NBA on TBS
| NBA on TBS | |
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| Also known as | 'America's Game America's SuperShootout' |
| Directed by | Tom Smith Skip Ellison Mark Goldsmith Michael Reardon, Jr. |
| Presented by | See commentators section below |
| Opening theme | "Higher Ground" by Run-DMC |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 16 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Don McGuire |
| Producer(s) | Rohan Backfisch Glenn Diamond Joel Westbrook Supervising producer: Bud Wendling |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 180 minutes (varies depending on game length) |
| Production company(s) | Turner Sports |
| Release | |
| Original network | TBS |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release | October 10, 1984 – May 13, 2002 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | NBA on TNT |
| External links | |
| Website | |
The NBA on TBS was a presentation of NBA regular season and playoff game telecasts that aired on the American cable and satellite network TBS. The games were produced by Turner Sports, the sports division of the Turner Broadcasting System subsidiary of Time Warner, TBS's corporate parent.
The network obtained rights to air NBA games beginning with the 1984-1985 season (replacing the ESPN and USA Network as the National Basketball Association's national cable partners) under a four-year contract, in which TBS shared the NBA television package along with CBS.
For many years beginning when the station assumed rights to the team's game telecasts in the late 1970s, WTBS (channel 17) in Atlanta – which served as the originating feed of the national TBS cable channel from December 1976 to October 2007 – aired some regular season games from the Atlanta Hawks (which was also owned by Ted Turner at the time), which also aired nationally on WTBS's superstation feed; TBS aired the games nationwide until the telecasts became subjected to NBA blackout restrictions within 35 miles of the home team's arena, resulting in many Hawks away games televised by the network being unavailable to cable providers within the designated market area of the opposing team (this restriction was dropped when TNT gained the right to be the exclusive broadcaster of any game that it chose to carry).
When it began to televise games from NBA teams other than the Hawks beginning with the 1984-85 season, TBS maintained a package of approximately 55 regular season NBA games annually on Tuesday and Friday nights. TBS also carried numerous NBA Playoff games as well as the NBA Draft from 1985-1989.
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