Warner Bros. Discovery, NBA Settle Legal Fight Over TV Rights
variety.comBrian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Warner Bros. Discovery will stay on the court with the NBA in a new settlement that gives the media company a chance to keep professional basketball in its overall lineup, even as it cedes U.S.
rights to traditional TV games to rivals. The media company and the basketball league have devised a new pact that will give Warner Bros.
Discovery rights to show NBA content on its Bleacher Report and House of Highlights outlets and to distribute games overseas in places such as Northern Europe and parts of Latin America, excluding Brazil and Mexico, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The new pact, which comes with an 11-year term, ends a Warner suit against the NBA that started after the league elected to cut Warner out of the structure of its next TV deal, which it has set with Disney’s ESPN as well as Amazon and NBCUniversal.
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