12 Facts About NBA TV

NBA TV is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned by the National Basketball Association and operated by Warner Bros.

Network mainly launched with two purposes; to serve as a barker channel for the league's out-of-market sports package NBA TV League Pass, along with featuring statistical and scoring information which was more easily accessible in the pre-broadband age, and it featured mainly archival content from the NBA TV Entertainment archives in its upper pane to fill programming time.

NBA TV is not available to legacy Charter Communications customers using outdated billing plans, which carried the network as NBA.

NBA TV has been available to Charter households where available since February 2017, if a customer switches to the new 'Spectrum' billing plan which united Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks under the Spectrum branding .

NBA TV offers news programs devoted to basketball daily, in addition to programs showcasing the lives of individual basketball players, documentaries focusing on a particular NBA team during the season and archived broadcasts of well-known games.

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NBA TV carries at least 90 regular season games per season, which typically air four days a week during the NBA season, as well as some first-round playoff games.

Live games on NBA TV are subject to local blackout restrictions, since NBA TV does not hold the exclusive broadcast rights to any of its games.

Games carried by NBA TV are carried by each team's local rights holder, either a regional sports network or a broadcast television station.

NBA TV HD is a 1080i high-definition simulcast feed of NBA TV that is available on most providers.

NBA TV International is a feed of NBA TV available in countries outside the United States, utilizing the same studio for analysis and commentary segments and taped programming, but largely airs a different lineup of games than the U S channel.

On beIN Channels Network in the Arab world, NBA TV is not available, though beIN Sports NBA airs some of the same games.

NBA TV was criticized in the past for its first-round playoff coverage merely passing down the broadcast of a game from a regional sports network for national broadcast, amplifying the chosen team's broadcast and bias for said team to a national level.