National Basketball Association Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Media coverage== {{Main|National Basketball Association on television}} {{See also|List of current NBA broadcasters}} [[File:Reggie Miller TNT.jpg|thumb|An ''[[NBA on TNT]]'' broadcast crew during a December 2008 game]] As one of the major sports leagues in North America, the NBA has a long history of partnerships with television networks in the United States. The NBA signed a contract with [[DuMont Television Network]] in its eighth season, the [[1953-54 NBA season|1953β54 season]], marking the first year the NBA had a national television broadcaster. Similar to the [[National Football League]], the lack of television stations led to [[NBC]] taking over the rights from the [[1954-55 NBA season|1954β55 season]] until April 7, 1962βNBC's first tenure with the NBA. Currently in the U.S., the NBA has a contract with [[ESPN]] (and [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]) and [[TNT (U.S. TV network)|TNT]] through the 2024β25 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/leonardarmato/2023/10/23/nba-new-tv-deal-could-include-espn-tnt-amazon-and-apple/|title=NBA New TV Deal Could Include ESPN, TNT, Amazon and Apple|last=Armato|first=Leonard|date=October 23, 2023|website=[[Forbes]]|access-date=December 6, 2023}}</ref> Games that are not broadcast nationally are usually aired over [[regional sports network]]s specific to the area where the teams are located. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page