NBA TV to be Run By Outside Media Partner. Employees Being Bought Out

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NBA TV to be Run By Outside Media Partner. Employees Being Bought Out
FanHouse found this 8/19/2007 on www.bizofbasketball.com [flag]
NBA TV , the 24-hour basketball-only network started in 1999, is about to be run by an unidentified media partner, and with that, the National Basketball Association is offering to buyout the 68 full-time employees of the network based on service time in preparation for the take over. As reported by Bloomberg News : The NBA's entertainment division offered producers buyouts "in preparation ... [link]

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NBA TV to be Run By Outside Media Partner. Employees Being Bought Out

Maury posted 8/19/2007 from www.bizofbasketball.com

NBA TV, the 24-hour basketball-only network started in 1999, is about to be run by an unidetified media partner, and with that, the National Basketball Association is offering to buyout the 68 full-time employees of the network based on service time in preparation for the take over.
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kcudah posted 8/19/2007 from sports.aol.com

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
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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 ...