MIES (Switzerland) - Long-running, official television series FIBA World Basketball has surpassed the 1,000-episode mark, making it the longest-running official weekly magazine show of any sport.
The program is produced and distributed by international sports content company Inverleigh on behalf of FIBA. It first aired in January 2006 and since then, a new half-hour episode has been delivered to broadcast partners globally for over 1,000 consecutive weeks.
FIBA World Basketball was created to provide basketball fans the chance to access highlights and features from basketball played at the top level all over the world, at a time when YouTube didn’t yet exist.
The program’s content includes action from the FIBA Basketball World Cups, the FIBA Continental Cups, FIBA 3X3 events, as well as key regional and national leagues, while utilizing historic footage from the FIBA archive.
FIBA World Basketball has been a long-standing feature within the schedules of more than 120 global broadcasters over the past two decades, with partners including ESPN, DAZN, DirecTV Latin America, Fox Sports, Astro Malaysia, Abu Dhabi Sports, SuperSport South Africa, FanDuel, Cosmote Greece, SporTV Portugal, Cignal TV Philippines, Starhub Singapore, Flow Sports Caribbean and many more.
The show can also be seen worldwide on FIBA’s media platforms including Courtside 1891 TV, and Inverleigh’s own linear sports channel, Unbeaten.
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