New NBA TV rights deal: Channels and learn how to watch video games

The NBA schedule was launched this week throughout a number of days and highlighted the brand new TV rights deal the league got here to final fall.

The new schedule options video games on ABC, ESPN, NBC, Peacock and Amazon Prime and the league will air video games nationally on every day of the week.

Peacock will host a double-header each week on Monday adopted by NBC airing two regional video games every Tuesday. ESPN may have its normal double-header on Wednesday nights whereas Amazon Prime takes over Thursday nights with prime-time video games after Thursday Night Football concludes in January. Amazon can even air double-headers on Friday night time with ESPN sometimes selecting up video games on Friday. ABC will air prime time video games on Saturday, per final season, however Amazon Prime will choose up daytime video games as properly. Games on Sunday will likely be aired on NBC as soon as Sunday Night Football wraps up in January.

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In whole, NBCUniversal will air “up to 100 games,” per the tv protection plan, with Disney and Amazon Prime airing 80 and 66 video games, respectively.

The Emirates NBA Cup quarterfinals, semifinals and championship will completely air on Amazon Prime whereas Christmas Day video games will stay on ABC and ESPN.

ABC may have a convention last in 10 of 11 years the contract runs by way of. Disney will get 18 video games a yr throughout the primary two rounds of the playoffs, whereas NBCUniversal will air 28 throughout NBC and Peacock and Amazon will stream one-third of all video games throughout the platform.

More on the TV rights deal: Here

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Here’s a take a look at the place NBA video games will air all through the week:

• Sunday: ABC, NBC, Peacock

• Monday: Peacock

• Tuesday: NBC, Peacock

• Wednesday: ESPN

• Thursday: Amazon Prime

• Friday: Amazon Prime, ESPN

• Saturday: Amazon Prime and ABC