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NBA Rejects Warner Bros Discovery Bid For Amazon; WNBA Renews Disney, Prime Video Deals & Links Up With NBCU – Update


Warner Brothers Discovery are out of the game with the NBA. The Adam Sliver-run league today rejected the David Zaslav-led media giant’s last ditch effort to keep some basketball rights for the 2024-2025 season. “Warner Bros. Discovery’s most recent proposal did not match the terms of Amazon Prime Video’s offer and, therefore, we have entered […]

The Adam Sliver-run league today rejected the David Zaslav-led media giant’s last ditch effort to keep some basketball rights for the 2024-2025 season. Even coming after the closing Stock Market bell today, that last line has to hurt as the now WBD -owned Turner Sports has carried NBA games for most of the past four decades. WBD’s exclusive negotiating window with the League ended in April with no agreement and although talks continued the NBA is said to have settled on three other partners, incumbent Disney/ESPN as well as NBCUniversal and Amazon Prime Video.

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