Amazon acquires NBA Media Rights, NBA still shopping other parts of deal

[wildturkey]

Posted in the general NBA thread but this is significant enough news to warrant its own thread. How we've watched the NBA for decades is about to change.

So Amazon is going to get a significant chunk of regular season games, some playoff games and it sounds like a conference finals. ESPN is still going to have the Finals and will have some regular season games as well, sounds like basically the same deal they've had for years. That leaves Turner Sports and NBC competing for what's believed to be the final part of the deal. Most going into this believed the NBA was going to break their rights up between three partners with a streamer being one of them (Amazon has won out). If they still stick to three, there's a chance Turner might be left out. It'd be a damn shame to lose the TNT Crew.

 

[bksballer89]

I’m sad

 

[tlance]

I hate this trend.

Only going to get worse.

 

[Sir Robin Of Camelot]

Good news is that Bally won’t be a piece of the puzzle. That alone makes this a positive move for me.

 

[Stakesarehigh]

I might be one of the few who wishes everything sports went A la carte and I could drop "cable" altogether.

I only have Hulu live (I dropped direct tv) because of sports

It does make switching from one game to another difficult when you go from Amazon to Hulu though

 

[Stakesarehigh]

Good news is that Bally won’t be a piece of the puzzle. That alone makes this a positive move for me.

Yea. Bally sucks.

 

[redskinsfan1963]

sucks greatly

 

[bksballer89]

 

[thunderc]

Yea. Bally sucks.

Watched my last game ever on Bally last night. They are done. Fox Sports sure took them to the cleaners.

 

[bksballer89]

 

[wildturkey]

That's at least a little more comforting knowing they'll still be around

 

[wildturkey]

If TNT loses the rights....FUCK

 

[broncosmitty]

I’m sad

No issue with Amazon having games.

But if TNT doesn’t, I’m not sure how I’d react. They have the best coverage of any network, any sport.

 

[wildturkey]

Some details about the Amazon deal

Details of Amazon's proposed NBA rights package revealed

Puck's John Ourand has revealed new details of Amazon's expected NBA rights pacakage, including one conference finals every other year.

awfulannouncing.com

On Monday, Puck’s John Ourand published an update on the NBA’s ongoing negotiations, which included new details regarding Amazon’s piece of the pie. According to Ourand, it is “likely” that the streamer will have a Saturday night window during the regular season, the league’s In-Season Tournament and postseason play-in games, as well as some first and second-round playoff matchups and one conference finals every other year.

 

[logic]

Good news is that Bally won’t be a piece of the puzzle. That alone makes this a positive move for mesome of the Pistons

Bally let Amazon stream some of the Pistons games at the end of the season since, really, who was going to pay for that crap that hadn't already been suckered out of their money. I tried to watch a couple, but they had a blackout region which I was in, like they think I'm paying for that awful product live. So I think I will still have no luck, maybe even less luck if I'm blacked out because I could at least pay for it before. Questionable streaming works until the Pistons can get a product on the floor that is worth financially supporting.

 

[thunderc]

Bally let Amazon stream some of the Pistons games at the end of the season since, really, who was going to pay for that crap that hadn't already been suckered out of their money. I tried to watch a couple, but they had a blackout region which I was in, like they think I'm paying for that awful product live. So I think I will still have no luck, maybe even less luck if I'm blacked out because I could at least pay for it before. Questionable streaming works until the Pistons can get a product on the floor that is worth financially supporting.

Yeah Bally Sports is finished, bankrupt. Amazon is going to take over the Thunder games locally.

 

[logic]

Watched my last game ever on Bally last night. They are done. Fox Sports sure took them to the cleaners.

They fucked themselves by not dealing with cable and streaming packages and trying to go as a stand alone.

 

[logic]

Yeah Bally Sports is finished, bankrupt. Amazon is going to take over the Thunder games locally.

I don't have a problem with Amazon, per se. But if they black me out so i can't get it regardless it's a total dick move.

 

[Sir Robin Of Camelot]

Yeah Bally Sports is finished, bankrupt. Amazon is going to take over the Thunder games locally.

I’m waiting to see how Cuban proceeds. He put 10 games on one of the OTA channels in Dallas after the All Star Break which would be cool except I’m a little out of range for the Dallas channels up here at the border. The OTA channels here did broadcast the games via an agreement but I’m curious as to the going forward plan for both the Mavs & Stars. Getting the sense that MLB may do something with the Rangers where I can just purchase a package and if that’s the direction the Mavs & Stars go then I’m cool with it.

 

[logic]

I miss the days that I lived in San Diego and the Lakers games were all on a broadcast channel (through basic cable).