Tom Friend

NBCUniversal’s impending 11-year $27.5B package with the NBA that debuts in 2025-26 includes 100 regular-season broadcasts each season between NBC and Peacock, as well as over 50 WNBA games -- including three WNBA Finals -- across NBC, Peacock and USA Network. Comcast President Mike Cavanagh, who oversees NBCUniversal, outlined...

The NBA’s pursuit of a new media rights deal has officially gone into overtime, after Warner Bros. Discovery notified the league today that it is trying to match Amazon’s 11-year, $20 billion-plus bid. The question now is whether lawyers take center stage. In the next day...

Warner Bros. Discovery officially notified the NBA this afternoon that it is attempting to match Amazon’s 11-year, approximate $20.9B total bid for the league’s media rights after securing a letter of credit from a group of undisclosed banks, sources familiar with the matter told SBJ. ...

Warner Bros. Discovery has until the end of today to match the NBA media rights bids from either Amazon or NBCUniversal, though possible "poison pills" in the Amazon package could mean the end of a 40-year relationship between the league and Turner Sports. Although sources close to WBD said...

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PHOENIX -- The WNBA’s dream scenario last night -- Caitlin Clark flipping a bounce pass to Angel Reese for a bunny layup in the All-Star Game -- punctuated what Commissioner Cathy Engelbert called a “historic" first half of the season. All the...

PHOENIX -- An all-time high of 24 WNBA sponsors have activations at this weekend's third annual All-Star Game fanfest -- an 85,000-square-foot women's basketball informercial called WNBA Live -- but Phoenix Mercury owner Mat Ishbia was not about to be outdone a half mile down the...

Warner Bros. Discovery formally received the paperwork from the NBA's proposed $77B media rights deal Wednesday night, meaning the company has until end of day Monday to follow up on its claim that it will match Amazon's bid, which sources told SBJ has now grown to more...

LAS VEGAS -- The NBA’s BOG overwhelmingly ratified the league’s  11-year, now $77B media rights deal  last night -- with only the irascible Knicks voting no -- and, according to sources, frozen out incumbent Warner Bros. Discovery now officially intends to match Amazon’s "C" package in...