Huge Shake-up at NBA TV

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kcudah kcudah posted 8/19/2007 from sports.aol.com [flag]
NBA Media Watch Bloomberg reports the NBA has offered 68 full-time employees of its NBA TV premium cable channel buy-outs, and will turn the channel over to a new operator in the coming months. (Via The Biz of Basketball .) No word on who the new operator will be. NBA TV seems to be well-liked by most fans, and the combination of live games, classics, and studio programming [link]

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John Dempsey of Variety reports that Time Warner is the "frontrunner" to take over the operations of NBA TV. This comes in the wake of reports that NBA TV is offering buy-outs to sixty-eight of its employees, in anticipation of turning " the channel over to a new operator in the coming months ." The news certainly is not out of the blue; the league has been considering " ...

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