This is a sports broadcasting contract in the Philippines . There are four major local producers of sports programs in the country: Sports Sun, ABS-CBN (ABS-CBN Sports), GMA Networks, and TV5 (ESPN 5).
Surya aired a sports program on the Solar Sports cable channel. It is the official broadcast partner of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics (the latter also broadcast on TV5, AksyonTV and Cignal-owned Hyper under the Sports5 brand) and FIBA ââWorld Cup Basketball and qualifying matches until 2015, when both the contract event was moved to Sports5.
ABS-CBN broadcasts its sports program on UHF ABS-CBN Sports Action and its HD-simulcast channel ABS-CBN Sports Action HD. It also aired the boxing match of choice at its flagship station, VHF Channel 2, especially Pacquiao's match before Solar regained its right. It is also a broadcasting partner of UAAP and NCAA, whose main activities include men's basketball and women's volleyball among others.
Solar also holds the rights to the National Basketball Association. Currently, he airs most of the NBA games and programs on Basketball TV and NBA Premium TV. His free-to-air rights are ABS-CBN Sports, airing several regular-season games, the NBA All-Star Weekend, several NBA playoff games, the entire NBA Finals Conference and the NBA Finals. This works the same as WNBA.
Sports5, TV5 sports currently has rights to the Philippine Basketball Association, the Ultimate Fighting Championship, WWE and FIBA âârelated events, which includes FIBA's Basketball World Cup and qualifying matches.
Foreign sports in addition to the NBA aired, but on cable channels, mainly Solar, Fox Sports channels (Fox Sports 2 and Fox Sports 3) and various sports channels such as BeIN Sports and Setenta Sports. Sports Illustrated TV (formerly All Sports Network) also airs its overseas sports program, most of which get rights to National Hockey League, National Football League, NASCAR Xfinity and World Truck Camping Series.
Video Sports broadcasting contracts in the Philippines
Local sports
Basketball
- PBA: ESPN 5: TV5 (free TV), Rush PBA (cable)
- PBA D League: ESPN 5: AksyonTV (free TV), PBA Rush cable (cable)
- PCC: ABS-CBN Sports: ABS-CBN Sports Action
- Filoil Flying V Preseason Cup: ABS-CBN Sports: ABS-CBN Sports Action
- UAAP: Sports ABS-CBN: ABS-CBN (Final only), Sports ABS CBN Action
- NCAA: ABS-CBN Sports: ABS-CBN (Final from 2015 only), ABS-CBN Sports Action
Boxing
- Manny Pacquiao fight (with ALV Events International): GMA (free TV, slightly delayed), Sky PPV (pay-per-view), Radio GMA (radio)
- Laban ng Lahi bouts: GMA (free TV)
- Pinoy Pride Fight (with ALA Promotion): ABS-CBN Sports: ABS-CBN, ABS-CBN Sports Action
- Top Rated * Fight: Sports ABS-CBN: ABS-CBN Sports Actions
- World Class Boxing Contest (with Male Gold Promotion): TV5, AksyonTV (free TV), Solar Sports (cable),
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