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Starting in the 2025-2026 season.

https://www.nba.com/news/nba-media-agreements-2024

ESPN/ABC
-80 regular season games total
-60 games on ESPN (Wednesdays and select Fridays)
-20 games on ABC (Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons)
-Christmas Day (5 games)
-Final Day of the Regular Season (2 games)
-Round 1 and Round 2 of the NBA Playoffs (18 games)
-10 Conference Finals
-NBA Finals
-All-Star Celebrity Game
-NBA Draft
-NBA Draft Lottery
-Half of all NBA Summer League games

NBC/Peacock
-100 regular season games total
-50 games on NBC (Tuesdays and Sundays beginning in February)
-50 games on Peacock (Monday doubleheader)
-Opening Night doubleheader
-MLK Day doubleheader
-NBA All-Star Weekend (minus Celebrity Game)
-NBA Playoffs Round 1 and Round 2 (28 games)
-Six Conference Finals

Amazon
-66 regular season games total (Thursday doubleheaders beginning in January, Fridays, select Saturday afternoons)
-Opening Week Doubleheader
-Black Friday
-NBA Cup (quarters, semis and final - 7 games total)
-Play In Tournament (6 games total)
-NBA Playoffs Round 1 and Round 2 (1/3rd of games)
-Six Conference Finals
-Half of NBA Summer League

Watching NBA games is a nightmare apparently and it won't get any easier.

Requires something like this?

Monthly: $76.99 (Hulu + Live TV with ads) + $5.99 (Peacock Premium with ads) + $14.99 (Amazon Prime Video) = $97.97

eyriq wrote:Requires something like this?

Monthly: $76.99 (Hulu + Live TV with ads) + $5.99 (Peacock Premium with ads) + $14.99 (Amazon Prime Video) = $97.97

Gross. And then throw in NBA league pass if you want to watch other games too.... and Bally Sports for your local games that are still presumably being blacked out.

Thanks Knightro for the breakdown of the media rights BTW

thelead wrote:

eyriq wrote:Requires something like this?

Monthly: $76.99 (Hulu + Live TV with ads) + $5.99 (Peacock Premium with ads) + $14.99 (Amazon Prime Video) = $97.97

Gross. And then throw in NBA league pass if you want to watch other games too.... and Bally Sports for your local games that are still presumably being blacked out.

Thanks Knightro for the breakdown of the media rights BTW

I have Hulu plus live TV and have to pay for Bally. I’m not paying Peacock or Amazon. I have Amazon with prime but if I have to pay extra. I’m not watching.

eyriq wrote:Requires something like this?

Monthly: $76.99 (Hulu + Live TV with ads) + $5.99 (Peacock Premium with ads) + $14.99 (Amazon Prime Video) = $97.97

Let's be honest here, this is only if you are going to try to be a die hard and watch every single game that is offered during the season which most won't do. Most fans will just catch what's on the normal live tv subscription which will only be ESPN, NBC, and ABC games. And I feel like many already have Amazon prime. The real additional cost in my opinion is Peacock and that is only 6 dollars.

Anyway, this just shows the issues of all "a la carte viewing". It was marketed as something that would be cheaper than cable as you got to choose what you would subscribe to without paying for the extra channels you don't want. But turns out unless you were one that really watched one subscription, which most do not, it would be equal or greater than cable.

DetroitDon15 wrote:

thelead wrote:

eyriq wrote:Requires something like this?

Monthly: $76.99 (Hulu + Live TV with ads) + $5.99 (Peacock Premium with ads) + $14.99 (Amazon Prime Video) = $97.97

Gross. And then throw in NBA league pass if you want to watch other games too.... and Bally Sports for your local games that are still presumably being blacked out.

Thanks Knightro for the breakdown of the media rights BTW

I have Hulu plus live TV and have to pay for Bally. I’m not paying Peacock or Amazon. I have Amazon with prime but if I have to pay extra. I’m not watching.

I feel like you are the example of what most will do.

Rainwater wrote:

eyriq wrote:Requires something like this?

Monthly: $76.99 (Hulu + Live TV with ads) + $5.99 (Peacock Premium with ads) + $14.99 (Amazon Prime Video) = $97.97

Let's be honest here, this is only if you are going to try to be a die hard and watch every single game that is offered during the season which most won't do. Most fans will just catch what's on the normal live tv subscription which will only be ESPN, NBC, and ABC games. And I feel like many already have Amazon prime. The real additional cost in my opinion is Peacock and that is only 6 dollars.

Anyway, this just shows the issues of all "a la carte viewing". It was marketed as something that would be cheaper than cable as you got to choose what you would subscribe to without paying for the extra channels you don't want. But turns out unless you were really watched one subscription, which most do not, it would be equal or greater than cable.

My main thing is watching all the Magic games, which I typically can do with Bally. What gets annoying is when we are nationally televised and I need additional platforms.

eyriq wrote:

Rainwater wrote:

eyriq wrote:Requires something like this?

Monthly: $76.99 (Hulu + Live TV with ads) + $5.99 (Peacock Premium with ads) + $14.99 (Amazon Prime Video) = $97.97

Let's be honest here, this is only if you are going to try to be a die hard and watch every single game that is offered during the season which most won't do. Most fans will just catch what's on the normal live tv subscription which will only be ESPN, NBC, and ABC games. And I feel like many already have Amazon prime. The real additional cost in my opinion is Peacock and that is only 6 dollars.

Anyway, this just shows the issues of all "a la carte viewing". It was marketed as something that would be cheaper than cable as you got to choose what you would subscribe to without paying for the extra channels you don't want. But turns out unless you were really watched one subscription, which most do not, it would be equal or greater than cable.

My main thing is watching all the Magic games, which I typically can do with Bally. What gets annoying is when we are nationally televised and I need additional platforms.

The radio.....

I understand everyones frustration. My bally sports experiment in the playoffs was straight up terrible. The idea that you guys tolerate that for an almost 82 game season is dreadful.

I might, I mean seriously MIGHT get bally sports this season in the hopes of spending time with my son. But otherwise, radio is well...free?

As many here say and will continue too. This idea that one place could bid for a service and we just go purchase that single service inexpensively is now officially a fraud.

Yeah, I’m primarily just a Magic fan, as long as Bally Sports carries them on Directv I’m good. Not going to be getting all these other services, it’s ridiculous nowadays anyway keeping up with all the streaming options. I have a few for movies and shows, like NetFlix, Prime and the Disney Plus bundle. That’s my limit though.

I live out of state in NC so I think I'll still be able to watch all our games on League Pass that aren't against CHA and blacked out? Or if any games are on any of those other services I guess league pass will black them out? IDK. I have a feeling one or more of these companies is going to regret writing those multi-billion dollar checks.

Eerrrr... any of you guys just watch it via "links" wink wink

if they think I'm paying for all that **** they'll be pretty disappointed. Time to start ironing things out with this new VPN

eyriq wrote:Requires something like this?

Monthly: $76.99 (Hulu + Live TV with ads) + $5.99 (Peacock Premium with ads) + $14.99 (Amazon Prime Video) = $97.97

Awesome!

I already have each of these and as I live in Texas already use NBA League Pass through Amazon for Magic games.

Pushing more NBA (and hopefully NFL) games through the streaming services I already use simplifies the experiences.

The only thing I like about this is it hopefully means better video quality for some games because TNT was always S*** and Amazon might put more money into the broadcast? But I don't know for sure if one thing has anything to do with the other.

But the harder they make it to watch the games, the more some people will look to alternative link-watching.

I gave up my Amazon Prime membership after they removed ATMOS audio/made it a premium tier charge awhile back.
No plans on going back to it.

Being out of state, I've got it easy with league pass.

I’m in Tennessee so I league pass it anyway…watch the Grizz or Hawks games against Orlando on Bally which I get practically for free because I work for a cable provider so…

This does nothing to solve the issues for local fans being able to watch their team....Bally sports bankruptcy still in limbo...

Blue_and_Whte wrote:I’m in Tennessee so I league pass it anyway…watch the Grizz or Hawks games against Orlando on Bally which I get practically for free because I work for a cable provider so…

What part of TN?

RookieStar wrote:Eerrrr... any of you guys just watch it via "links" wink wink

I have this friend who has an IPTV box that gives him 10000 or so channels for $100 a year.

This friend is fed up with being ripped off by TV, mobile, streaming and Wi-Fi providers. He has no issues whatsoever about cutting them out of his content viewing life.

jezzerinho wrote:

RookieStar wrote:Eerrrr... any of you guys just watch it via "links" wink wink

I have this friend who has an IPTV box that gives him 10000 or so channels for $100 a year.

This friend is fed up with being ripped off by TV, mobile, streaming and Wi-Fi providers. He has no issues whatsoever about cutting them out of his content viewing life.

Why not just get a VPN and visit those sites not banned in other countries? Its cheaper/free