NBA Action

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)