{"id":141795,"date":"2025-09-08T14:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141795\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:05:07","slug":"tnt-operates-final-nba-tv-broadcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141795\/","title":{"rendered":"TNT operates final NBA TV broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, the final remnants of TNT\u201ds stake in the previous NBA media rights deal, its partnership with NBA TV, came to a close with the broadcast of the 2025 Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony. But before signing off for a final time, Jared Greenberg and Steve Smith shared a message with the viewers to inform them of the importance of the broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>With TNT losing its rights to live NBA broadcast starting in the 2025-26 NBA season, TNT Sports CEO Luis Silberwasser informed employees back in June that<a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/league-networks\/tnt-sports-nba-tv-partnership-ends.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> their deal with NBA TV would end as of October 1<\/a>, despite Silberwasser relaying that they had made \u201cseveral proposals\u201d to keep operating the network.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, it seems as if both NBA TV and TNT opted to cut their partnership short several weeks earlier than the previously agreed-upon date. During NBA TV\u2019s pre-show coverage of the 2025 Hall of Fame enshrinement on Saturday night, Jared Greenberg and Steve Smith let the audience know that it would be the final TNT broadcast on NBA TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we get you set for the Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony, I want to take a moment here to mention that tonight is TNT Sports\u2019 last ever broadcast on NBA TV. It has been 17 glorious years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has Jared,\u201d added Smith. \u201cWe want to say thank you to everybody. It\u2019s been a great run.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NBA TV signs off for the final time \ud83e\udee1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z3W2qHpWqS\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Z3W2qHpWqS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Oh No He Didn\u2019t (@ohnohedidnt24) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ohnohedidnt24\/status\/1964464331023884800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 6, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This moment certainly serves as an incredibly bittersweet moment for fans of NBA TV. As Greenberg alluded to, Turner Sports has operated NBA TV since October 2008.<\/p>\n<p>And while it doesn\u2019t exactly make all that much sense for the NBA to have TNT continue to operate the NBA TV entity, given that the network no longer has league broadcast rights, a change in who operates the league network is <a href=\"https:\/\/awfulannouncing.com\/league-networks\/nba-tv-look-different-after-tnt-sports-split.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">expected to \u201clook a lot different\u201d<\/a> in 2025, which isn\u2019t always a positive thing. So it will certainly be interesting to see what changes do come from the new-look NBA TV moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, the final remnants of TNT\u201ds stake in the previous NBA media rights deal, its partnership with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[88455,355,88456,88457,99,88458],"class_list":{"0":"post-141795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-jared-greenberg","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-on-tnt","11":"tag-nba-tv","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-steve-smith-nba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}