{"id":81853,"date":"2012-12-18T00:24:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/viasat-broadcasting-nba-collaborate-to-increase-coverage\/"},"modified":"2012-12-18T00:24:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T16:24:55","slug":"viasat-broadcasting-nba-collaborate-to-increase-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/viasat-broadcasting-nba-collaborate-to-increase-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Viasat Broadcasting, NBA Collaborate to Increase Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[12-17-12] <strong>Modern Times Group (MTG)<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Viasat Broadcasting <\/strong>will provide season-long coverage of the <strong>National Basketball Association (NBA)<\/strong> according to a new multi-year pay-TV partnership, the organizations announced Dec. 17.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Viasat Sport East channel will broadcast up to five regular season games per week along with marquee NBA events including the NBA All-Star Weekend, Play-offs and The Finals for viewers in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Georgia on the Viasat Sport East channel.<br \/>\n\tThe Viasat Sport East channel is available on Russia\u2019s <strong>Raduga <\/strong>TV digital satellite TV platform, of which MTG owns 50 percent, as well as on third party satellite, IPTV and cable networks. &nbsp;<br \/>\n\t\u201cThe new agreement between Viasat Sport and NBA follows our successful cooperation with the NBA during the 2012 Play-offs,\u201d MTG Executive Vice President of Russian &amp; CIS Broadcasting Irina Gofman said in a statement. \u201cWe are delighted that Viasat Sport East subscribers will now be able to watch coverage of the NBA 2012-13 season as the NBA is the world\u2019s premier basketball league with a large and loyal fan base across the region.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[12-17-12] Modern Times Group (MTG)\u2019s Viasat Broadcasting will provide season-long coverage of the National Basketball Association (NBA) according to a new multi-year pay-TV partnership, the organizations announced Dec. 17. The Viasat Sport East channel will broadcast up to five regular season games per week along with marquee NBA events including the NBA All-Star Weekend, Play-offs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81853"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}