NBC is near an accord with the league to pay an average of $2.5B a year to show around 100 games per season, people familiar with the talks said. Amazon’s $1.8B-a-year package would include regular-season and playoff games, the report noted. Disney would retain an NBA package and would continue to air the NBA Finals, with payments averaging about $2.6B a year, according to the sources. Discovery (WBD) still has a right to match a rival package and “the league could always carve out a new package for the company in the final stretch, but its options are limited,” the report added. Published first on TheFly – the ultimate source for real-time, market-moving breaking financial news.

Source: Wall Street Journal June 06, 2024 15:00 UTC