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CCTV airs Game 5 of NBA Finals, ending year-long hiatus
CCTV, the state-run Chinese broadcaster, aired the fifth game of the NBA Finals series on Saturday, the first time an NBA game was broadcast in China since a controversial tweet damaged the nation’s r…
Round-Up: Nike layoffs, esports welfare concerns, Windies Australia tour postponed, CCTV uses virtual anchor, and more
Nike is to lay off at least 500 staff at its headquarters in Oregon, US, after a loss-making second quarter - Fox Business
CCTV maintains NBA blackout
The NBA season got underway yesterday (Thursday) without television coverage in China as state broadcaster CCTV maintained its blackout amid a long-running dispute with the basketball league
CCTV’s Premier League broadcasts ‘demoted’ amid diplomatic tension
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has switched its coverage of English Premier League football matches to its less popular CCTV5 Plus sports channel in a move analysts are linking to diplomatic tensions between…
CCTV maintains stance on NBA coverage
Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has moved to deny claims that it will resume its coverage of the NBA basketball league
Round-Up: Endeavor loan, Japan rugby league delayed, Victorian teams resume training, and more
Sports and entertainment group Endeavor has secured a $260m loan to help it through the Covid-19 downturn, the Wall Street Journal reports. The loan supplements an existing $2
NBA and Tsai ‘optimistic’ over return of CCTV coverage
Brooklyn Nets owner Joseph Tsai has expressed his desire for Chinese state broadcaster CCTV to resume its coverage of the NBA basketball league amid the continued fallout caused by a tweet sent last year…
NBA season gets underway without CCTV coverage in China
State broadcaster CCTV did not show the opening games of the 2019-20 NBA season amid the ongoing strained relationship between China and the North American basketball league
The fall and rise of CCTV
China’s state broadcaster, CCTV, used to have a monopoly on sports-rights, but then quickly became seen as a dinosaur as new players emerged. Mark Dreyer ponders whether it is too early to write off the media giant.