Warner Bros. Discovery and TNT Sports Run Out Clock on NBA TV

New memo indicates a mutual end to 16-year partnership amid changes in the broadcaster's NBA and media rights game plan

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Warner Bros. Discovery, TNT Sports, and the NBA have cut the cord on their NBA TV partnership.

TNT Sports has produced content for NBA TV since its launch as the first league television network back in 2008. However, last year, the NBA reached a new 11-year, roughly $76 billion media rights deal, which awarded its broadcast rights to Amazon, ESPN, and NBCUniversal.

Though the NBA and WBD reached an agreement to continue producing its Inside the NBA and other content for ESPN—as well as digital NBA content through Bleacher Report and House of Highlights—an internal memo obtained by Front Office Sports from TNT Sports CEO Luis Silberwasser indicates that TNT Sports and the NBA “mutually decided to part ways” from the NBA TV collaboration.

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Jason Notte

Jason Notte was a staff writer at ADWEEK.