PBA Rush is a 24/7 exclusive channel of
Cignal, which has been currently airing games of the
Philippine Basketball Association
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines, composed of twelve company-branded Franchising, franchise teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia ...
(PBA). The channel is patterned after
NBA TV
NBA TV is an American sports-oriented pay television network owned by the National Basketball Association (NBA) and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery through TNT Sports. Dedicated to basketball, the network features exhibition, regular se ...
and was launched on July 5, 2016. The 3-year partnership agreement between Cignal and the PBA was signed on July 17, 2016, at the
Smart Araneta Coliseum, 2 days after the opening of the
2016 PBA Governors' Cup
The 2016 Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) Governors' Cup, also known as the 2016 Oppo-PBA Governors' Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the third and last conference of the 2015–16 PBA season. Due to the preparations of the Philippines ...
.
Aside from the live telecast of the PBA games (in English commentary), other programming included in PBA Rush are same-day replays of PBA games (in mostly Tagalog commentary), games from the
PBA D-League,
(also in mostly Tagalog commentary) and behind-the-scenes shows such as Kuwentong Gilas.
The channel currently focuses on the ongoing season and conference.
The channel is aired on Channel 90 in standard definition and Channel 260 in high definition. Some programs of PBA Rush, are also aired international on the
Kapatid Channel and
AksyonTV International.
Currently aired programs
*PBA games*
*PBA D-League games*
*The Chasedown
*Basketball Science
*Basketball Almanac with Lourd de Veyra
*Shootaround
*The Huddle
*StePBAck
*Jumpball
*Numbers
*Hotseat
*Fan Favorites (includes classic PBA games from 1980s to 1990s)
*PBA Classic Games
Special programs
*The Maestro:
Baby Dalupan
See also
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PBA on One Sports
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RPTV
*
One Sports
One Sports (formerly ABC Sports from 2004 to 2008, Sports5 from 2011 to 2017 and ESPN5 from 2017 to 2020) is the sports division of TV5 Network, Inc. and jointly-operated with sister company Cignal TV. One Sports supplies and airs major sp ...
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One Sports+
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Philippine Basketball Association
The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines, composed of twelve company-branded Franchising, franchise teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia ...
*
PBA Developmental League
Notes
(*) also aired on
Kapatid Channel (international) and
AksyonTV International.
References
{{Philippine cable channels
TV5 Network channels
Television networks in the Philippines
English-language television stations in the Philippines
Philippine Basketball Association mass media
Television channels and stations established in 2016
Sports television networks in the Philippines
Cignal TV