ESPN extend Foxtel/Kayo relationship
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Surprised ESPN didn’t go full Disney+
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Extended reveal of the NBA’s opening week schedule on ESPN… and slightly more.
October 23: 10am Knicks vs. Cavaliers, 12:30pm Mavericks vs. Spurs
October 24: 10:30am Pacers vs. Thunder, 1pm Nuggets vs. Warriors
October 28: 10am Pistons vs. Cavaliers*, 12:30pm Timberwolves vs. Nuggets*
MLK Day (January 20): 5am Hawks vs. Bucks*, 6:30am Cavaliers vs. Thunder, 9am Knicks vs. Mavericks, 12pm Pistons vs. Celtics (Conflict with CFP National Championship)
*Matchups exclusive to Peacock and carriage on linear/Kayo/D+ may vary
Full regular season schedule will be released early Friday morning.
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What impact is the US broadcaster?
New deal with Fetch TV now confirmed.
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We’ve seen with even ESPN-produced events that AU/NZ’s linear only selects whatever is on U.S. linear (but avoiding ESPNU for better or worse) and not the ones on ESPN+/ESPN3.
If that is the standards they have for even what they broadcast, I don’t have high hopes that Peacock games will be televised on linear. Happy to be proven wrong though.
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Complete NBA schedule is now available. Times below are in Eastern.
ESPN will presumably carry most non-Amazon games (not all of them because it depends on which league is prioritized on a given day).
Source: @sportswithben1/X
Oh, and say hello to your new college football graphics.
https://x.com/TVSportsUpdates/status/1956145590305202593
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3 posts were merged into an existing topic: US Television
Then probably belongs in a different thread?
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Yes - I’m not sure how I could make it clearer than I did 3 weeks ago but maybe a new thread name will help.
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Well, I was clear about the rules but don’t know which thread the U.S. (or more broadly, international) operation should go.
As a result, I thank you for splitting up and apologize for off-topic cluttering. I have clear indications to post going forward, and would like to request a reversal of thread name to just ESPN.
Although I do think the MLB rights thing is very relevant to all ESPN viewers worldwide, because from next season, they will no longer produce games.
Wouldn’t the ESPN international stuff also fit in International Sports Rights thread as well.
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It depends, quite frankly.
If it has been a transfer of rights from a regional sports network to a team-owned local streamer, it fits that thread and has no place here.
If it is a transfer between two national broadcasters that does not have global rights (we’re not talking Apple/Netflix/Amazon etc.), then it should be here because it does impact sourcing of the feeds.
Or does it really matter and we’re just happy to watch games at all?
PM me if we are to continue this conversation. Let’s return back to the main topic the thread is for.
Sometimes it doesn’t have to go anywhere 
(That’s not directed at you btw, but there’s a lot of posts on this forum just linking to news stories that are unlikely to generate discussion or irrelevant to the user base).
Agreed, but again I’d be wary of how much Australians (largely) need to know about regional sports rights being transferred around in America.
All I’ll say to finish is - Remember the audience you’re posting and discussing with. It’s not Americans.
None, and nor do I. It’s only a scenario I make up to explain the difference. I will just call it the “local feed” anyway.
I otherwise agree completely with your statement.
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Disney+ will carry all US Open coverage in New Zealand.
If there’s an occasion ESPN could have set up a breakout signal to air it on linear, it could be this one.
US Open was on ESPN AUNZ from 2015-21 before moving to Stan
Which was the reason I wrote a “breakout signal” (for NZ only) and not simply “on linear”. ESPN has the rights in NZ from this year.
Unless they simply cannot split anymore. That means on TV, there will be more NCAA football than Grand Slam action, and I can bet which is more relevant to the AU/NZ audience.
ESPN was only showing the FIBA Asia Cup in Australia a week ago as TVNZ had the rights in New Zealand (which they inherited from Spark).
So it can be done.
Apropos of that I believe the Asia Cup was the last event in those current FIBA deals, new deal still up in the air. DAZN is involved in global distribution with its investment in FIBA Media but that hasn’t seemed to get them much in Europe, with deals going mostly to FTA broadcasters over there.