What Channel Is The Nba Game On Regular Tv?
If you’re looking to catch the NBA action on regular TV, you’ll want to know what channel the game is on. Here’s a quick guide to help you out.
NBA on ESPN
The NBA is on ESPN tonight at 9:00 pm EST. You can catch the game on ESPN, or you can switch to ABC to catch the game.
ESPN
ESPN is a U.S.-based global cable and satellite television channel that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network) and the Hearst Communications (which owns a 20% minority share). The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen along with his son Scott Rasmussen and Ed Egan.
ESPN broadcasts primarily from studio facilities located in Bristol, Connecticut. The network also operates offices in Miami, New York City, Seattle, Charlotte, and Los Angeles. James Pitaro currently serves as chairman of ESPN, a position he has held since March 5, 2018.
The Major League Baseball (MLB) games telecast on ESPN are done through an agreement with MLB Advanced Media—the organization which also handles online streaming for MLB.tv—and the league itself. In early August 2007, it was announced that ESPN had agreed to carry 44 MLB Sunday Night Baseball telecasts during the 2007 regular season beginning on Sunday, April 1.
On October 30, 2012, it was reported that ESPN had reached a new eight-year deal with the National Basketball Association (NBA) to carry NBA games on ESPN and ABC beginning with the 2012–13 season and running through the 2021–22 season; the deal will see games air on both linear television networks as well as via espn3—ESPN’s live multi-screen sports network—with ABC also carrying up to five games on Saturday nights during the NBA regular season schedule.
TNT
TNT is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by the Turner Broadcasting System division of WarnerMedia. The channel’s programming consists of television series and feature films, with a focus on drama, sports, and comedic programming.
NBA on ABC
The NBA on ABC is the exclusive home of the NBA Finals, and we will have all the action covered this year. The ABC schedule for the NBA Finals will be released soon, but we do know that the games will air on ABC.
ABC
The NBA on ABC is a presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games produced by ESPN, and televised on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). ABC originally broadcast NBA games from 1965 to 1973. In 2002, NBA games returned to the network as part of a contract signed with the league, along with ESPN.
ESPN on ABC airs NBA games on Saturday afternoons, Sunday afternoons and Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. The Saturday games are mostly doubleheaders while the Sunday games are usually single games. While ESPN airs most of the Wednesday night games during the regular season, ABC airs some Wednesday night games during the season’s final weeks, as well as all of the playoff games up until the Finals.
In addition to its regular schedule of games, ESPN on ABC also airs one conference final each year. The exact conference finals that ESPN on ABC airs depend on which teams qualify and how far they advance in the playoffs.
The NBA on ABC logo used from 2002 to 2006
NBA on NBC
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men’s professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada). It is widely considered to be the premier men’s professional basketball league in the world. The NBA is an active member of USA Basketball (USAB),[3] which is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the national governing body for basketball in the United States.
NBC
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is an American professional basketball league. It is composed of 30 teams and is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The league was founded in New York City on June 6, 1946, as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). It changed its name to the National Basketball Association on August 3, 1949, after absorbing the rival National Basketball League (NBL). The NBA’s regular season runs from October to April, with each team playing 82 games.Its playoffs extend into June.
The NBA Finals are played between the champions of the Eastern Conference and the Western Conference. The winning team of the NBA Finals receives the Larry O’Brien Championship Trophy. The current champions are the Toronto Raptors, who defeated the Golden State Warriors in six games in 2019.
Television broadcasts of NBA games began in 1953 on NBC, featuring then-broadcasting giants such as Marty Glickman and Chick Hearn on play-by-play, with analystBill Flemming joining them in later years. Glickman is considered by some to be television’s first sports broadcaster.[2][3] For much of its early history, NBC only carried game telecasts from Thanksgiving Day until Christmas Day; this started to change when it began airing games during Saturday afternoon doubleheaders during college basketball season beginning in 1971–72. In 1973–74, NBC began televising a limited number of regular season games Big East Conference men’s basketball teams as part of a contract that also included televising conference tournament games; this agreement increased over time such that by 1983–84,NBC was televising all Big East Conference men’s basketball home games not televised by another network—essentially carrying every conference game that wasn’t being televised by ESPN at that time—under a time-buy arrangement with Providence College.[4][5]
In 1975–76, NBC took over broadcasting duties from ABC for portion of CBS’ coverage package (consisting mostly of Midwestern-based teams), which it had held since 1955. During this period until their respective acquisitions by Fox Sports Net/ Liberty Media in 2002 and 2003 respectively) cable TV channelsMSG Network and SportsChannel New York served as de facto co-primary rightsholders of Knicks and Nets broadcasts ( MSG also acquired rights to carry game telecasts involving other New York area-based NHL and NBA teams).
NBA on CBS
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is the premier professional basketball league in the United States and Canada. CBS has been the NBA’s exclusive television partner since 1954. That means that regular-season games, as well as the NBA Playoffs and Finals, are broadcast on CBS.
CBS
The NBA on CBS is the branding used for weekly broadcasts of National Basketball Association (NBA) games produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States.
Beginning with the 1973–74 NBA season, CBS took over from NBC as the broadcaster of NBA games.
Within a few years after assuming rights to the NBA, CBS initiated major changes to how the games were presented on television.
In addition, NBA players became more visible on commercials and TV shows outside of their game play (most notably, in a series of commercials for post cereal during the 1980s).
However, by 1989, viewership for NBA games on CBS had begun to decline amid competition from other networks such as NBC (which had regained National Football League [NFL] broadcast rights that year), as well as Turner Network Television [TNT], which began televising NBA games in that same year.
As a result, after 27 years of carrying NBA games, CBS’s final Game of the Week telecast occurred on April 17, 2005 (a First Round playoff match between The Detroit Pistons and The Milwaukee Bucks), after which ABC assumed exclusive rights to nationally televising all remaining NBA playoff games (as well as any future Game of the Week telecasts during the regular season).
