Amazon.com is getting the League Pass rights. Are they getting the right to operate NBA-TV as well from Turner. If not, couldn't Turner still air "Inside the NBA" on NBA-TV starting with the 2025/2026 season?NBA announces deal with ESPN, NBC and Amazon. TNT to sue the NBA.
NBA announces $77 billion deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon; TNT Sports threatens to sue, per sources
When the current agreements were signed a decade ago, streaming was on the horizon, but not part of the deals.www.nytimes.com
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Will the NBA return to NBC?
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Warner Discovery is suing the NBA over losing its TV rights:
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It seems the NBA just wanted to do this deal with Amazon. WBD may have met them on the money. But Amazon is global.
From what I see in the deal, the NBA wasn't obligated to accept WBD's offer, even if they matched Amazon. WBD had a right to match, but the NBA didn't have to accept it.
WBD takes NBA to court in legal showdown over broadcast rights
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against the NBA over the league’s rejection of its offer to match a bid from Amazon to broadcast the games for the next decade.
It seems the NBA just wanted to do this deal with Amazon. WBD may have met them on the money. But Amazon is global.
From what I see in the deal, the NBA wasn't obligated to accept WBD's offer, even if they matched Amazon. WBD had a right to match, but the NBA didn't have to accept it.
The why did the nba make sure the matching clause wasn’t in new set of contracts? Silver got his feelings hurt with Zaslav made that silly comment about not needing the NBA. Silver is just being petty. The nba/Silver knows they’re cooked and I wouldn’t be surprised if both sides wouldn’t welcome this kind of publicity during the offseason. WBD has a strong case here to keep their rightsWarner Discovery is suing the NBA over losing its TV rights:
WBD takes NBA to court in legal showdown over broadcast rights
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against the NBA over the league’s rejection of its offer to match a bid from Amazon to broadcast the games for the next decade.
It seems the NBA just wanted to do this deal with Amazon. WBD may have met them on the money. But Amazon is global.
From what I see in the deal, the NBA wasn't obligated to accept WBD's offer, even if they matched Amazon. WBD had a right to match, but the NBA didn't have to accept it.
yep, i can see that, but with NBA getting a court order or buyout "out clause" to where they can move away from WBD and start the NBA on NBC & NBA on Amazon deal a season early if they settle before October (which with court cases, it takes a long time just to hold a trial).
The problem is WBD is not asking for money in the lawsuit. WBD wants the NBA game rights which their lawsuit calls a "unique asset that cannot be replaced."
Boo hoo hoo. The NBA owns its product. I don't see anything that says a previous network contractor is perpetually entitled to broadcast rights.
Actually, the MRE does exactly that. WBD is entitled to the NBA rights if they match terms of any "Third Party Offer." The disagreement is over whether WBD's offer matches Amazon's offer because of a very specific way Amazon would be distributing the games that is impossible to match, and WBD claims would be covered under it's current "Non-Broadcast Television" rights which includes “any method of television or video distribution or transmission (other than Broadcast Television), whether now known or hereafter developed, including, but not limited to, all forms of Cable Television (as defined in subparagraph (iv) [therein]), fiber optics, Premium TV, Hotel Pay TV, MDS, MMDS, SMATV, Closed Circuit TV, HDTV, satellite, DBS, microwave, Internet, IPTV, broadband, ‘on-line’, interactive, wireless and telephone transmission.”
🤣 sounds good on paper.
I’m just lost. Does Silver forget or even care that WBD owns Max? He keeps acting like Prime Video can offer so much more than Max
Based on what I read in the article I posted, Prime Video is global, Max is not. Max reaches: United States, Latin America, Caribbean, and parts of Europe. Prime is every country in the world with certain exceptions, such as China, Russia, Cuba, and Syria. So as Silver puts it, Prime is more in line with the goals of the NBA.
Almost triple the number of subscribers in the US.
As is Amazon itself. It can distribute and promote NBA-related merchandise in a way a strictly media entity like WBD can only dream of. The court will have to decide if that aspect of the Prime deal was impossible for WBD to match (yes, most likely), whether it's germane to the specifics of the deal (maybe), and/or whether the NBA's rejection of WBD's matching bid was based on Amazon moving the goalposts after the bids were in.
This will be some good discovery. We will learn a lot about how these deals get constructed.
I think they did but they didn’t want to over pay.
They can't have it both ways. They didn't want to overpay. Once the offers were made, the NBA decided to go with Amazon, NBC, and Disney. Wbd tried to make an offer to match Amazon, but I think the offer didn't exactly match, so NBA went with Amazon, and now wbd is suing. I don't think they will win in court, so what they should have done was try to work out a 4th deal with the NBA if they were desperate.
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The NBA had no intention of going back to TNT regardless of how much they paid. They wanted Amazon as a partner.
Most likely for Amazon's near-global reach and merchandise selling/shipping proficiency. As I said earlier, this lawsuit's success rests on the judge or jury buying into the notion that Amazon's being able to do things that a traditional media company can't is an unfair advantage for Amazon and shouldn't be a criterion WBD's bid has to match. A ruling in WBD's favor would no doubt trigger an appeal from the NBA, not to mention serious legal questions from Amazon.
Also the thought of collusion between the NBA and Amazon could really throw a wrench into things.
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