NBA Sued By Warner Bros Discovery As TV Rights Battle Goes To Next Level
deadline.comJust hours before the Opening Ceremony is set to kick off in Paris, David Zaslav wants to remind everyone that the Olympics are not the only game in town, as expected filing a lawsuit against the NBA over TV rights. “Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (“TBS”) and Warner Bros.
Discovery, Inc. (“WBD”) bring this action against the National Basketball Association (“NBA”) to enforce TBS’s contractual rights to distribute NBA games through the 2035-2036 season,” reads a heavily redacted suit filed Friday in New York state court by WBD and its Turner Sports subsidiary.
Seeking a court order to keep its NBA rights for the next decade off Prime Video while this all plays out, the move this morning by the Zaslav-led WBD comes two days after the league rejected the Burbank media giant’s reported $1.8 billion-per-year matching offer against Amazon.
In quick response, WBD proclaimed: “We think they have grossly misinterpreted our contractual rights with respect to the 2025-26 season and beyond, and we will take appropriate action.” Today, WBD took its shot.
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