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

• TV5
  • One Sports
• Radio Philippines Network
  • Solar TV
  • CNN Philippines
• GMA Network
• Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation
• People's Television Network
• ABS-CBN
  • Studio 23
  • ABS-CBN Sports+Action
• Basketball TV
  • NBA Premium TV

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