Black NBA play-by-play broadcasters discuss how few people of color have that job
Only one NBA broadcast team has a Black TV play-by-play announcer. The same is true for radio.
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Raptors’ title brought ratings and revenue for part owners Bell and Rogers, but outages ruined key moments for thousands of subscribers
Rogers' Sportsnet Now crashed during the first half of Game 5 of the NBA Final. Bell's Fibe TV crashed in the final 30 seconds there. And Fibe TV's app crashed during the final moments of Game 6, causing viewers to miss the moment where the Raptors officially won the NBA championship.
Ariel Helwani dons Canadian flag on SportsCenter after Raptors’ win, says “this is a team winning for an entire country”
Helwani gave a passionate speech about what he thinks the Raptors' win meant to Canada.
TSN identified Halifax, Nova Scotia as Regina, Saskatchewan during shots of Game 6 viewing parties
Just about 2,000 miles off there, TSN.
NBA Finals Game 6 posts a 13.2 overnight rating, down from Game 5 and middle of the pack relative to previous Game 6...
The solid (but not spectacular) rating slots in the middle of the pack when compared to prior Game 6 ratings.
NBA Finals Game 5 sees Raptors set another Canadian record, beat Big Bang Theory series finale
The average audience of 6.9 million viewers (English and French) here broke a lot of Canadian sports viewership marks, and even beat the Canadian audience for The Big Bang Theory's series finale.
NBA Finals Game 5 overnight rating jumps to 13.4, best in series, still down from 2015, 2016, and 2017
The injury to Kevin Durant obviously casts a bit of a shadow over the NBA Finals, but the overnight rating for Game 5 was easily the best of the series.
In Canada, Game 4 of the NBA Finals beat the Super Bowl (in English) and was the top NBA broadcast in Canadian history
Friday's Game 4 saw a higher average English-language audience in Canada than this year's Super Bowl (which wasn't simsubbed).
Game 1 of the NBA Finals pulled in the lowest overnight for a Finals game since 2013, thanks to a few factors
Toronto's home market doesn't help American television ratings, but the possibility of a competitive series has to be promising.
The Starters host Tas Melas detailed series of airport mishaps that kept him from seeing Toronto clinch the East
After getting bumped on standby from multiple flights and an ill-timed Pei Wei run, Tas Melas missed out on seeing Toronto clinch the East.
The map of Ontario ESPN showed on The Jump was hilariously inaccurate about the locations of Hamilton and Oshawa
This graphic put Hamilton south and west near Windsor, and Oshawa as far east as Kingston.
10 must-watch NBA games in April: The playoff push is on
There's a lot to keep track of during the next 10 days.
10 must-watch NBA games in March: Warriors, Cavs look to improve playoff positioning
Which NBA games do you need to watch in March?
Raptors’ Masai Ujiri says it’s a “bunch of BS” they aren’t on U.S. national TV more, but they’re on more often than 10...
"We don’t play as many of the so-called ESPN games, why is that? We’ve had one of the best records the last five years in the league so I don’t understand why the NBA does not give us, I think it’s a bunch of BS if you ask me, that they don’t give us more games."
