By Nick Moyle, Staff writer | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2024-09-10 16:34:20
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2023 年 1 月 13 日，圣安东尼奥马刺队在阿拉莫穹顶球馆迎来了 68,323 名观众，创下了 NBA 单场观众人数纪录。这是自 2002 年以来，马刺队首次回到穹顶球馆，举办了名为“重回穹顶”的 50 周年庆典活动，并迎战金州勇士队。前马刺队后卫艾弗里·约翰逊(Avery Johnson)、肖恩·埃利奥特(Sean Elliott)和比尔·兰德(Bill Land)担任比赛解说。（托尼·加西亚/圣安东尼奥马刺队）
本赛季，马刺球迷可能会有一个新的平台观看比赛，因为亚马逊和钻石体育集团（DSG，运营区域性Bally Sports频道的公司）正接近达成一项转播协议。
《纽约邮报》的杰克·科斯曼(Jack Kosman)上周报道，亚马逊和DSG正处于“就一项合同进行后期谈判，该合同将允许亚马逊Prime在本赛季直播所有Bally Sports转播的12支NBA球队的比赛”。在2023-24赛季，Bally Sports西南频道直播了马刺队61场常规赛和1场季前赛，KENS 5（11场）和CW35（4场）直播了该队剩余的本地比赛。Bally Sports+的订阅者还可以观看在其有线频道播出的比赛。
据《邮报》报道，如果亚马逊与DSG的交易在2024-25赛季之前达成，Prime会员将可以选择每月额外支付20美元，以观看他们主队的本地比赛。届时将不再需要有线电视订阅，不过Bally仍将向其区域电台转播比赛。
亚马逊和DSG至少从1月份就开始谈判，当时亚马逊同意向DSG投资约1.15亿美元，而DSG在大约一年前申请了破产保护。据多家媒体报道，这家由杰夫·贝索斯(Jeff Bezos)拥有的跨国科技巨头上个月决定撤回该报价。
尽管亚马逊退出了最初的协议，但贝索斯似乎有意尽可能多地获取NBA内容。在7月份的一份联合声明中，亚马逊和NBA证实，他们已经就一项价值数十亿美元的11年媒体版权协议达成一致，该协议将从2025-26赛季开始生效。
据报道，亚马逊将每年向NBA支付18亿美元，以换取66场全国直播的常规赛、季中阿联酋航空NBA杯淘汰赛和季后赛附加赛所有比赛的独家流媒体版权。
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Report: Spurs games could stream on Amazon Prime this season
The San Antonio Spurs set a single-game N.B.A. attendance record by welcoming a crowd of 68,323 on Friday, January 13, 2023 at the Alamodome for a Record-Breaking 50th Anniversary Party “Back Home in the Dome” for the first time since 2002 as they hosted the Golden State Warriors. Former Spurs guard Avery Johnson, Sean Elliott and Bill Land play-by-play broadcasters. (Photo by Tony Garcia/San Antonio Spurs)
Spurs fans could have a new platform to watch games on this season with Amazon and Diamond Sports Group (DSG) – the company that operates regional Bally Sports channels – nearing a broadcast agreement.
The New York Post’s Jack Kosman last week reported Amazon and DSG are in "late-stage talks for a contract to livestream on Amazon Prime this coming season all the Bally Sports broadcasts of 12 NBA franchises.” Bally Sports Southwest aired 61 of the Spurs’ regular-season games and one preseason game during the 2023-24 campaign – KENS 5 (11 games) and CW35 (four) broadcast the remainder of the team’s local games. Subscribers to the Bally Sports+ were also able to stream games that aired on its cable channel.
According to the Post, if Amazon’s deal with DSG goes through prior to the 2024-25 season, Prime subscribers would have an option to pay an additional $20 per month for access to their home team’s local games. A cable subscription would no longer be required, though Bally would still broadcast games to its regional stations.
Amazon and DSG have been in negotiations since at least January, when the former agreed to invest around $115 million in the latter about one year after it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The multinational tech giant owned by Jeff Bezos decided to withdraw that offer last month, according to multiple reports.
Though Amazon pulled out of that original agreement, Bezos appears intent on amassing as much NBA content as possible. In a joint announcement in July, Amazon and the NBA confirmed they had come to terms on a multibillion-dollar 11-year media rights agreement that will begin with the 2025-26 season.
Amazon will reportedly pay the NBA $1.8 billion per season in exchange for the exclusive streaming rights to 66 nationally televised regular-season games, the knockout rounds of the in-season Emirates NBA Cup and every game of the postseason Play-In Tournament.
By Nick Moyle, Staff writer, via San Antonio Express-News