Chat transcript from Stern's press conference in London

2009/10/07 01:53:57 @NBA.com: News

Opening Statement: I'm delighted to be here and I thank you all for coming. This is our third year at O2 Arena/ It's a beautiful structure that AEG manages so well, I'm joined here, seeing in the audience Peter Moore of EA Sports the presenting sponsor of this event, and, Peter, I want to thank you and EA for all that you do for us, for basketball and for this event, and I just want to say that we're very excited. I've learned a lot about a lot of things in the past few days and one of the things that makes me happiest is that this game will be carried live on ESPN which has recently agreed to an almost 100-game schedule of NBA games. Not quite the same fanfare as the Premiership contract, but it means that there will be viewers and sign-ups and people will be focusing on the NBA on a regular carriage straight through The Finals. We have also visited with our friends at BBC and I've learned what's behind the red button, and tonight it's this game, live, behind the red button; and this game will also be carried live on Radio 5 live as well as being streamed on BBC.com and back in the states, NBA TV will be showing this and it will be carried in somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 countries, so we're pretty excited about that.
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