NBA on ABC - Citizendia

NBA on ABC

Format	Sports
Starring	Mike Breen Mark Jackson Jeff Van Gundy Michele Tafoya
Country of origin	United States
Production
Running time	150 minutes+ Subject to change
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC (1962-1973, 2002–)
Original airing	December 25, 2002

ABC's Coverage of the NBA, known as NBA Sunday on ABC since 2007, is a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the American Broadcasting Company television network in the United States, replacing the NBA on NBC. Sport is an Activity that is governed by a set of rules or Customs and often engaged in competitively Mike Breen (born May 22, 1961) is a Play-by-play commentator for the NBA on ABC and the lead commentator for New York Knicks Mark A Jackson (born April 1 1965 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American professional Basketball player who played Jeff Van Gundy (born January 19 1962 in Hemet California) is an American Basketball Head coach, most recently with the Michele Tafoya (Vandersall (born December 17, 1964, in Manhattan Beach California) is an American television Sportscaster. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. Events 274 - Roman Emperor Aurelian The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season of the National Basketball Association. The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. A television network is a distribution network for Television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many Television stations The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from NBA Sunday typically airs on afternoons at 1:00 p. m. or 3:30 p. m. ET. The Eastern Time Zone ( ET) of the Western Hemisphere falls mostly along the east coast of North America and the west coast of South America During the NBA Finals, ABC presents games in prime time, mostly at 9:00 p. The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association and the conclusion of the sport's postseason each June Prime Time is the major News analysis current affairs and Politics programme broadcast on Radio Telefís Éireann in Ireland m. ET. Since its return to ABC in 2002, the show has been produced by sister network ESPN, and since 2006 has transferred all of its operations to ESPN. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to Since then, it has been an ESPN program, and only has been identified as ABC's coverage of the NBA on ESPN. The program is sponsored by Hertz. The hertz (symbol Hz) is a measure of Frequency, informally defined as the number of events occurring per Second. This is the second time NBA games have aired on ABC; from 1962 to 1973, ABC was the main carrier of the NBA. The 1962–63 NBA season was the 17th season of the National Basketball Association. The 1972–73 NBA season was the 27th season of the National Basketball Association.

It was announced on June 27, 2007 that the NBA on ABC had been renewed through the 2015-2016 season. Events 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ^[1]

Backstory

For more details on the NBA's move from NBC to ABC, see NBA on NBC#The end of the NBA on NBC. The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from

In late 2001, the National Basketball Association was in the midst of putting together a new television deal. The year 2001 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2001. At the time, conventional wisdom was that NBC would renew its deal with the NBA and continue airing games. An article by the Sports Business Daily circa October 5, 2001, cited Richard Sandomir of the New York Times as saying:

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[it would be] difficult to imagine the NBA being so overwhelmed by an ESPN offer that it would let [ESPN] team up for a broadcast deal with ABC that would yield fewer games, promotion and exposure. Events 869 - The Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened to decide about what to do about Patriarch Photius of Constantinople Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar.

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The negotiations were closely watched by those in the business world, as it was the first time a league crafted a television deal in the new economic environment since 9/11. Declining television ratings on NBC had already led many to believe that the NBA's next television rights fee would be lower than previous years, and the economic recession made that a likely scenario. Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the Audience size and composition of television The Early 2000s Recession was felt in mostly Western countries affecting the European Union mostly during 2000 and 2001 and the United States mostly in As predicted, NBC's offer to the league was lower than the previous agreement's amount. Had the NBA agreed to the network's offer, it would have been the first sports league to undergo a decline in rights fees. The NBA rejected NBC's offer and after the network's exclusive negotiating period with the league expired, ABC and ESPN stepped in. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to On January 22, 2002, the NBA signed a six-year deal with the Walt Disney Company and (then) AOL Time Warner, which resulted in ABC, ESPN, and TNT acquiring the rights to air league games. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. The year 2002 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2002. Time Warner Inc ( is the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, headquartered in New York City. Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned ABC and ESPN will reportedly pay an average of about $400 million a season. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been Technically, ESPN pays the NBA for its broadcast rights and "buys" time on ABC to air select games. In all, the contract allowed the NBA to increase its rights fees by 25 percent.

On the deal, NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol had this to say:

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The definition of winning has become distorted. Duncan "Dick" Ebersol (born July 28, 1947 in Torrington Connecticut) is an American radio and TV manager If winning the rights to a property brings with it hundreds of millions of dollars in losses, what have you won? When faced with the prospect of heavy financial losses, we have consistently walked away and have done so again. . . . We wish the NBA all the best. We have really enjoyed working with them for more than a decade to build the NBA brand. ^[2]

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Coverage

Overview

ABC's NBA logo from 2002 to 2006.

In its first five years of covering the NBA, ABC has had three lead play-by-play announcers, six lead announcing teams, an anticipated six theme songs, five graphics packages, five pregame shows, six sets of studio teams, and the lowest Nielsen ratings the NBA has ever seen. Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the Audience size and composition of television Each season, ABC begins their NBA coverage with a Christmas Day doubleheader (with the exception of 2004 and 2006, when they broadcast only one game). For three years (2004-2006) ABC insisted on having a Christmas Day game between the Miami Heat and the Los Angeles Lakers. The Miami Heat (often referred to simply as the Heat, including in some official team publications with HEAT in all capital letters are a professional Basketball The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. Following this, Sunday afternoon coverage begins in mid-January or early February. The number of Sunday afternoon regular season games that ABC normally covers is significantly lower than its predecessor NBC. The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from In its first season of coverage, ABC aired 14 regular season games, in comparison to NBC's yearly average of 33 games. That number increased to 18 games in the next two seasons, and 20 games in the 2005-2006 season. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. For 2006-07, ABC decreased the number of games it aired, offering 19. The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. When asked by Jim Rome in 2002 about the number of games on ABC, NBA commissioner David Stern made this comment:

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Cable and satellite (programming is) increasingly available to everybody who wants it. Jim Rome (born James Phillip Rome October 14, 1953) is an David Joel Stern (born on September 22, 1942 in New York City, New York) is the current commissioner of the National Basketball Association On ABC, you're going to see us on as many or more Sundays during the regular season as NBC is now, but fewer triple-headers and double-headers, and frankly, we think that the triple-headers and double-headers, which we favored in the past, don't work. It's too hard to get people to sit through six and eight-and-a-half hours of NBA on (TV), and it's good to be on cable during the week because that's where our fans are looking for our games^[3]

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By contrast to Stern's assessment, the media and many fans found that the cable-heavy TV deal made many games unavailable and, in addition, devalued the league. Starting with the second round of the playoffs, TNT's NBA coverage becomes exclusive, meaning that no local broadcasts can compete. Because of this, fans of teams in the playoffs without cable are unable to watch many playoff games unless they have satellite TV. Also, ABC's coverage is always exclusive, including in the regular season. If a game is on the air opposite an ABC televised game, it cannot be televised locally. This results in some games not being aired on television at all. The Sports Business Daily quoted Houston Chronicle writer Jonathan Feigen as saying:

ABC's NBA Playoffs transitional graphic, used in 2003 and used in ESPN's NBA coverage until 2006-2007. The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily Newspaper in Texas, USA.

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[the NBA] seemed to marginalize the product, treating their sport as small and their playoffs as no more important than one of 162 Atlanta Braves games.

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In addition, unlike NBC or NBC's predecessor CBS, ABC doesn't televise the NBA All-Star Game (instead, going to TNT). The NBA on CBS was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on CBS Sports. The National Basketball Association staged its first All-Star Game in the Boston Garden on March 2, 1951. Turner Network Television, usually referred to as TNT, is an American cable TV network created by media mogul Ted Turner and currently owned Also unlike the other networks, ABC rarely televises either of the NBA's Conference Finals series. Each year, TNT will air one Conference Final exclusively (the Western Conference Finals in 2003, 2004, and 2006, and the Eastern Conference Finals in 2005 and 2007), while ESPN will get the other. The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season of the National Basketball Association. The 2003–04 NBA season was the 58th season of the National Basketball Association. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. With the exception of 2004 (where they aired no Conference Final games at all), ABC airs only two of ESPN's Conference Final telecasts (Games 1 and 3 in 2003, Games 1 and 4 in 2005, and Game 4 in 2006) each year. The network was scheduled to air Game 7 of the 2006 Eastern Conference Finals but did not because the Miami Heat won the series in six games. The Miami Heat (often referred to simply as the Heat, including in some official team publications with HEAT in all capital letters are a professional Basketball

Outside of the Conference Finals, ABC generally airs playoff games throughout the first five weeks of the NBA Playoffs, in addition to a number of special primetime playoff games, usually televised on Thursday or Saturday nights. In 2005, ABC aired the first non-cable Memorial Day game in three years, when the Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs battled in Game 4 of the Western Conference Finals. Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (on May in) The Phoenix Suns are a professional Basketball team based in Phoenix Arizona. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. Prior to the most recent NBA TV deal, Memorial Day playoff games had become a yearly tradition on network TV.

Unlike previous broadcast partners, ABC has never aired a non-Christmas regular season game after 3:30 p. m. ET. While NBC had several 5:30 p. m. start times for games, ABC has only gone beyond that time on Christmas, and for select playoff games. On March 20, 2005, ABC aired a pair of games regionally (San Antonio Spurs-Detroit Pistons and Phoenix Suns-Memphis Grizzlies) at 3:30 p. Events 1600 - The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area The Phoenix Suns are a professional Basketball team based in Phoenix Arizona. The Memphis Grizzlies are a professional Basketball team based in Memphis Tennessee. m. When the Spurs-Pistons game ended, the network did not switch the audience to the Suns-Grizzlies game (which was 94-91 late in the fourth quarter). Instead, viewers were sent to their local news. NBC rarely committed this practice, instead sending viewers of the completed game to view the end of the one still in progress.

Graphics

Screenshot of ABC's bottomline scoreboard, used for the majority of the 2005-06 NBA season. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association.

In its first year of coverage, ABC used the exact same graphics as partner ESPN; only the "score bug" was different. This habit had already been put into practice by the network in regards to their NHL and college basketball coverage. The NHL on ABC is a former TV show that televised National Hockey League games on the American Broadcasting Company and was produced by ABC's College basketball most often refers to the American Basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA However, ABC did have their own graphics (though similar to ESPN's at the time) for college football and other sports. College football is American football played by teams of student athletes fielded by American universities, Colleges and military academies For the 2003-2004 season, ABC established new graphics for the NBA, in an effort to differentiate their telecasts from ESPN's. The 2003–04 NBA season was the 58th season of the National Basketball Association. On February 5, 2006, ABC established an all-new graphics package, including a Monday Night Football-esque bottomline scoreboard for the NBA. Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. Monday Night Football ( MNF) is a Live television broadcast of the National Football League. Also that day, ABC periodically placed a "Countdown to Super Bowl XL" graphic at the top of the screen (on March 5, 2006, ABC also inserted a "Countdown to the Oscars" graphic). Super Bowl XL featured the American Football Conference (AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC champion Seattle Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film.

ESPN, and by proxy ABC, began using the graphics from Monday Night Football on games starting in 2006. Monday Night Football ( MNF) is a Live television broadcast of the National Football League. The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. To distinguish ABC's NBA telecast from ESPN's, the 3-D ABC logo is added near the score bug, but on international markets where ABC-featured NBA games are telecast live, the ABC logo is not present.

Criticisms^[4]

One common complaint about NBA coverage on ABC is of strange camera angles, including the Floorcam and Skycam angles used by ABC throughout its coverage. ^[5] Other complaints are of camera angles that appear too far away, colors that seem faded and dull, and the quieting of crowd noise so that announcers can be heard clearly (by contrast to NBC, which allowed crowd noise to sometimes drown out their announcers). ^[6]

Some complaints have concerned the promotion, or perceived lack thereof, of NBA telecasts. The 2003 NBA Finals received very little fanfare on ABC or corporate partner ESPN; while subsequent Finals were promoted more on both networks, NBA related advertisements on ABC were still down significantly from promotions on NBC. The 2003 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2002-03 NBA season. NBA promos took up 3 minutes and 55 seconds of airtime on ABC during the week of May 23, 2004 according to the Sports Business Daily, comparable to 2 minutes and 45 seconds for the Indianapolis 500. Events 1430 - Siege of Compiègne: Joan of Arc is captured by the Burgundians while leading an army to relieve Compiègne The 2003–04 NBA season was the 58th season of the National Basketball Association. The Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, often shortened to Indianapolis 500 or Indy 500, and historically known simply as "The 500" is an American Promotions for the Indianapolis 500 outnumbered promotions for the NBA Finals fourteen-to-nine from the hours of 9:00 pm to 11:00 pm during that week. ^[7]

A common complaint of the network's coverage of the 2007 NBA Finals was the amount of time ABC's Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria (whose husband is Spurs guard Tony Parker) was on camera, causing some to feel that the network was more concerned about getting reaction shots of her than showing the games. The 2007 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2006-07 National Basketball Association season, and was the conclusion of the 2007 NBA Playoffs. Desperate Housewives is an American Television Dramedy series created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as Show runner, and produced Eva Jacqueline Longoria Parker (born March 15 1975 is a Golden Globe Award -nominated American Film and Television Actress. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. William Anthony "Tony" Parker (born) is a French professional Basketball player for the NBA 's San Antonio Spurs and member of This was also a common complaint of the 2004 NBA Finals between the Detroit Pistons and Los Angeles Lakers, when they would continuously cut to long-time Lakers fan Jack Nicholson. The 2004 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2003–04 National Basketball Association season. The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson (born April 22 1937) is an American Actor, internationally renowned for his often dark-themed portrayals There is also criticism of cross-promoting summer movies and other products during the series.

They were also criticized for focusing coverage on a select few teams, particularly the decision to schedule the Lakers against the Heat on Christmas Day for three straight years. The Miami Heat (often referred to simply as the Heat, including in some official team publications with HEAT in all capital letters are a professional Basketball However, for 2007, ABC has decided to break this tradition by instead having the Heat, for the fourth straight time, appear on Christmas Day facing the 2007 Eastern Conference Champions, the Cleveland Cavaliers. The 2007–08 NBA season was the 62nd season of the National Basketball Association. The Miami Heat (often referred to simply as the Heat, including in some official team publications with HEAT in all capital letters are a professional Basketball The Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association is made up of fifteen teams and organized in three divisions of five teams each ^[8]

Pregame show

For more details on ABC's NBA pregame show, see NBA Countdown. NBA Countdown, is a weekly thirty minute pregame show airing prior to each National Basketball Association (NBA telecast on the American Broadcasting Company

ABC has changed the name its pregame show five times in five seasons, and has rotated several analysts in each season. For the 2006-2007 season, the pregame show is known as NBA Sunday Countdown. The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. NBA Countdown, is a weekly thirty minute pregame show airing prior to each National Basketball Association (NBA telecast on the American Broadcasting Company Each season, the show has been sponsored by GMC, with exception of the Finals, where it is sponsored by Chevrolet. GMC, formerly known as GMC Truck, is a Brand name used on Trucks Vans and SUVs marketed in North America and the Chevrolet (ˌʃɛvroʊˈleɪ - French origin (also known as Chevy) is a Brand of Automobile, produced by General Motors (GM Mike Tirico hosted the pregame show from ABC's first season with the NBA to the middle of the network's fourth with the league. Michael Jonathon Tirico (born December 13, 1966) is the lead broadcaster for ESPN 's presentation of Monday Night Football, and for The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season of the National Basketball Association. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. On March 19, 2006, Tirico was replaced by ESPN's Dan Patrick, as Tirico was moved to the number two play-by-play team. Events 1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China. The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956) better known as Dan Patrick, is an American Sportscaster from Mason Ohio who On Christmas Day 2007, Stuart Scott became the new studio host, replacing Patrick, who left the network. Other hosts of the pregame show include former regular substitute John Saunders. John Saunders is a Canadian &ndash American sports Journalist from Toronto, Ontario.

Announcers

See also: Template:2000s NBA Finals broadcasters, Template:1970s NBA Finals broadcasters, and Template:1960s NBA Finals broadcasters

2002-03

After getting NBA rights, ABC courted two main announcers from the NBA on NBC, Bob Costas and Marv Albert. The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from Robert Quinlan "Bob" Costas (born March 22, 1952) is a Sportscaster, on the air for the NBC network since the early 1980s Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; June 12, 1941) is an American television and radio Sportscaster, honored for his work After Costas, (who was reportedly offered a generous deal which also included Major League Baseball play-by-play for ESPN and ABC News features)^[9] elected to remain with NBC, and Albert signed a six year deal with TNT, the network went with veteran broadcaster Brad Nessler to be the lead NBA play-by-play man. ESPN Major League Baseball is a promotion of Major League Baseball on ESPN and ESPN2, with simulcasts on ESPNHD or ESPN2HD This article is about the American news organization See also ABC News (disambiguation ABC News is a division of American The NBA on TNT, known since October 2002 as TNT NBA Thursday, is a weekly broadcast of National Basketball Association Brad Nessler (born June 3, 1956 in St Charles Minnesota is an American Sportscaster, who currently calls College basketball games Play-by-play, in Broadcasting, is a North American term and means the reporting of a Sporting event with a Voiceover describing the details of the action Nessler, who prior to that point had not been the main voice for any professional sport on television, received a call from Marv Albert's agent, soon after getting the job. On the call, the Internet Movie Database quoted him as saying:

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I need to know everybody and you can't know everybody and Marv knows everyone. . . . So, I'm just gonna use him as a valuable resource, if it's all right with him. ^[10]

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Nessler was joined by Bill Walton in a two-man booth. William Theodore "Bill" Walton III (born November 5 1952 is a retired American Basketball player and current Television Sportscaster The team did two broadcasts together before ABC decided that Walton needed a partner (much like he had at NBC with Steve Jones) and assigned pregame analyst Tom Tolbert to join the team. Stephen (Steve Howard "Snapper" Jones (born October 17 1942, in Alexandria Louisiana) is one of the most esteemed and watched National Nessler, Walton, and Tolbert broadcast most regular season games, and every network playoff game. Other games were broadcast by the team of Brent Musburger and Sean Elliott. Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939, in Portland Oregon) is an American Sportscaster for the ABC and ESPN Sean Michael Elliott (born February 2, 1968) is an American retired National Basketball Association player After the worst ratings in NBA Finals history, low ratings overall, and harsh criticism, ABC decided to retool the team. Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the Audience size and composition of television The 2003 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2002-03 NBA season.

2003-04

After disastrous ratings in the 2003 NBA Finals, ABC decided to completely revamp their lead NBA broadcast team. The 2003 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2002-03 NBA season. Brad Nessler was demoted to the second broadcast team, where he was joined by Sean Elliott and Dan Majerle. Brad Nessler (born June 3, 1956 in St Charles Minnesota is an American Sportscaster, who currently calls College basketball games Sean Michael Elliott (born February 2, 1968) is an American retired National Basketball Association player Daniel Lewis Majerle (surname 'mɑrliː born September 9, 1965) is an American former professional Basketball player and currently an assistant Tom Tolbert was relegated to pregame show duties only, and Bill Walton was removed from ABC's NBA coverage altogether (he remained with ESPN). Byron Thomas "Tom" Tolbert (born October 16 1965 in Long Beach California) is a retired American professional Basketball William Theodore "Bill" Walton III (born November 5 1952 is a retired American Basketball player and current Television Sportscaster ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to Meanwhile, longtime Monday Night Football commentator (and unofficial "Voice of ABC Sports") Al Michaels was hired to replace Nessler as lead broadcaster of the NBA. Monday Night Football ( MNF) is a Live television broadcast of the National Football League. Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American Television Sportscaster.

For the first several weeks of the 2003-2004 season, Michaels had no partner. The 2003–04 NBA season was the 58th season of the National Basketball Association. However, Doc Rivers, a critically acclaimed analyst when he worked with Turner Sports, became available after a 1-19 start by his Orlando Magic. Glenn Anton Rivers (born October 13 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) commonly referred to as Doc Rivers, is a retired American The NBA on TNT, known since October 2002 as TNT NBA Thursday, is a weekly broadcast of National Basketball Association The Orlando Magic is a professional Basketball team based in Orlando Florida. Rivers was hired weeks before ABC's Christmas Day season opener. He and Michaels worked that game together, one of only six they did together during the regular season (all other games Rivers worked were with Brad Nessler). During the playoffs, the team worked every single telecast, including the 2004 NBA Finals, which saw great improvement in television ratings. The 2004 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2003–04 National Basketball Association season. Nielsen Ratings are audience measurement systems developed by Nielsen Media Research to determine the Audience size and composition of television

During the 2004 NBA Playoffs, Doc Rivers was hired by the Boston Celtics. The Boston Celtics are an American professional Basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, playing in the Atlantic Division of the Though Rivers continued to work games with Al Michaels throughout the rest of the playoffs, ABC would have to find a new lead analyst for the 2004-2005 season. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA In addition, the network dropped Brad Nessler from all NBA coverage, and did not retain Sean Elliott or Dan Majerle.

2004-05

Early in the 2004-2005 season, ABC found a new partner for Al Michaels. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA Memphis Grizzlies coach Hubie Brown, a broadcasting legend with CBS, TBS, and TNT, was forced into retirement due to health reasons and was soon after hired to replace Doc Rivers. The Memphis Grizzlies are a professional Basketball team based in Memphis Tennessee. Hubert Jude "Hubie" Brown (born September 25, 1933 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA) is a former Basketball The NBA on CBS was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on CBS Sports. The NBA on TBS debuted in the 1984-1985 season (replacing the USA Network as the National Basketball Association 's national Cable television The NBA on TNT, known since October 2002 as TNT NBA Thursday, is a weekly broadcast of National Basketball Association Michaels and Brown began their partnership on Christmas Day 2004, working the highly anticipated Shaquille O'Neal-Kobe Bryant game. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal (born March 6 1972 frequently referred to simply as " Shaq " is an African American Professional basketball Kobe Bean Bryant (born) is an American All-Star Shooting guard After that game, the two did not do a game together again until March 2005. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Michaels became sporadic in NBA coverage, doing two games in early March, and then three more games in April. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Brown worked every week of ABC's coverage, broadcasting some games with veteran broadcaster Mike Breen. Mike Breen (born May 22, 1961) is a Play-by-play commentator for the NBA on ABC and the lead commentator for New York Knicks

In addition to Hubie Brown, ABC added other known analysts to its NBA coverage. Hubert Jude "Hubie" Brown (born September 25, 1933 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA) is a former Basketball Jim Durham and Dr. Jack Ramsay both worked several games during the regular season, while Brent Musburger, John Saunders, Len Elmore, and Mark Jackson were involved with others. Jim Durham (born February 12, 1947 in Chicago Illinois) is an American Sportscaster. This article refers to the basketball coach For the Canadian politician see Jack Ramsay (politician. Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939, in Portland Oregon) is an American Sportscaster for the ABC and ESPN John Saunders is a Canadian &ndash American sports Journalist from Toronto, Ontario. Leonard J Elmore (born March 28 1952 in New York City, New York) is an American Sportscaster, Lawyer and former Mark A Jackson (born April 1 1965 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American professional Basketball player who played Mike Breen and Dr. Jack Ramsay were the first secondary broadcast team to work a playoff game for ABC. Breen called three playoff games for the network in 2005, the most notable being Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals with Hubie Brown. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA

Al Michaels was criticised by the New York Post for not broadcasting the game and seeming disinterested with the NBA in general. The New York Post is the 13th-oldest Newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually Another criticism that Michaels received was that he too often found himself in tediously long-winded explanations. In return, he would be talking over two or three possessions in a row (which Michaels seemed to be better suited for football and baseball broadcasts, for which he's better known for). Monday Night Football ( MNF) is a Live television broadcast of the National Football League. Major League Baseball on ABC is the De facto title of a program that televises Major League Baseball games on the American Broadcasting Company The end result was that he would hardly have time to comment on the action viewers were seeing because he was so hung up on a prior subplot or storyline that he felt the audience just had to know about. ^[11]

Michaels, who had only broadcast a combined twelve regular season games with ABC (with all but one of those games airing from either Los Angeles, where he resides when not sportscasting, or Sacramento), did return for the NBA Finals, which scored its second lowest rating of all time (despite the fact that it was the first Finals in eleven years to go to a seventh game). Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West The 2005 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2004-05 National Basketball Association season.

2005-06

For the 2005-2006 season, Al Michaels and Hubie Brown were slated to remain as ABC's number one broadcast team. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. The duo worked that year's Christmas Day game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat and were expected to work the NBA Finals together as well. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Miami Heat (often referred to simply as the Heat, including in some official team publications with HEAT in all capital letters are a professional Basketball However, that plan did not come to fruition. After Michaels left ABC to cover Sunday Night Football for NBC,^[12] he was replaced by Mike Breen, who became the lead broadcaster for an over-the-air NBA package for the first time in his career. The NFL on NBC is the brand given to NBC Sports coverage of National Football League games until 1998 when NBC lost the NFL American Mike Breen (born May 22, 1961) is a Play-by-play commentator for the NBA on ABC and the lead commentator for New York Knicks Breen worked the 2006 Eastern Conference Finals and 2006 NBA Finals with Hubie Brown for both ESPN and ABC, as well as all the main games ABC broadcast that year. The 2006 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2005-06 National Basketball Association season. Hubert Jude "Hubie" Brown (born September 25, 1933 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA) is a former Basketball The promotion of Breen gave ABC its first consistent lead broadcaster since Brad Nessler, as Breen worked games every week. Brad Nessler (born June 3, 1956 in St Charles Minnesota is an American Sportscaster, who currently calls College basketball games Previously, Breen has worked the Eastern Conference Finals for NBC in 2001 and 2002, as well as the Western Conference Finals for ESPN in 2005.

Many sports writers and sports television analysts praised Breen, some for his explosive voice and excited calls on game-deciding and game-winning shots and others for the fact that, unlike his predecessor Al Michaels, he was already very familiar with broadcasting basketball games and was essentially a basketball lifer. ^[13] Despite that, he faced some criticism from those who complained that they would prefer a more established voice,^[14] such as Marv Albert or Kevin Harlan. Marv Albert (born Marvin Philip Aufrichtig; June 12, 1941) is an American television and radio Sportscaster, honored for his work Kevin Harlan (born June 21, 1960 in Milwaukee Wisconsin) is an American television sports announcer Hubie Brown faced criticism from writers (most notably Richard Sandomir of the New York Times^[15]) as well as bloggers and viewers.

For the secondary broadcast team, ABC reunited Bill Walton and Steve Jones for game coverage. Walton and Jones worked the Christmas Day 2005 broadcast between the San Antonio Spurs and Detroit Pistons for ABC, the first game they called together since Game 4 of the 2002 NBA Finals for NBC (NBC's last NBA telecast to date). PortalCurrent events News collections and sources See WikipediaNews collections and sources. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area The 2002 NBA Finals was the 56th championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA The pair worked their first broadcast with Mike Breen, and worked the remainder of the season with Brent Musburger, Jim Durham, and Mike Tirico. Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939, in Portland Oregon) is an American Sportscaster for the ABC and ESPN Jim Durham (born February 12, 1947 in Chicago Illinois) is an American Sportscaster. Michael Jonathon Tirico (born December 13, 1966) is the lead broadcaster for ESPN 's presentation of Monday Night Football, and for That team, along with the Breen-Brown duo, now often does games on ESPN's Wednesday or Friday coverage, which the previous ABC announce teams rarely did.

During 2006, ABC also used several SportsCenter reporters, including Tom Rinaldi, Rachel Nichols and Jeremy Schaap, for pregame and halftime features. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. SportsCenter is a daily Sports news Television show and the flagship program of American Cable network ESPN since the network Tom Rinaldi is a reporter for ESPN based in New York He has contributed to SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, College GameDay Rachel Nichols (née Alexander) is an ESPN reporter who covers breaking news and events for SportsCenter and also contributes investigative pieces Jeremy Schaap (b August 23 1969, New York City) is an American sportswriter television reporter and author

The Michaels era

For more details on Michaels' stint with the NBA on ABC, see Al_Michaels#National_Basketball_Association. Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American Television Sportscaster.

Al Michaels called a total of 37 games for the NBA on ABC, his last being the Christmas Day game in 2005. Michaels finished his NBA on ABC career with a grand total of thirteen broadcast regular season games, and only two outside of California. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. From March 7, 2004 to April 17, 2005, including playoff games, each game Michaels called involved either the Lakers or Kings (a total of 21 consecutive games). Events 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus The year 2004 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2004. Events 69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum, Vitellius becomes Roman Emperor. The year 2005 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2005. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Sacramento Kings are a professional Basketball team based in Sacramento California.

2006-07

For the 2006-07 NBA season, ABC's sports operations were fully integrated into ESPN and as a result, Mark Jackson replaced Hubie Brown as ABC's lead analyst (Brown would still pair with Mike Breen on ESPN's number one team and Mike Tirico on ABC's number two team). The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. Mark A Jackson (born April 1 1965 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American professional Basketball player who played Hubert Jude "Hubie" Brown (born September 25, 1933 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA) is a former Basketball Mike Breen (born May 22, 1961) is a Play-by-play commentator for the NBA on ABC and the lead commentator for New York Knicks The NBA on ESPN refers to the presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA games on the ESPN family of networks Michael Jonathon Tirico (born December 13, 1966) is the lead broadcaster for ESPN 's presentation of Monday Night Football, and for ABC's pregame show, which Jackson was a part of, will air from the site of the main game each week (much like ABC's first season in 2003). The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season of the National Basketball Association. ^[16]

Additionally, Michele Tafoya returned as a sideline reporter, after sitting out the 2005-06 season on maternity leave. Michele Tafoya (Vandersall (born December 17, 1964, in Manhattan Beach California) is an American television Sportscaster. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. ^[17]

2007-08

On July 9, 2007, it was announced by Dan Patrick that he would be leaving ESPN after 18 years with the network. Events 455 - Roman military commander Avitus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956) better known as Dan Patrick, is an American Sportscaster from Mason Ohio who Stuart Scott hosts ABC's pregame show for the 2007-08 season along with analysts Bill Walton and Michael Wilbon. Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965, in Chicago Illinois) is a sportscaster, most visibly as an anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter The 2007–08 NBA season was the 62nd season of the National Basketball Association. William Theodore "Bill" Walton III (born November 5 1952 is a retired American Basketball player and current Television Sportscaster Michael Raymond Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist Jeff Van Gundy also joined Mike Breen and Mark Jackson full-time, starting Christmas Day. After Walton had back problems in February, Jon Barry replaced him for the rest of the season. Jon Alan Barry (born July 25 1969, in Oakland California) is a retired American professional Basketball player and current television ^[18] ^[19]

List of broadcasters

Current

Mike Breen (lead play-by-play 2006-present; alternate play-by-play 2004-2006)
Hubie Brown (lead game analyst 2004-2006, secondary analyst 2006-present)
Mark Jackson (game analyst, 2005-present; studio analyst 2006-2007; lead analyst 2007-)
Ahmad Rashad (host of Access Ahmad halftime feature, 2002-present)
Lisa Salters (sideline reporter, 2005-present)
Stuart Scott (studio host 2007-present; sideline reporter, 2003-2007)
Michele Tafoya (sideline reporter, 2002-present)
Mike Tirico (play-by-play 2006-present; studio host, 2002-2006)
Jeff Van Gundy (lead analyst, 2007-present)
Bill Walton (game analyst, 2002-2003, 2005-2006; studio analyst, 2002-2005, 2007-present)
Michael Wilbon (studio analyst, 2006-present)

Former

David Aldridge (sideline reporter, 2002-2003)
Jon Barry (analyst, 2007)
Jim Durham (play-by-play, 2005-2006)
Sean Elliott (game analyst, 2002-2004)
Len Elmore (alternate game analyst 2004-2006)
Mark Jones (sideline reporter, 2005-2007)
Steve Jones (studio analyst, 2004-2005; game analyst, 2005-2006)
George Karl (studio analyst, 2003-2004)
Tim Legler (game analyst, 2006)
Dan Majerle (game analyst, 2003-2004)
Sal Masekela (sideline reporter, 2002-2003)
Al Michaels (play-by-play, 2003-2005)
Brent Musburger (play-by-play, 2002-2006)
Brad Nessler (play-by-play, 2002-2004)
Dan Patrick (studio host, 2006-2007)
Scottie Pippen (studio analyst, 2005-2006)
Jack Ramsay (game analyst, 2005)
Doc Rivers (game analyst, 2003-2004)
John Saunders (play-by-play, 2005-2006; substitute studio host from 2003-2005)
Byron Scott (studio analyst, 2004)
Tom Tolbert (game analyst, 2002-2003; studio analyst, 2002-2004)

TV ratings

For more details on ABC's NBA television ratings, see National_Basketball_Association_Nielsen_ratings#The_ABC_Era_.282002_-_.29. Mike Breen (born May 22, 1961) is a Play-by-play commentator for the NBA on ABC and the lead commentator for New York Knicks Hubert Jude "Hubie" Brown (born September 25, 1933 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, USA) is a former Basketball Mark A Jackson (born April 1 1965 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American professional Basketball player who played Ahmad Rashād (born Robert Earl Moore November 19, 1949 in Portland, Oregon) is an Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly Alisia (Lisa Salters is a Journalist and former collegiate women's Basketball player Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965, in Chicago Illinois) is a sportscaster, most visibly as an anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter Michele Tafoya (Vandersall (born December 17, 1964, in Manhattan Beach California) is an American television Sportscaster. Michael Jonathon Tirico (born December 13, 1966) is the lead broadcaster for ESPN 's presentation of Monday Night Football, and for Jeff Van Gundy (born January 19 1962 in Hemet California) is an American Basketball Head coach, most recently with the William Theodore "Bill" Walton III (born November 5 1952 is a retired American Basketball player and current Television Sportscaster Michael Raymond Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist David Aldridge (born February 10, 1965 in Washington DC) is a reporter and columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer and a reporter for Jon Alan Barry (born July 25 1969, in Oakland California) is a retired American professional Basketball player and current television Jim Durham (born February 12, 1947 in Chicago Illinois) is an American Sportscaster. Sean Michael Elliott (born February 2, 1968) is an American retired National Basketball Association player Leonard J Elmore (born March 28 1952 in New York City, New York) is an American Sportscaster, Lawyer and former Stephen (Steve Howard "Snapper" Jones (born October 17 1942, in Alexandria Louisiana) is one of the most esteemed and watched National George Matthew Karl (born May 12 1951) is an American retired National Basketball Association (NBA and American Basketball Association Timothy Eugene "Legs" Legler (born December 26, 1966 in Washington D Daniel Lewis Majerle (surname 'mɑrliː born September 9, 1965) is an American former professional Basketball player and currently an assistant Sal Masekela (born August 28, 1971) is an American television host and commentator. Alan Richard Michaels (born November 12, 1944) is an American Television Sportscaster. Brent Woody Musburger (born May 26, 1939, in Portland Oregon) is an American Sportscaster for the ABC and ESPN Brad Nessler (born June 3, 1956 in St Charles Minnesota is an American Sportscaster, who currently calls College basketball games Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956) better known as Dan Patrick, is an American Sportscaster from Mason Ohio who Scottie Maurice Pippen (born September 25 1965 is an American retired Professional Basketball player who played in the National Basketball This article refers to the basketball coach For the Canadian politician see Jack Ramsay (politician. Glenn Anton Rivers (born October 13 1961 in Chicago, Illinois) commonly referred to as Doc Rivers, is a retired American John Saunders is a Canadian &ndash American sports Journalist from Toronto, Ontario. Byron Antom Scott (born March 28 1961 in Ogden, Utah) is a former National Basketball Association player and current head coach of the NBA's New Orleans Byron Thomas "Tom" Tolbert (born October 16 1965 in Long Beach California) is a retired American professional Basketball The National Basketball Association has achieved a rapid rise and fall in television ratings since the 1997-1998 NBA season, when ratings for the NBA

**NBA on ABC average ratings**
Year	Season	Playoff	Finals
2002-03	2. The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season of the National Basketball Association. 6	4. 8	6. 5
2003-04	2. The 2003–04 NBA season was the 58th season of the National Basketball Association. 4	4. 5	11. 5
2004-05	2. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA 2	3. 3	8. 2
2005-06	2. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. 2	3. 8	8. 5
2006-07	2. The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. 0	2. 9	6. 2

ABC's ratings for the NBA Playoffs and Finals have been lower than NBC's ratings. The American Broadcasting Company ( ABC) is an American Television network. The NBA Playoffs is a best-of-seven elimination tournament between sixteen teams in the Eastern Conference and Western Conference (called Divisions The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association and the conclusion of the sport's postseason each June The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's In its last year televising the NBA, 2002, NBC experienced a growth in playoff ratings, leading to the highest rated Western Conference Final in league history, and a 14. The year 2002 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2002. The National Basketball Association Conference Finals are the Eastern conference and Western conference Championship series of the NBA. 2 rating for Game 7 of that series, which featured the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Sacramento Kings are a professional Basketball team based in Sacramento California. ABC's highest rating overall was a 13. 8 with a 23 share which came in Game 5 of the 2004 NBA Finals, lower than the 14. 2 registered by the Lakers-Kings series. While other sports are also experiencing low ratings (for example, baseball, which has seen the last two World Series register record-low ratings), the NBA has joined the ratings-challenged NHL as the only two out of the four major sports to have their championship ratings dip below a 10. For other events named "World Series" see World Series (disambiguation. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America 0. Regular season ratings fell to 2. 2 in 2005 and then again in 2006; that rating is less than half of what NBC averaged in the 1999 lockout-shortened regular season. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. The 1998–99 NBA season was the 53rd season of the National Basketball Association. The 2007 Finals, a series featuring the San Antonio Spurs and Cleveland Cavaliers, was the lowest rated Finals in league history, with a 6. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional Basketball team based in Cleveland Ohio. 2 rating and 11 share. This is perhaps attributed to the small-market representation and the four game series, in which San Antonio easily defeated Cleveland. Ratings have rebounded somewhat in 2008, with the Lakers-Nuggets Game 1 drawing a 3. 5 rating, the highest rating since 2003

Music

For more details on ABC's NBA music selections, see National_Basketball_Association_music#ABC_Sports. The National Basketball Association has links to hip hop music and has also had its own famous anthem in Roundball Rock.

After the 1990s (when the NBA arguably reached its highest point in terms of popularity) many hardcore and casual fans began to associate the league with NBC, and more accurately, the network's theme music, Roundball Rock. The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from "Roundball Rock" is a theme song composed by John Tesh and used for ''The NBA on NBC'' from 1990 - 2002. Whereas NBC used Roundball Rock for all twelve years of its coverage, ABC has used at least nine themes in its first four years. Three of the themes were traditional sports themes, while six of them (We Got Hoops by Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Can't Get Enough by Justin Timberlake,^[20] Let's Get It Started by the Black Eyed Peas, Lose My Breath by Destiny's Child, This Is How A Heart Breaks by Rob Thomas and Runnin' Down a Dream by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) were contemporary pieces by known artists. Robert Randolph & The Family Band is a Multicultural American Funk and soul band composed of Robert Randolph Marcus Randolph (drums Justin Randall Timberlake (born January 31 1981 He has English ancestry although he has also claimed some American Indian ancestry probably through unconfirmed The Black Eyed Peas is an American hip hop group from Los Angeles. " Lose My Breath " is an R&B - Dance-pop song performed by the American group Destiny's Child. Destiny's Child (sometimes referred to as DC or DC3) was an R&B and pop Girl group comprising lead singer Beyoncé Knowles " This Is How a Heart Breaks " is the second single from Matchbox Twenty Frontman Rob Thomas 's debut album …Something Robert Kelly Thomas (born February 14, 1972, in Landstuhl, Germany on a US military base is an American rock recording artist and " Runnin' Down a Dream " is a Song by Tom Petty, released in 1989 on his first solo album Full Moon Fever. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are an American rock band formed in 1975 by Tom Petty

For the 2006-07 NBA season, ESPN began using "Fast Break", ABC's NBA theme since 2004, as its theme. The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA Because of the move to ESPN on ABC (which calls for all sporting events on ABC to have the same production elements as games on ESPN), this means that games on ABC will have the same theme music from previous years.

In addition, ABC selected all female pop group The Pussycat Dolls to perform "Right Now" as the new introduction for NBA games. Pussycat Dolls is an American pop Girl group, and dance ensemble founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995 ^[21] This met with strong criticism from NBA fans, calling the music "wimpy", as opposed to TNT's using rap group Fort Minor's "Remember the Name", which has received acclaim from fans. Fort Minor is a Hip hop music side project of Mike Shinoda, vocalist of the rock band Linkin Park. "Remember the Name" is the first single with Petrified from the 2005 Fort Minor album The Rising Tied. ABC also used this music to promote the third season of Desperate Housewives. Desperate Housewives is an American Television Dramedy series created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as Show runner, and produced This came only months after NBC used female rock musician Pink to perform the open for Sunday Night Football. Alecia Beth Moore (born September 8 1979 known professionally as P!nk is a two-time Grammy -winning American Singer-songwriter who gained prominence NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly Television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on

For the 2008 season, "Nine Lives" by Def Leppard and Tim McGraw was used as ABC's new introductory song on their games. The 2007–08 NBA season was the 62nd season of the National Basketball Association. " Nine Lives " is a 2008 song by British rock band Def Leppard and the lead single to their Songs from the Sparkle Lounge Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw (born May 1, 1967) is an American country Singer and actor During the playoffs, ESPN also used the song prior to the start of the game.

Audience

According to a study by Simmons research, which involved a survey of an indeterminate number of American adults, the primary audience for the NBA Finals on ABC is primarily male, with a fairly even distribution of people aged 25-44 (approximately 20 percent of 25-34, 35-44 and 45-54 year old people surveyed said they watched the games). The NBA Finals is the championship series of the National Basketball Association and the conclusion of the sport's postseason each June The statistics showed that 64. 3 percent of the audience were white and 23. White People is the second album by Handsome Boy Modeling School. 7 percent were African American. African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa A combined 20. 5 percent of those polled with income from $100,000 to $249,999 said they watched games, and Democrats watching outnumbered Republicans 49% to 34%. The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. This research likely corresponds to the 2005 NBA Finals, as it was published in fall of that year. The 2005 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2004-05 National Basketball Association season. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. ^[22]

For the 2005 NBA Finals, the Nielsen local people meter found sharp increases in the percentage of those watching the NBA on ABC when isolating the African American audience. The 2005 NBA Finals was the championship round of the 2004-05 National Basketball Association season. Nielsen Media Research ( NMR) is an American firm that measures media Audiences including Television, Radio In Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., the percentage of African Americans watching the NBA Finals was larger than that of the entire population by 15 to 30 percentage points. Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The City of New York Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D In San Francisco, the disparity was largest; the percentage of African Americans was 56%, while the general population percentage was 27%. Most notably, "More than half of all African Americans adults in Washington, D. C. and San Francisco watched at least part of the NBA Finals. This was about twice as high as the overall viewing by the total population in those two markets. " Nielsen's local people meter also found that "In every LPM market, the ratings for the NBA Finals were twice as high for Men as for Women. "^[23]

The 2006 NBA Finals scored ratings of 20. The 2006 NBA Finals was the championship series of the 2005-06 National Basketball Association season. 4, 22. 3, 20. 6, 21. 9, 23. 8 and 24. 6 among African Americans. African Americans accounted for 30 percent of ABC's audience for Game 6 of the series. ^[24] Among Hispanics, the numbers for Games 3-5 were 6. 0, 7. 6, and 8. 2, and nationally, the ratings were 8. 0, 7. 8 and 9. 0. ^[25]

Other

Team appearances

The Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat played each other for three straight years on Christmas Day on ABC

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In its first three years of coverage, ABC televised 40 playoff games, whereas NBC aired 35 in 2002 alone. The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from The 2001–02 NBA season was the 56th season of the National Basketball Association. The San Antonio Spurs have appeared on ABC thirty-six times, the most of any other team. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. The Charlotte Bobcats and Los Angeles Clippers have not appeared on ABC during the length of the current contract, whereas the San Antonio Spurs, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks have appeared on the network every year since 2002. The Charlotte Bobcats are a professional Basketball team based in Charlotte North Carolina. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Dallas Mavericks (also known as the Mavs) are the professional Basketball team of the National Basketball Association based in Dallas Texas The Atlanta Hawks did appear on ABC during the network's coverage in the 1960s and 1970s, including a Christmas Day game against the Phoenix Suns in 1970. The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional Basketball team based in Atlanta Georgia. The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. The Phoenix Suns are a professional Basketball team based in Phoenix Arizona. The 1970–71 NBA season was the 25th season of the National Basketball Association. They didn't appear until Game 7 of the 2008 1st Round Playoffs against the Boston Celtics. The 2008 NBA Playoffs was the postseason for the National Basketball Association 's 2007-08 season which ended with the Eastern Conference champion Boston The Boston Celtics are an American professional Basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, playing in the Atlantic Division of the The Utah Jazz appearances have all come during the playoffs. The Utah Jazz is a professional Basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Clippers in fact did have an appearance scheduled on ABC, for an April 15, 2007 home game versus the Sacramento Kings. However, due to the lackluster performances by both teams during the course of the season, ABC instead pulled the game from its schedule, and inserted a game between the Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs (which was already part of that day's regional doubleheader schedule), and that Kings-Clippers matchup was instead aired locally on each team's regional sports carrier, thus waiving ABC's exclusivity rule for that 3:30pm Eastern time slot.

The Los Angeles Lakers have appeared in ABC's featured Christmas Day game every season (against the Sacramento Kings in 2002, the Houston Rockets in 2003, the Miami Heat in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and the Phoenix Suns in 2007). The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Sacramento Kings are a professional Basketball team based in Sacramento California. The Houston Rockets are an American professional Basketball team based in Houston Texas. The Miami Heat (often referred to simply as the Heat, including in some official team publications with HEAT in all capital letters are a professional Basketball The Phoenix Suns are a professional Basketball team based in Phoenix Arizona. After the Miami Heat, who have three Christmas Day appearances on ABC, the Sacramento Kings are the only other team to have repeat appearances on the holiday (in 2002 against the Lakers and in 2003 against the Mavericks).

Use of women

Unlike its predecessors, (but very much like Fox Sports) ABC has been known to add shots of cheerleaders during pregame montages, as well as shots of the dance teams many times when coming back from a commercial break. See also Fox Sports (Australia and Fox Sports Net. Fox Sports is a division of the Fox Broadcasting Company (part of During the 2003 NBA Playoffs, especially in the three games televised from Los Angeles, ABC would routinely cut to low-angle shots of attractive women in the stands, leading to the coining of the term "boob cam" by Pardon the Interruption host Tony Kornheiser among others. The 2003 NBA playoffs was the postseason of the National Basketball Association 's 2002-03 NBA season. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Pardon the Interruption (abbreviated PTI) is a Sports television show that airs weekdays on various ESPN TV channels Anthony Irwin Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948) is an American sportswriter and former columnist for The Washington Post, as well ^[26]

Sponsorships

During the 2004 NBA Playoffs, ABC and ESPN's telecasts were heavily sponsored by the feature film, The Day After Tomorrow. The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 apocalyptic science-fiction film that depicts the catastrophic effects of both Global warming and Global cooling During the 2005 NBA Playoffs, games were sponsored by XXX: State of the Union and, during the Finals, Fantastic Four. xXx State of the Union, mainly released as xXx 2 The Next Level outside of the United States and Canada is a 2005 action / Adventure Fantastic Four is a 2005 Superhero film based on the Marvel Comics comic Fantastic Four. From 2002 to 2005, ABC's halftime report was sponsored by Verizon Wireless. Cellco Partnership, Doing business as Verizon Wireless, owns and operates the second largest Wireless Telecommunications network in the Starting with the 2005-06 season, it was sponsored by T-Mobile. The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. T-Mobile is a Mobile network operator headquartered in Bonn, Germany. From 2002 to 2005, ABC had a GMC sponsored feature known as the GMC Professional Grade Plays of the Week, which was later changed to the GMC Professional Grade Matchup during the 2005 NBA Playoffs. GMC, formerly known as GMC Truck, is a Brand name used on Trucks Vans and SUVs marketed in North America and the During the 2003 NBA Finals, ABC adopted one of ESPN's SportsCenter features, The Budweiser Hot Seat, which was hosted by Jim Gray. SportsCenter is a daily Sports news Television show and the flagship program of American Cable network ESPN since the network Budweiser is an American-style lager and is one of the most popular beers in the United States. Jim Gray is an American Sportscaster. He has previously worked as a reporter with NBC Sports and CBS Sports. Other ESPN features that ABC has used include the Sprite Mad Skillz, and GameTrack or Storyline, which was sponsored by varied brands, including KFC and Volkswagen, ABC's telecast of the Miami Heat-Los Angeles Lakers game on Christmas Day 2004, was sponsored by American Express, also the NBA Sunday package after the All-Star break in 2007 became sponsored by Hertz. Sprite is a clear soda Lemon-lime Flavored caffeine free Soft drink, produced by The Coca-Cola Company. Kentucky Fried Chicken, usually known as KFC, is a chain of Fast food restaurants based in Louisville Kentucky. The Miami Heat (often referred to simply as the Heat, including in some official team publications with HEAT in all capital letters are a professional Basketball The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. American Express ( sometimes known as " AmEx " or " Amex " is a diversified global Financial services company headquartered in The hertz (symbol Hz) is a measure of Frequency, informally defined as the number of events occurring per Second.

As official sponsors of the NBA, T-Mobile, Sprite/Coca-Cola, Budweiser/Bud Light, American Express and Toyota each sponsor segments and/or have commercials aired during telecasts. T-Mobile is a Mobile network operator headquartered in Bonn, Germany. Coca-Cola is a carbonated Soft drink sold in stores restaurants and Vending machines in more than 200 countries Budweiser is an American-style lager and is one of the most popular beers in the United States. American Express ( sometimes known as " AmEx " or " Amex " is a diversified global Financial services company headquartered in (pronounced) is a Multinational corporation headquartered in Japan, and is currently the world's largest Automaker.

Features

Since the beginning of the NBA on ABC, Ahmad Rashad has delivered weekly interviews with NBA players in a segment known as Access Ahmad. Ahmad Rashād (born Robert Earl Moore November 19, 1949 in Portland, Oregon) is an Emmy award-winning sportscaster (mostly In addition, Rashad hosts NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad, a weekly show about the lives of NBA personalities. From 2003 to 2005, ABC's pregame show had a feature known as The NBA Minute, where celebrities (including Ice Cube, Samuel L. Jackson, and Ron Howard) would have a minute to talk about the NBA. O'Shea Jackson (born June 15 1969 better known by his Stage name Ice Cube, is an American Actor, Screenwriter, producer, and Samuel Leroy Jackson (born December 21 1948 is an American Academy Award -nominated and BAFTA -winning actor Ronald William Howard (born March 1 1954 is a director and producer as well as an Actor.

Previous history

From 1962 up until 1973, ABC was the primary television partner of the NBA. The 1962–63 NBA season was the 17th season of the National Basketball Association. The 1972–73 NBA season was the 27th season of the National Basketball Association. For much of the 1960s, ABC only televised Sunday afternoon games, including the playoffs. This meant that ABC did not have to televise a potential NBA Finals deciding game if it was played on a weeknight. In 1969, ABC did televise Game 7 of the Los Angeles Lakers-Boston Celtics series in prime time on a weeknight. The 1969 NBA World Championship Series to determine the champion of the 1968-69 NBA season was played between the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics, The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Boston Celtics are an American professional Basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, playing in the Atlantic Division of the The following season, ABC aired the 1970 NBA Finals in full, making it the first NBA Final to have all games televised nationally. Road to the Finals The New York Knicks had a very successful season their 60 wins coming as a result of team play instead of big-name

Commentators for the original NBA on ABC included play-by-play men Keith Jackson and Chris Schenkel and analysts Jack Twyman, Bob Cousy, and Bill Russell. Play-by-play, in Broadcasting, is a North American term and means the reporting of a Sporting event with a Voiceover describing the details of the action Keith Jackson (born October 18, 1928) is an American former Sportscaster, known for his long career with ABC Sports television Christopher Eugene Schenkel ( August 21, 1923 - September 11, 2005 was an American Sportscaster. A color commentator, sometimes known as a color analyst, is a member of the Broadcasting team for a sporting event who assists the Play-by-play John Kennedy "Jack" Twyman (born May 11, 1934 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania) is a former professional Basketball player Robert Joseph "Bob" Cousy (born August 9 1928 in New York City) is a former French - American professional Basketball player William Felton "Bill" Russell (born February 12 1934 in Monroe, Louisiana) is a retired American professional Basketball On April 8, 1967, an AFTRA strike forced ABC Sports producer Chuck Howard and director Chet Forte to call Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals between Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers. Events 217 - Roman Emperor Caracalla is Assassinated (and succeeded by his Praetorian The 1966–67 NBA Season was the 21st season of the National Basketball Association. The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA is a performers' union that represents a wide variety of talent including actors in radio and television as well as radio Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal by Employees to perform work. Charles (Chuck Howard was born in 1933 He graduated from Duke University in 1955 where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity Fulvio Chester "Chet" Forte Jr ( August 7, 1935 in Hackensack New Jersey – May 18, 1996 in San Diego California The Boston Celtics are an American professional Basketball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, playing in the Atlantic Division of the The Philadelphia 76ers (also known as the Sixers for short are a professional Basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Curt Gowdy also was the play-by-play for half of the season in 1967. Curtis Edward Gowdy ( July 31 1919 – February 20 2006) was an American Sportscaster, well-known as the longtime "voice" Play-by-play, in Broadcasting, is a North American term and means the reporting of a Sporting event with a Voiceover describing the details of the action Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar.

Statistics

**Games televised / television contracts per season (ABC)**
Season	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Games	27	29	34	36	33	TBD
Contracts	$2. The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season of the National Basketball Association. The 2003–04 NBA season was the 58th season of the National Basketball Association. The 2004–05 NBA season was the 59th season of the National Basketball Association (NBA The 2005–06 NBA season was the 60th season of the National Basketball Association. The 2006–07 NBA season was the 61st season of the National Basketball Association. The 2007–08 NBA season was the 62nd season of the National Basketball Association. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 4 billion/6 years

Oddities

On April 30, 2006, with a minute to go in overtime of Game 4 of the Los Angeles Lakers-Phoenix Suns first round playoff game (a game that ended with a game winning shot by Kobe Bryant at the buzzer), a cable-only ABC affiliate in Santa Cruz, California operated by San Francisco's KGO-TV cut away to an infomercial of The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show hosted by Regis Philbin - never going back to the game, most likely due to automation that triggered the infomercial to start without interruption. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Phoenix Suns are a professional Basketball team based in Phoenix Arizona. Kobe Bean Bryant (born) is an American All-Star Shooting guard Santa Cruz is the County seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California, United States. KGO-TV, channel 7 based in San Francisco California, is an owned-and-operated (O&O television station of The Walt Disney Company Subsidiary Infomercials (or informercials are Television commercials that run for one minute or for as long as a typical Television program Regis Francis Xavier Philbin (born August 25, 1931) is an Emmy Award -winning American Television personality and occasional Actor Automation ( Ancient Greek: = self dictated) roboticization or industrial automation or Numerical control is the use of Control systems ^[27]

ABC's March 23, 2003 telecast of the Los Angeles Lakers playing the San Antonio Spurs was interrupted several times for ABC News coverage of the Iraq War. Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow. The year 2003 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2003. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas. This article is about the American news organization See also ABC News (disambiguation ABC News is a division of American The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing Military campaign Game coverage was moved around on ESPN and ESPN2 before ending on ABC, towards the end of the fourth quarter. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to ESPN2 debuted on October 1, 1993, as a sister station of ESPN. Several times in 2003, ABC went to news coverage at halftime of an NBA game, for an update on the war. The January 30, 2005 broadcast of the Houston Rockets and the Miami Heat was delayed by a speech by United States President George W. Bush on the Iraqi elections. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain The year 2005 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2005. The Houston Rockets are an American professional Basketball team based in Houston Texas. The Miami Heat (often referred to simply as the Heat, including in some official team publications with HEAT in all capital letters are a professional Basketball The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. The politics of Iraq takes place in a framework of a more or less federal parliamentary representative democratic Republic, whereby the

The April 30, 2006 playoff game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns was the latest a non-prime time game has gone. Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. The Phoenix Suns are a professional Basketball team based in Phoenix Arizona. The telecast ended at 6:39 p. m. Eastern Time, after a game winning shot in overtime.

On January 22, 2006 two of the more notable NBA regular season games in recent history occurred, as Los Angeles Laker Kobe Bryant scored 81 points in a single game and the Seattle SuperSonics beat the Phoenix Suns 152-149 in double overtime. Events 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus. The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. Kobe Bean Bryant (born) is an American All-Star Shooting guard The Seattle SuperSonics (also called the Seattle Sonics) were an American professional Basketball team based in Seattle Washington that played The Phoenix Suns are a professional Basketball team based in Phoenix Arizona. Neither of those games aired on ABC, which instead broadcast the 76ers-Timberwolves game and a Denver Nuggets-San Antonio Spurs game regionally. The Philadelphia 76ers (also known as the Sixers for short are a professional Basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Minnesota Timberwolves are a professional Basketball team based in Minneapolis Minnesota, United States. The Denver Nuggets are a professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional Basketball team based in San Antonio Texas.

The February 5, 2006 ABC telecast between the Houston Rockets and New York Knicks did not air in Detroit, which was hosting that day's Super Bowl, or Pittsburgh, whose Steelers were competing in the game. Events 1576 - Henry of Navarre converts to Roman Catholicism in order to ensure his right to the throne of France. The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. The Houston Rockets are an American professional Basketball team based in Houston Texas. Super Bowl XL featured the American Football Conference (AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC champion Seattle Viewers in Detroit and Pittsburgh were able to watch the game on ESPN2. ESPN2 debuted on October 1, 1993, as a sister station of ESPN. Viewers in Detroit could also watch the game on WTVG-TV in neighboring Toledo. Later that month, WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh once again pre-empted an NBA on ABC game, cutting off the first hour of the February 26, 2006 NBA on ABC game featuring the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons so they could instead show an hour of children's programming, including Phil of the Future and The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional Basketball team based in Cleveland Ohio. The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area Phil of the Future is an American Comedy Children's television series that was produced by 2121 Productions (a part of Brookwell The Suite Life of Zack & Cody was an American Disney Channel Original Series created by Danny Kallis and Jim Geoghan This is not an isolated incident for WTAE-TV, as each week, they pre-empt the NBA on ABC pregame show so they can air children's programming.

Also on February 26, 2006, ABC used sideline reporter Stuart Scott as its halftime host for the Cavaliers-Pistons game. Events 747 BC - Epoch (origin of Ptolemy 's Nabonassar Era 364 - Valentinian I is proclaimed The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. Stuart Scott (born July 19, 1965, in Chicago Illinois) is a sportscaster, most visibly as an anchor on ESPN's SportsCenter The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional Basketball team based in Cleveland Ohio. The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area Scott hosted the halftime show from The Palace of Auburn Hills, without an analyst. The Palace of Auburn Hills, often referred to simply as The Palace, is a Sports and entertainment venue in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb This is mainly due to the fact that there was no pregame show that day, and then-regular host Mike Tirico was on assignment covering a golf tournament. Michael Jonathon Tirico (born December 13, 1966) is the lead broadcaster for ESPN 's presentation of Monday Night Football, and for

On February 4, 2007, ABC had Mike Breen join Michael Wilbon and Mark Jackson during the halftime show of the Pistons-Cavaliers from Cleveland. Events 211 - Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons The year 2007 in television involves some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2007. Mike Breen (born May 22, 1961) is a Play-by-play commentator for the NBA on ABC and the lead commentator for New York Knicks Michael Raymond Wilbon (born November 19, 1958) is an American sportswriter and columnist Mark A Jackson (born April 1 1965 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American professional Basketball player who played The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area The Cleveland Cavaliers (also known as the Cavs) are a professional Basketball team based in Cleveland Ohio. There was no pregame show and the regular host, Dan Patrick, was covering the Super Bowl in Miami. Daniel Patrick Pugh (born May 15, 1956) better known as Dan Patrick, is an American Sportscaster from Mason Ohio who Super Bowl XLI was an American football game played on February 4 2007 at Dolphin Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, a suburb of

On March 16, 2008, ABC originally had one game scheduled between the New Orleans Hornets vs. Events 597 BC - Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king The year 2008 in television involves some significant plansBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2008. The New Orleans Hornets are a professional Basketball team based in New Orleans Louisiana, United States. Detroit Pistons but changed the start time to 1:00 ET and added the Los Angeles Lakers vs. The Detroit Pistons are a team in the National Basketball Association based in the Detroit metropolitan area The Los Angeles Lakers are a National Basketball Association (NBA team based in Los Angeles, California. Houston Rockets contest originally scheduled to be seen on NBA TV at 7 ET to 3:30 for a NBA Sunday doubleheader due to growing attention toward the game. The Houston Rockets are an American professional Basketball team based in Houston Texas. NBA TV is a Television network that is dedicated to showcasing the sport of Basketball in the United States.

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^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070627/ap_on_sp_bk_ne/bkn_nba_new_tv_deal;_ylt=AsXi6MFdcedJ3miXYTnybGS79LQF
^ NBA Finalizes Cable-Heavy TV Deal, Sees 25% Fee Increase
^ Stern Talks Smack With Rome: TV Deal And WNBA Profitability
^ The ABCs of ruining the NBA, Part II
^ King Kaufman's Sports Daily
^ NBA on ABC can't live up to predecessors
^ The Daily Monitors ABC's Promotional Push Around NBA Finals
^ Stockings void of Shaq-Kobe
^ Madden, Costas could be in Disney's sights
^ News for Brad Nessler
^ NBA on ABC Can't Live Up to Predecessors
^ In 2005, the National Football League signed a contract with General Electric's NBC to air Sunday night football games. The NBA on CBS was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on CBS Sports. The NBA on TBS debuted in the 1984-1985 season (replacing the USA Network as the National Basketball Association 's national Cable television The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from The NBA on TNT, known since October 2002 as TNT NBA Thursday, is a weekly broadcast of National Basketball Association The NBA on ESPN refers to the presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA games on the ESPN family of networks The 2005 season of the National Football League (NFL was the 86th season played by the major professional American football league in the United States The National Football League ( NFL) is the largest professional American football league. The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's NBC Sunday Night Football is a weekly Television broadcast of Sunday evening National Football League games on NBC that began airing on The games would replace ABC's Monday Night Football, which Al Michaels had been broadcasting for nearly 20 years. Monday Night Football ( MNF) is a Live television broadcast of the National Football League. Speculation was that Michaels would leave ABC for NBC, but that was squashed when he signed a deal with the Walt Disney Company to broadcast Monday Night Football on its new network, ESPN. ESPN, originally an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, is an American Cable television network dedicated to However, in the weeks leading up to Super Bowl XL (ABC's final NFL broadcast to date), it was widely speculated that Michaels was attempting to get out of his contract with ESPN to join John Madden (the analyst he worked Monday Night Football with for the previous four years) at NBC. Super Bowl XL featured the American Football Conference (AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers and the National Football Conference (NFC champion Seattle John Earl Madden (born April 10, 1936) is a former National Football League player a former head coach with the Oakland Raiders, a football Michaels added fuel to the fire by refusing to state his future plans, and he couldn't "respond to rumors. . . because that would become a distraction. " On February 8, 2006, ESPN announced that its Monday Night Football team would consist of Mike Tirico on play-by-play, with football anaylst Joe Theismann and Tony Kornheiser as analysts. Events 421 - Constantius III becomes co- Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The year 2006 in television involved some significant eventsBelow is a list of Television -related events in 2006. Michael Jonathon Tirico (born December 13, 1966) is the lead broadcaster for ESPN 's presentation of Monday Night Football, and for Joseph Robert Theismann (born September 9 1949 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA is a former American football Quarterback Anthony Irwin Kornheiser (born July 13, 1948) is an American sportswriter and former columnist for The Washington Post, as well ESPN explicitly stated that Michaels would not return to either Monday Night Football broadcasts or ABC's NBA broadcasts, all but assuring Michaels' departure from ABC after 30 years of service, and joining Madden at NBC to broadcast football on Sunday nights.
^ Being out of spotlight doesn't bother Breen
^ And Here Come the Heat
^ When Hubie speaks, fans have no choice but to listen
^ Jackson, Barry join ABC/ESPN for NBA coverage
^ Christmas Day doubleheader will be a challenge for Tafoya
^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070709/ap_en_tv/espn_patrick_2
^ 2007-08 NBA Season on ESPN Begins Oct. 31
^ He "Can't Get Enough" NBA
^ ABC NBA OPEN TO FEATURE THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS
^ Who Watches the NBA Finals on ABC
^ NBA Finals have High Reach among African American Viewers
^ NBA championship is a winner, but likely means end of ABC dominance of top ten
^ Cynopsis MCE, 6/22/06
^ CHUMP - ABC Low Budget Stuff
^ Another Reason To Strangle Regis - Deadspin

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Preceded by None	NBA network broadcast partner 1962 - 1973	Succeeded by CBS
Preceded by NBC	NBA network broadcast partner 2002 - present	Succeeded by Incumbent

The 1962–63 NBA season was the 17th season of the National Basketball Association. The 1972–73 NBA season was the 27th season of the National Basketball Association. The NBA on CBS was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on CBS Sports. The NBA on NBC was a weekly presentation of National Basketball Association games on the National Broadcasting Company television network from The 2002–03 NBA season was the 57th season of the National Basketball Association.

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