{"id":8670,"date":"2021-10-27T13:11:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/sabc\/?p=8670"},"modified":"2021-10-27T13:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T13:11:23","slug":"media-statement-the-sabc-acquires-tv-broadcast-rights-for-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/media-statement-the-sabc-acquires-tv-broadcast-rights-for-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA STATEMENT | THE SABC ACQUIRES TV BROADCAST RIGHTS FOR THE NBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Johannesburg &#8211; Wednesday, 27 October 2021 <\/strong>\u2013 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabcsport.co.za\">SABC Sport<\/a> is pleased to announce an exciting multiyear television broadcast rights agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA).\u00a0 As part of the partnership, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabcsport.co.za\">SABC Sport<\/a> will air more than 35 games throughout the season, including a Christmas Day game, NBA All-Star Saturday Night, Conference Finals and The Finals, broadcast live or delayed, on SABC 1 and the SABC Sports Channel on the DTT, TelkomOne and Openview platforms.\u00a0 In addition, the SABC will host a weekly magazine show \u201cNBA Action\u201d, which covers the league\u2019s news and highlights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first live broadcast will kick off with a pre-game live studio presentation at 22:30 on Saturday, 30 October at 23:00 SAST, followed by the inaugural live broadcast of the 75<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Season, where the Washington Wizards will host the Boston Celtics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Due to the time difference between South Africa and the United States, the live or delayed broadcasts will start between 20h00 and midnight on the same Saturday on SABC 1 and the Sports Channel.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gary Rathbone, <a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/www.sabcsport.co.za\/sabcsport\/\">SABC Sport<\/a> General Manager stated: \u201c<a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/www.sabcsport.co.za\/sabcsport\/\">SABC Sport<\/a> is incredibly thrilled to add one of the world\u2019s most exciting and respected leagues to its live sports offering, as we know that there is a sports audience which loves the game of basketball in Mzansi. In bringing this great global sporting spectacle to our viewers, the SABC will also be setting out to inspire and entertain a whole new generation of basketball fans all over the country. Exciting times for Mzansi sports fans, Fo&#8217; Sho.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victor Williams, NBA Africa CEO said: \u201cWe are thrilled to once again partner with SABC, beginning with our milestone 75<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary Season.\u00a0 Through this partnership we look forward to bringing the excitement of the NBA to more of our passionate fans in South Africa as part of our continued commitment of making basketball more accessible across the continent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ends<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Follow SABC Sport on @sabcsport on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook for updates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Issued By:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Group Communications <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Enquiries: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Gugu Ntuli (Group Executive: Corporate Affairs and Marketing) <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T\"><strong>NtuliGM@sabc.co.za|T<\/strong><\/a><strong>. 011 714 3311|C. 071 877 0513<\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johannesburg &#8211; Wednesday, 27 October 2021 \u2013 The South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), through SABC Sport is pleased to announce an exciting multiyear television broadcast rights agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA).\u00a0 As part of the partnership, SABC Sport will air more than 35 games throughout the season, including a Christmas Day game, NBA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8918,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8671,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8670\/revisions\/8671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabc.co.za\/sabc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}