{"id":127921,"date":"2025-09-08T03:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127921\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T03:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T03:26:07","slug":"nbc-taps-nfl-kickoff-to-spotlight-new-nba-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127921\/","title":{"rendered":"NBC Taps NFL Kickoff to Spotlight New NBA Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0847663\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a> hopes to score a marketing touchdown as it launches the first weekend of \u201cSunday Night Football.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet NBC\u2019s goal isn\u2019t necessarily to call attention to the NFL, which started its 2025-26 season in earnest in recent days. During Sunday night\u2019s match-up between the <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0290626\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Ravens<\/a> and the Buffalo Bills, NBC revealed a new promo touting its coming coverage of the NBA, which bounces up in late October as part of a new 11-year rights deal struck between the basketball league and <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0195910\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBCUniversal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the promo, three members of the NBA champion <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0411069\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> are stunned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBC hopes to score a marketing touchdown as it launches the first weekend of \u201cSunday Night Football.\u201d Yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[12374,36234,49,48,361,9559,1336,9713,337,459,44,82,803,1788,348],"class_list":["post-127921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-nba","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}