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Warner Bros. Discovery sues NBA to secure media rights awarded to Amazon
The media company seeks to prevent the NBA from awarding the rights to Amazon, whose games package Warner Bros. Discovery tried to match.
The NBA said Wednesday it had reached agreements with Disney, Comcast ’s NBCUniversal and Amazon on three different packages of games, ending its nearly 40-year relationship with Warner Bros. Discovery’s Turner Sports. Discovery said earlier this week it submitted paperwork to the league to match one of the packages, which people familiar with the matter identified as the $1.8 billion-per-year group of games earmarked for Amazon. This, in turn, affects the price TBS and WBD can charge to their advertisers and downstream distributors that license TNT for transmission to their customers,” the company wrote in the complaint.
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