As announced on Friday, Aug. 10, the 2018-19 NBA regular season will commence on Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2018 and runs through to Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2019. Among the league’s national broadcast partners, the NBA’s own network NBA-TV leads with carriage of 107 games. ESPN is scheduled for 84 games, mostly with coverage on Wednesday and […]
The 12-day, 82-game schedule for MGM Resorts NBA Summer League 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada, featuring all 30 NBA teams for the first time, tips off with 10 games on Friday, July 6 and continues through Tuesday, July 17 at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion on the campus of the University of […]
Basketball superstar LeBron James made another big impression upon the sports world on Sunday night as it was announced he would join the Los Angeles Lakers in a four-year contract, beginning this fall. Cable sports network NBA TV contacted Turner Sports NBA analyst Charles Barkley for his reaction and analysis on the LeBron news, but […]
ESPN’s coverage of the 2018 WNBA season will tip off Sunday, May 20, at 5 p.m. ET on ESPN2 when the defending champion Minnesota Lynx — led by Maya Moore – host the 2016 WNBA champions Los Angeles Sparks and 2016 WNBA Finals MVP Candace Parker in a rematch of last year’s Finals. ESPN’s slate […]
The 2018 NBA Playoffs have arrived! Starting April 14, sixteen teams — eight from each the Eastern and Western conferences — will begin their route for the NBA championship and the coveted Larry O’Brien trophy, to be rewarded in June. While most observers predict a Golden State Warriors-Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Finals for the fourth consecutive […]
The 2017-18 NBA regular season approaches its conclusion on Apr. 11, and (as of Mar. 31) nine out of the 16 playoff spots are still up for grabs. Of the teams already having clinched a postseason berth (as of Mar. 31): Houston Rockets, Golden State Warriors, Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Philadelphia 76ers, Indiana […]
Several NBA highlight games for the month of February: NBA Sunday Showcase on ABC will return on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 4, when the Oklahoma City Thunder and Russell Westbrook host the Los Angeles Lakers and Lonzo Ball, who will be making his first ABC appearance. The schedule includes an Eastern Conference showdown between the […]
The series premiere telecast of Black Lightning helped netlet CW to be the third-ranked broadcast network among adults 18-34 for Tuesday night with a 0.6 rating/3 share, above ABC and a rerun-filled CBS (0.5 rating/2 share each). What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s broadcast network telecasts on Tuesday, […]
What follows are the Live + Same Day rating results for the night’s selected cable telecasts on Tuesday, January 9 (with the night’s cable ranks according to total viewers and adults 18-49 in parentheses): Intervention: Heroin Triangle (A&E, 9:00 PM, 60 min.) – 0.651 million viewers (#61) – 0.26 A18-49 (#44) Undercover High (A&E, 10:00 […]
