Local NBA ratings increase eight percent, aided by RSN to broadcast shift
by Awful Announcing
Awful Announcing— The NBA’s audience on local television reached its highest level in five years during the 2023-24 season, and was up eight percent from last season. Per the Sports Business Journal, 17 of the league’s 27 measured teams (excluding the Canada-based Raptors and both the Hornets and Grizzlies, whose games air on Bally Sports South subfeeds)
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SFGate—Warriors TV broadcast team rated as worst in NBA by national fan poll. Golden State Warriors broadcasters Bob Fitzgerald and Kelenna Azubuike have made a name for themselves among basketball fans for all the wrong reasons. Sports media blog Awful Announcing published a ranking of all 30 broadcast teams around the NBA on Wednesday based on a poll of hundreds of fans. Participants assigned teams grades of A through F (skipping E). Coming in at dead last was the Golden State duo. Of the 562 fans that graded Fitzgerald and Azubuike, nearly 60% gave them an F, by far...
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