{"id":186781,"date":"2025-10-03T05:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186781\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T05:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T05:20:07","slug":"sky-sports-nets-nba-rights-deal-to-2036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/186781\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Sports nets NBA rights deal to 2036"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this season, Sky Sports will air over 100 live NBA games per season in the UK and Ireland. The deal follows NBCUniversal \u2013 which, like Sky, is owned by Comcast \u2013 acquiring extensive rights acr0ss North America to the top-flight US basketball league in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Live coverage on Sky Sports is underway with a number of pre-season games being show on Sky Sports Mix, and the official NBA 2025\/26 season will tip-off with a\u00a0 double-header on October 21st.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports will additionally show coverage of the WNBA starting with the 2026\/27 season.<\/p>\n<p>Sky Sports has previously aired NBA games, but for the last two seasons, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advanced-television.com\/2023\/10\/16\/tnt-sports-scores-nba-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">TNT Sports has held the UK broadcast rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Video will also stream a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advanced-television.com\/2025\/08\/15\/prime-video-unveils-inaugural-2025-26-nba-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">live NBA games<\/a> to UK audiences this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting this season, Sky Sports will air over 100 live NBA games per season in the UK and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-186781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}