's broadcasting relationship with
1435-730: The regular season have also been made available in a separate "Race to the Playoffs" package. During the off-season, both International League Pass and International League Pass Premium subscribers have live and on-demand access to Summer League games and certain games or scrimmages played by the USA Basketball team in preparation for or during the Olympics and the FIBA World Cup tournament, in addition to continued access to past NBA regular seasons in archives. This summer content has also been sold as
1476-492: The same game broadcasts as the flagship U.S. service, ESPN, and TNT instead of the secondary game package found on NBA TV International. On 16 October 2010, NBA Premium TV was launched in the Philippines . It was a redirect broadcast of NBA TV and aired locally televised and nationally televised games in the United States. It went defunct on 1 October 2019, almost 9 years after it existed. In February 2012, NBA TV International
1517-546: The service. As of 2023, Athletes Unlimited Basketball games are also available on the platform. The 2013 NBA Summer League was available as a streaming subscription service with an app' for IOS and Android devices in the 2013 off-season. Priced at $ 14.99, all 61 games in both the Orlando Pro Summer League and the Las Vegas League were included in the price. Summer League is now included as part of
1558-411: The standard and Premium packages, users also have the option to purchase a stand-alone streaming subscription to NBA TV International, which broadcasts games, studio shows, press conferences, and other basketball content. In past seasons, International League Pass has also offered sampling packages that provide stand-alone access to Christmas Day games and All Star Weekend events. The last several weeks of
1599-485: Was from the SportsChannel networks, which went on the air in 1977 with the original SportsChannel (now MSG Plus ). ESPN began broadcasting in 1979. Since then, many channels have surfaced around the world, many focusing on one sport in particular, or one region of a country, showing only their local team's games. These networks have greatly improved the availability of sports broadcasts, generating opportunities such as
1640-506: Was made available on NBA.TV as an internet subscription channel outside the United States. On beIN Channels Network in the Arab world , NBA TV is not available, though beIN Sports NBA airs some of the same games. On 31 July 2020, the Philippine version of the channel, NBA TV Philippines , was launched. NBA TV was criticized in the past for its first-round playoff coverage merely passing down
1681-520: Was more easily accessible in the pre- broadband age, and it featured mainly archival content from the NBA Entertainment archives in its upper pane to fill programming time. As time went on, the network added more programming, including international basketball leagues and programming from FIBA usually unseen in the American market. The programming mix and channel format changed around the same time of