Re: New Basketball Station

["Michael J.King Sr." <kingpin@primenet.com>]

At 06:56 AM 9/24/99 -0400, Dan Forant Sr wrote:
>24 hours coverage daily, on Direct TV, cost $150 for the season. Source CNN.

Here is a presser on the new addition:







03:10 PM ET 09/23/99

League launches television network

  League launches television network
            SECAUCUS, N.J. (AP) _ The NBA will soon be playing around the 
clock on a
  television screen near you.
            NBA.com TV, a 24-hour television network, will be launched Nov. 
2, the night
  the regular season opens.
            ``NBA.com TV represents the convergence of the Internet, 
television and
  basketball,'' commissioner David Stern said in a statement released by NBA
  Entertainment. ``By combining the immediacy and depth of information from
  NBA.com with current and historical television programming from the NBA,
  NBA.com TV will offer our fans complete, round-the-clock coverage of the
  league.''
            This will be the first time a sports league has created a full-time
  television network. Produced by NBA Entertainment, NBA.com TV will combine
  scores, news and statistics from the league's official Internet site, 
NBA.com,
  with live ``look-ins'' of games in progress, highlights, vintage NBA 
games and
  videos, as well as basketball-related talk shows and movies.
            ``We see this as an opportunity to tap into the rich array of 
information
  available on NBA.com and the vast television programming from NBAE's 
video and
  film library,'' Adam Silver, president of NBA Entertainment said. ``This is
  also an opportunity to produce and acquire new and original basketball-themed
  programming specifically for the network.''
            NBA.com TV will be available to more than 5.6 million homes 
through DIRECTV,
  the nation's largest direct broadcast satellite service, and in an additional
  one million homes with upgraded digital cable systems through Viewer's 
Choice.
  NBA.com TV will be provided at no additional charge to DIRECTV customers who
  subscribe to NBA LEAGUE PASS, Total Choice Platinum or Total Choice Gold.
            NBA LEAGUE PASS provides all games out of a viewer's immediate 
area.
                    Later.Mike