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

[FAH1223]

Vince has been at TNT/NBA TV the last couple years. He was at ESPN before that.

Has been calling Hawks and Nets games locally.

 

[Jplaya2023]

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.

You know i am. I better see hannah storm and pete vecseys old ass with dr j doing the half time report or I'm pitching a fit. I better wake up at 11am saturday with a bowl of captain crunch watching ahmad rashad and his "main man" doing nba inside stuff

 

[2legit]

You know i am. I better see hannah storm and pete vecseys old ass with dr j doing the half time report or I'm pitching a fit. I better wake up at 11am saturday with a bowl of captain crunch watching ahmad rashad and his "main man" doing nba inside stuff

Whats Bob Costas old ass up to these days? I know he got enough free time to do games

 

[krazykid18]

Vince has been at TNT/NBA TV the last couple years. He was at ESPN before that.

Has been calling Hawks and Nets games locally.

He sucks, and keeps getting jobs

 

[FAH1223]

Whats Bob Costas old ass up to these days? I know he got enough free time to do games

MLB Network.

He works for Warner Brothers Discovery. He was calling games on TBS the last couple years. So he's a pundit on CNN and he has a show on HBO.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[FAH1223]

 

[MustafaSTL]

Special contributor could mean he is giving NBC the green light to use his likeness via AI... like that Gatorade commercial campaign he was "in" recently



His voice is probably synthetic in this too.

If they put out a big announcement, I’m sure he’s gonna have some face time. Makes no sense to hype up Jordan being part of the show only to use some AI voice. If that was the case just use the voice and don’t do this hype up announcement.

 

[GoldenGlove]

If they put out a big announcement, I’m sure he’s gonna have some face time. Makes no sense to hype up Jordan being part of the show only to use some AI voice. If that was the case just use the voice and don’t do this hype up announcement.

lol

Don't underestimate what companies will say and announce for the sake of momentum and positive PR for their shareholders

 

[MustafaSTL]

lol

Don't underestimate what companies will say and announce for the sake of momentum and positive PR for their shareholders

It would be a bad look for hyping up Jordan being part of the team only to use some AI voice. Everyone would clown them and it would not be worth the initial one day excitement people had after the announcement. I’m not saying he’s about to be a full Shaq, Kenny, Charles studio analyst, but I’m quite sure it’s more than him just allowing the use of his name, image, and likeness.

 

[FAH1223]

 

[Wargames]

For all the money coming in the league it’s really surprising how damn near every teams salary cap is fukked up and it’s affecting their roster.

 

[FAH1223]

@K-Apps

For all the money coming in the league it’s really surprising how damn near every teams salary cap is fukked up and it’s affecting their roster.

Not my Wizards

 

[FAH1223]

 

[EzekelRAGE]

I dont think that chart is accurate in the point you trying to prove(shyt on Zaslav), WBD wasnt even a thing 5 years ago, so why would shyt that happened 5 years ago be on Zaslav? When a company merges/buys another there is usually a stock part of that deal. D bought WB in aug 22 and the stock was $13. That's what the $9 should be compared too.

The stock stuff is probably why the price went down the prior months. When mergers get talked about it affects the stock price, then when the merger happens extra gets made too. If I have company A has 100 stock at $10 a piece($1000) and they buy company B. The board may issue stock holders of company A an extra 100 stocks, but still say it's worth only $1000, so now that stock price is $5.

Under terms of the agreement, which was structured as a Reverse Morris Trust transaction, at close AT&T received $40.4 billion in cash and WarnerMedia’s retention of certain debt. Additionally, shareholders of AT&T received 0.241917 shares of WBD for each share of AT&T common stock they held at close. As a result, AT&T shareholders received 1.7 billion shares of WBD, representing 71% of WBD shares on a fully diluted basis. Discovery’s existing shareholders own the remainder of the new company. In addition to their new shares of WBD common stock, AT&T shareholders continue to hold the same number of shares of AT&T common stock they held immediately prior to close.