Composer John Tesh published Tuesday that NBC has reached out to him to bring again “Roundball Rock” in anticipation of the league’s return to the community.

With the NBA’s present media rights deal set to expire on the finish of subsequent season, it has begun negotiations to resolve who will carry the rights beginning in 2025. It used to be up to now mentioned that the league would put higher emphasis on streaming, with Amazon the perhaps suitor. Disney will seemingly renew its contract to maintain NBA games on ESPN and ABC.

That leaves one spot final for either Warner Bros. Discovery — the owner of TNT — or NBC.

Contemporary stories indicate that NBC will location a bid of $2.5 billion annually, greater than twice the associated fee Warner Bros. Discovery paid within the closing deal.

Now, Tesh plans on re-recording NBA on NBC’s iconic theme.

“They have got, in truth,” Tesh stated when Dan Le Batard requested if the network reached out to him. “Nothing firm, but they mentioned, ‘Hi there, can you stay frosty on this?’ like a Navy SEALs thing… We’re in truth speaking right now about licensing it to them for the Olympics in Paris, which is all the time great. So we’re actually going in — on the finish of June, we’re heading to Nashville. We got a full orchestra on hold. We’re gonna re-document. I think it still sounds nice, however I wished to make a number of modifications, maybe open up the center. Maybe we’ll send it to you guys. which You could turn it into an EDM monitor.”

Although NBC is the frontrunner to land the final spot, TNT isn’t totally out of it. Consistent with a record from Entrance Place of business Sports activities, neither Amazon nor NBC have made reliable offers. Additionally, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav has previously said his firm has the correct to match any offer from its rivals.

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