{"id":270408,"date":"2025-11-08T06:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270408\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T06:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T06:03:10","slug":"nba-delivers-most-viewers-in-15-years-through-first-2-weeks-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270408\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA delivers most viewers in 15 years through first 2 weeks of season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1899126\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-2242621470.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3621\" height=\"2037\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The first two weeks of the 2025-26 NBA season have delivered the most viewers in 15 years, with viewership up 92% year-over-year for nationally televised games, the league announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">National NBA games are averaging the most viewers in 15 years through the first two weeks of the season, up 92% year-over-year.<\/p>\n<p>(Excludes 2011-12 season, which began on Christmas Day.) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y0xL43ptZu\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/y0xL43ptZu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA Communications (@NBAPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAPR\/status\/1986849154677789066?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the start of the season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nba-unveils-tap-to-watch-2025-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA launched \u201cTap to Watch,\u201d<\/a> a new digital initiative that simplifies how fans find and access live NBA game telecasts. Tap to Watch leverages the NBA\u2019s vast digital ecosystem to seamlessly direct fans to live NBA games from league, team and a range of popular third-party digital platforms, including all national games on ABC\/ESPN, NBC\/Peacock, and Prime Video, as well as nearly all local games.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The new \u201cTap to Watch\u201d digital initiative simplifies how fans find and access live NBA game telecasts, starting with the 2025-26 season. Tap to Watch will leverage the NBA\u2019s vast digital ecosystem to seamlessly direct fans to live NBA games from league, team and a range of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QxYzBLa79U\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QxYzBLa79U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1979228573333422150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to the NBA App, NBA.com and team apps and websites, Tap to Watch provides access to game telecasts through national and local media partners and via other NBA partners such as Google, Meta, X, Snap, Reddit, Roku, Dapper Labs and more. Further integrations with FanDuel, Fanatics and Yahoo Sports, as well as other digital and connected TV partners, will roll out during the season.<\/p>\n<p>The 2025-26 schedule of national TV games generally features Mondays on Peacock, Tuesdays on NBC\/Peacock, Wednesdays on ESPN\/ESPN App, Saturdays on Prime Video in the afternoon and ABC\/ESPN App at night, and Sundays on ABC\/ESPN App in the afternoon and NBC\/Peacock at night.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2025-26 NBA Season Watch Guide \ud83d\udcfa\u270d\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Through the NBA\u2019s partnership renewal with Disney and new agreements with NBCUniversal and Amazon, the 2025-26 schedule of national games will generally feature Mondays on Peacock, Tuesdays on NBC\/Peacock, Wednesdays on ESPN\/ESPN App,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4KVpP76Vtq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/4KVpP76Vtq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1956076635305673110?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 14, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first two weeks of the 2025-26 NBA season have delivered the most viewers in 15 years, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,157346,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-270408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-nba-viewership","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270408","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=270408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}