Category:NBA TV
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NBA TV, officially launched November 2, 1999, is the first 24-hour television channel created and operated by a professional sports league.
With unprecedented carriage through seven of the top 10 cable and satellite companies (Comcast, Time Warner, Cox Communications, Cablevision, Bright House Networks, DIRECTV and DISH Network) plus deals with 11 more cable operators including two among the nation’s top 25 (Blue Ridge Cable and Buckeye CableSystem) NBA TV is available to 67 million U.S. homes.
It can also be seen in 40 other countries, including France, Russia, Spain, Israel, the Philippines, Hong Kong and throughout the Middle East.
Unlike any other 24/7 sports network, NBA TV is live on air more than eight hours per night.
Airs more than 200 games – NBA (96 regular season games in 2005-06, including up to 50 in high-definition), WNBA, D-League, Summer League, Euroleague, and Entertainers Basketball Classic.
Features more than 20 original series programming, including reality miniseries (i.e., "Real Training Camp”), nightly interview and highlight programs (i.e. "NBA TV Insiders,” “NBA Talk,” “NBA TV Daily”), documentary series and shows that focus solely on fantasy basketball ("NBA Fantasy Hoops"), international basketball (“Basketball International” and community service (“NBA Rescue”).
Delivers exclusive coverage of special events no one else can offer, including using authentic NBA players and staff to pull the curtain aside and bring viewers to places they otherwise would never get to see during NBA All-Star, The Finals, and the NBA Draft.
Over 30 NBA and non-NBA big name advertisers have signed up, including, among others, America Online, American Express, Hasbro, EA Sports, Radio Shack, Sprite, Hyundai, The History Channel and Twentieth Century Fox and these companies are doing unique things, including Adidas premiering new shoe commercials on NBA TV with behind the scenes footage.
NBA TV is a 24/7 full-service business with centralized programming and production operations in its Secaucus, NJ facility, which houses all of the NBA’s digital media initiatives, including the NBA.com Network of 60 web sites.
Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. and the NBA reached an agreement in February 2005 to have NBA TV's domestic and international channel and commercial integration operations originate from Turner's Atlanta network operations headquarters.
NBA TV continues to be a leader in High-Definition programming. Through the new arrangement with Turner, the NBA is distributing NBA TV in high-definition 24-hours a day.
Broadcasting & Cable in 2004 claimed "NBA TV pushes technology to new heights" and the channel strengthened that reputation when it launched a real time graphical statistics systems -- Digital Television Interface (DTVi) -- featuring real-time scores and stats from every concurrent game, in-game trends and records.
NBA TV offers Video-on-Demand, with daily game highlights, Top 10 Plays of the Day and encore presentations of original series.
NBA TV videophones set up in all 29 NBA arenas, and can be used on a nightly basis to report breaking news and to televise exclusive player interviews.
Comprehensive game highlights, Top 10 Plays of the Day, up-to-the-minute statistics, NBA team press conferences and breaking news.
It’s a hoop announcer’s dream job, employing more than 20 on-air correspondents, including former 76ers head coach Fred Carter, versatile talents Andre Aldridge and Gary Apple, Hall of Fame guard Gail Goodrich, Emmy winning broadcaster Ahmad Rashad, fantasy hoops guru Rick Kamla, former Olympic swimming champ Summer Sanders, broadcasting legend Bill Raftery and popular columnists Peter Vecsey and Frank Isola.
