Thursday, November 30, 2006
NBA In Talks To Sell Stake In Its Digital Media Properties
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 12:00 PM
"So said NBA Commissioner David Stern at the Reuters Media Summit in New York today: it is exploring selling a stake in its digital assets, which include its cable TV network (NBA TV) and its website (NBA.com), to a media company, though he did not say with which companies. Time Warner owns a 2 percent stake in NBA TV, and the league has TV deals with Time Warner and Disney. “We are thinking about expanding the ownership base of our digital assets to include a media company. We anticipate a new deal will make both NBA TV and NBA.com more robust. We have made it clear that for us a discussion of all of our assets on a global scale is available.” In lay terms, it means they are still scouting...so for now, vaporware."
I used to be a huge NBA fan up until the New York Knicks began to suck so badly. Now all I do is just keep up with the scores. Anyways, whether it was a few years ago, or now, I often find myself away from a TV when I want to watch an NBA game. This news story happened to jog my memory about a question I have always had, and I figured I could ask it here. Why is it that games from the 4 major professional sports - basketball, baseball, football and hockey (in the US at least) - aren't broadcasted on the internet? Or perhaps they are and I just don't know where?
I used to be a huge NBA fan up until the New York Knicks began to suck so badly. Now all I do is just keep up with the scores. Anyways, whether it was a few years ago, or now, I often find myself away from a TV when I want to watch an NBA game. This news story happened to jog my memory about a question I have always had, and I figured I could ask it here. Why is it that games from the 4 major professional sports - basketball, baseball, football and hockey (in the US at least) - aren't broadcasted on the internet? Or perhaps they are and I just don't know where?
