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NBA Action is a weekly show with news and highlights of the NBA. The show premiered in 1990 on ESPN. It airs on NBA TV with new episodes at 6:30 ET/5:30 CT every Thursday night during the season.

Features (Not in chronological order)

• Western Conference Team of the Week
• Instant Replay (Weekly NBA News)
• Timeout (Player Features)
• Eastern Conference Team of the Week
• Encore (Showcasing the best plays during the week that didn't make the Courtside Countdown including buzzer beaters, long range shots, alley oops, assists, dunks, circus shots, blocks)
• Spotlight (Special features on players, teams or great moments in the NBA)
• Sounds of the Game
• Courtside Countdown (Showcasing the Top 10 Plays, Dunks, Buzzer Beaters, Assists and Blocks during the week)

Hosts

• Jim Fagan (1990–2004)
• Spero Dedes (2004–2005)
• Ian Eagle (2005–present)
• Rich Ackerman (2003–present; occasional host)

Video games

There was a series of video games released by Sega Sports for the Sega Genesis, Sega Game Gear and Sega Saturn with the name NBA Action.

• NBA Action '94 (Genesis)
• NBA Action '95 (Game Gear and Genesis)
• NBA Action (1996) (Saturn)
• NBA Action 98 (Saturn and PC)

International broadcasts

By region

Latín America

• ESPN
• Fox Sports
• BeIN Sports
• DIRECTV Sports
• Telecanal Plus (Argentina) Saturday at 02:00 pm
• TV CABLE (Ecuador)
• TVC Deportes (México) Friday at 11:00 pm
• Unicanal Plus (Paraguay) Saturday at 02:00 pm
• Telecable TV (Peru) Sunday at 07:00 pm
• VTV Plus (Uruguay) Saturday at 02:00 pm
• Meridiano TV (Venezuela) Sunday at 08:00 pm
• Canal 4 (El Salvador) (Voice-over translation) Thursday at 07:00 pm

Brazil

• ESPN
• Fox Sports
• Rede Record (Sunday at 11:30 pm in Free TV)

Philippines

• ABS-CBN (2018)
• Basketball TV (2006–2019)
• GMA Network (1988–1996)
• IBC (1996–2001, 2002–2004)
• NBA Premium TV (2010–2019)
• NBN (2001–2002)
• S+A (2014–2019)
• Solar TV (2009–2011)
• Studio 23 (2011–2013)

Europe

• Sky Sports (United Kingdom/Ireland)
• C More/TV4 (Sweden) Airs in news and documentary orientated sports channel Sportkanalen
• TV 2 (Denmark)
• Canal+ Premium (Poland)
• ESPN (The Netherlands)
• SportTv (Hungary)

External links

• About the Show

v t e ESPN Inc.
Executives	George Bodenheimer Edwin Durso Chuck Pagano Norby Williamson James Pitaro
U.S. networks	Streaming ESPN+ ESPN3 Venu Sports (33.33%) Linear TV ESPN ESPN2 ESPNU ESPNews Deportes ACC Network SEC Network Part-time ACC Network Xtra ESPN on ABC SEC Network + Radio ESPN Radio Deportes Xtra
International	Canada TSN 1 2 3 4 5 RDS RDS2 RDS Info Animal Planet Discovery Channel Discovery Science Discovery Velocity Japan J Sports (3%) Latin America Panregional ESPN (Latin America) Brazil ESPN (Brazil) Caribbean ESPN Caribbean Netherlands ESPN (Netherlands) Oceania ESPN Australia Sub-Saharan Africa ESPN Africa
Ventures	ESPN.com ESPN Bet (with Penn Entertainment) ESPN Deportes.com ESPN Broadband ESPN Events ESPN Films ESPN Deportes La Revista ESPN Books ESPY Awards ESPN Integration ESPN PPV
Defunct ventures	Arena Football League (minority stake, 2006–2009) ESPN 3D (2010–2013) ESPN America (2002–2013) ESPN Classic (U.S.) (1995–2021) ESPN Classic (UK) (2006–2013) ESPN Classic Canada (2001–2023) ESPN College Extra (2015–2023) ESPN Full Court (2007–2015) ESPN GamePlan (1992–2015) ESPN Goal Line & Bases Loaded (2010–2020) Grantland (2011–2015) ESPN HS (1997–2012) ESPN The Magazine (1998–2019) ESPN MVP (2005–2006) ESPNscrum (2007–2015) ESPN Star Sports (equity stake, 1996–2012; incl. ESPN Asia (1995–2013)) NHL Network Canada (2001–2015) ESPN5 (2017–2020) WatchESPN (2011–2019) Sony ESPN (2016–2020) ESPN West Longhorn Network (2011–2024) WTSN (2001–2003)
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Owners: Walt Disney Company (80%); Hearst Communications (20%)

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