
2014/2015 NBL television broadcast schedule?
I think NBL will do all that they can to get it on FTA. Nick MArvin has already said that the NBL expects all/most NBL games to be shown live on Free to air next year.

The NBL is a great product but needs to do a better job of selling itself. TV stations want rating pullers. The NBL needs to demonstrate it IS a ratings puller. (Alternatively they need to find businesses who will sponsor the TV coverage in the hope that the improved TV coverage this causes will generate more direct sponsors to the various teams.) If TEN don't see the value in NBL as great reality TV, sports entertainment, local content etc with minimal cost involved in covering then maybe Nine or 7 will.
But nothing will get TV coverage unless it makes good business sense. We need the NBL to be seen as valuable enough that we can auction the TV rights like AFL have done.

Ten and BA renegotiated a couple of years back. BA allowed Ten to show fewer games, in exchange for a better timeslot on the Friday night and the live game on Ten on Sundays (as opposed to the games being at 10.30pm on ONE).

Yeah that was true originally Luke but then One decided they aren't a sports channel anymore and relegated the NBL to this current format.


I have tweeted the NBL a while ago but got no reply. Just by looking at the schedule you can guess what two games will be shown in round one. The Friday night game will most likely be Perth vs NZ. The Sunday game will be Melbourne vs Cairns
