NBA extends TV deals with ESPN/ABC, TNT
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The NBA announced extensions of its television contracts with ESPN/ABC and TNT on Wednesday, deals that will include rights for digital media content.
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The NFL agreed Monday to contract extensions with Fox and CBS to televise Sunday afternoon games for six more years, deals worth a combined &#36;8 billion.
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The contract of Patriots coach Bill Belichick remains one of the more closely guarded secrets in the NFL, but ESPN.com reported yesterday that Belichick recently signed an extension through at least the 2013 season.
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TODAY'S EVENTS TV RADIO  Men's College Basketball  2 p.m. Morehouse at Tuskegee ESPNU  4 p.m. Villanova at Marquette ESPN  4 p.m. Alabama A&M at Southern ESPNU  6 p.m. Kansas at Kansas State ESPN  6 p.m.
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Point guard Tony Parker agreed to a long-term contract extension with the San Antonio Spurs on Monday night. Terms of the deal were not released.
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ESPN and TNT will start the N.B.A. season with a slew of new digital rights that will, among other things, let them stream their games live on their broadband outlets.
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The NBA extended its  national TV package with ESPN/ABC and TNT on Wednesday,  including a bevy of new-media rights in one of the clearest  signs yet of the growing power of digital media in the sports  world.
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ABC and ESPN have increased the price of commercials and sold a sponsorship to American Express Co. for their NBA Christmas doubleheader, which will highlight the league&#39;s most prominent feud and biggest brawl.
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The National Basketball Association announced a deal with the video-sharing site to create an authorized N.B.A. channel and sanction fansâ uploads.
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The National Basketball Association said on Wednesday it has reached eight-year agreements to let Walt Disney Co.'s ABC and ESPN television networks and Time Warner Inc.'s TNT broadcast league games through 2016.
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Electronic Arts, hoping to shore up its eroding dominance in the sports video game market, signed a deal giving it the exclusive right to use the ESPN brand in games.
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Electronic Arts Inc. has signed a 15-year agreement giving it the exclusive right to use the sports channel ESPN brand in its video games.
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The much-heralded Christmas Day matchup between Kobe Bryant&#39;s Los Angeles Lakers and Shaquille O&#39;Neal&#39;s Miami Heat was the highest-rated regular season basketball game on television in nearly seven years, broadcaster ABC said on
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The deal was announced by the team Thursday, about 12 hours after the worst opening-night loss in Nets&#39; history, 100-77 to Shaquille O&#39;Neal and the Miami Heat.
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NBA Europe Live, the National Basketball Association initiative in concert with Euroleague, tips off in five nations next week, but the prospect of NBA expansion to Europe remains distant.
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By Michael Hiestand  Tonight, ESPN has an opportunity: show that TV sports can deal with real-life epics.  ESPN lavishes Super Bowl-like pregame shows on all its Monday night NFL games this season.
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The National Football League on Monday said it will extend broadcast rights for television networks CBS and FOX to air Sunday afternoon football games through 2011 in deals worth a combined &#36;8 billion.