New NBA Media Deal: 11 years, $77B with Disney (ABC/ESPN), Comcast (NBC/Peacock), and Amazon. ESPN to license Inside the NBA

[FAH1223]

Would he still call TWolves games

 

[In The Zone '98]

CASH!!!!!

 

[K-Apps]

Would he still call TWolves games

I would think so, Breen and Eagle have called Knicks and Nets for decades with their national work. Besides Kenny Albert, idk how Ian juggles Nets, NFL on TV and radio, CBB, and TNT (soon to be Amazon) every year.

 

[KillerPups]

ESPN prioritized F1 over the NBA this past Sunday, column sums up how inept ESPN is when it comes to the NBA

abc/espn marketing and coverage is an abomination. even their hockey stuff is better

 

[FakeNews]

Sans NBA lead-in, F1 Miami GP down big from record-high

After drafting off of an NBA Game 7 lead-in last year, the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix fell back to the pack this year.

www.sportsmediawatch.com

The Miami GP has aired on ABC in all four years of its existence, preempting the network’s usual NBA playoff coverage each time. The decision to air F1 over the NBA likely cost ABC around five or six million viewers; Lakers-Timberwolves Game 4 averaged 7.35 million in the same window a week earlier, and that figure would likely have been surpassed by Warriors-Rockets Game 7. Instead, that game aired on TNT and averaged 6.63 million.

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Congratulations to Grady. He’s great at his job

 

[tremonthustler1]

I would think so, Breen and Eagle have called Knicks and Nets for decades with their national work. Besides Kenny Albert, idk how Ian juggles Nets, NFL on TV and radio, CBB, and TNT (soon to be Amazon) every year.

Grady and Ros do some Liberty games together as well. He's gonna be one of those announcers who never takes much time off.

 

[FAH1223]

I was afraid they would do that smh, they could easily hire someone to do it who can invoke a similar feel and style. At least the family gets a good payout for that.

That's lame. They could've found someone who sounds similar to Fagan to do the voice over.

Why would they do that when the literally can get the exact voice from previous productions that they own to do it?

"Invoke a similar feel and style"


Vs the exact feel and style through AI

Because it’s not him, it’s only his voice through AI. I enjoyed hearing Jim Fagan’s voice on the NBA on NBC back in the 90s, but this wasn’t the nostalgia play needed. AI has we have seen in numerous ways is a dangerous and/or cheap way companies use. Mitch Phillips did some VO work on the NBA on NBC, he easily could’ve been used for this instead of AI Jim Fagan.

 

[FAH1223]

@K-Apps how is Jim Fagan AI going to do promos like this

The emotion in the voice

 

[mastermind]

That sucks

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Almost 22 million people watched the Kentucky Derby?

It's one of the most bet on events of the year.... Plus, celebrities are out there promoting it on their socials and attending the event where they "dress to impress" or whatever the fukk they want to call it.

 

[tremonthustler1]

That sucks

NBC is doing what a lot of idiots wanted, which is to seemingly put us in a time warp.

Bet money that if it's anyone other that Prudential sponsoring the halftime report, someone's gonna point it out and bytch about it.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Nostalgia gets people to tune in once. Or for a few weeks. People aren't going to watch just because of a theme or graphics etc.

 

[FAH1223]

NBC is doing what a lot of idiots wanted, which is to seemingly put us in a time warp.

Bet money that if it's anyone other that Prudential sponsoring the halftime report, someone's gonna point it out and bytch about it.

I’m surprised no one has said to use another Tesh song for starting lineups

 

[FAH1223]