The ABA and media deals - stop me if you've heard this before...

[ABARedWhiteBlue]

http://www.oursportscentral.com/services/releases/?id=2708734

CC: You've stated numerous times that the ABA would be on television this season. Any progress in this endeavor? Will it be televised locally or nationally?

JN: "The ABA will be on TV nationally this season. Several of the teams will be on locally this season. Announcements for both will be forthcoming." - January, 2002

http://www.neulion.com/news/2007/ABA_02112007.pdf
IPTV service provider NeuLion and The American Basketball
Association (ABA), announce a new partnership to deliver live games and consumer driven video on demand using NeuLion’s iPTV service directly to consumers’ television sets. - December, 2007

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200705/ai_n19162811

The American Basketball Association (ABA) (OTCBB: ABKB) and Caricom, a Toronto-based media company, have joined together to create ABA Media, a company whose goal is to maximize the potential of a variety of media opportunities for the league including television, radio, web streaming, podcasting, SMS and other technologies. May, 2007

http://sec.edgar-online.com/2004/05/04/0001047469-04-015641/Section58.asp

It is agreed that ABA and PMW will form a Limited Liability Company (LLP) to
produce the motion picture currently known as "The Shock". February, 2004

http://www.realitytvmagazine.com/blog/2005/07/14/american-basketball-association-announces-reality-tv-plans/

The American Basketball Association (ABA) announced that it has entered into a partnership with Summer Pix/Valorem Group and Prestige Promotions to create an exciting new reality TV show. July 2005

and so on...

http://www4.oursportscentral.com/boards/showthread.php?t=8418

[Paul S]

That basement office just keeps announcing anything. I think Joe has the mindset that if he sends out a press release people will sit up and take notice. Its to the point now that the only people who remotely pay any attention to press release's from the ABA is on Our Sports Central................and then it gets laughed at.

Not one of these "companies" and newly formed LLC's have ever been heard of before or since.

The best part is when you talk to Joe, he will happily tell you that he runs the whole operation, the entire she-bang out of his basement. Its actually something he is proud of and brags to people about. He thinks it conveys the affordable aspect of the ABA. It doesn't.

[TEN]

Please add the "deal" with Fox Sports Net in 2002 or 03, where the ABA ended the season a month early so FSN could broadcast the ABA Championship Game.


ABA held up their end of the deal...ended the season a month early....always wondered if those season ticket holders got reimbursed for games not played.

Fox Sports Net, however, screwed the ABA over by not holding up their end of the deal.

I have not watched FSN since, because of the way they treated the ABA...

[Sam Hill]

I thought that was the original year, 2000-2001, where they truncated the season for a TV deal. I think they may have done it the second year as well (at least, the season was cut short - I think the second time they said it was because they had great sponsorship and venue opportunities that they couldn't wait for, and they ended up playing the finals in Vegas and Kansas City won in front of about 100 people.

And there was no 2002-2003 season, remember.

Here we go:

"The TV negotiations are going well. The Fox sports rumors are true - we will be announcing the deal before the playoffs."
--- interview on hoopsheaven.com, March 2001.

Then he blamed Mizlou or somebody, who was throwing a wrench into the deal.

[TEN]

I wasn't too sure what year that happened..I just remember that it happened!