A highlights show on TV Africa
In 2009, Ghana basketball had its own television program. Basketball TV was a seasonal show built around the competitions organized by Rite Multimedia, and it went out on TV Africa, a Ghanaian station that could also be received by satellite outside the country.
The first season was a 30-minute production. It aired between 10 June and 9 September 2009 and showed highlights of the first Community Dunks, an inter-communities competition that pitted teams from Accra neighborhoods such as Dansoman, La, James Town and Adabraka against each other in later editions.
Sprite Ball on Sunday mornings
The second season doubled the running time. Each episode lasted an hour, and the show moved to a weekly slot from 8 November to 27 December 2009, broadcast on Sunday mornings between 10:30 and 11:30 GMT. Its subject was the 2009 Sprite Ball championship, the inter-high schools competition that was already the most prestigious event in Ghanaian school basketball.
A third season was announced around the first Universities and Colleges Basketball Championship, planned for January to April 2010. Video sections for Community Dunks, Junior Ball, Sprite Ball, the universities championship and Legon Dunks ran alongside the show. Five separate competitions, each with its own footage, gives a fair picture of how busy Ghanaian basketball was at the end of the decade, from the junior level up to the campus game at the University of Ghana in Legon.
How Ghana watches the continent now
The question Basketball TV answered in 2009, where can a fan see the game, has a different answer today. Most of it runs through two organizations: FIBA, which governs national-team basketball, and the Basketball Africa League, the club competition run jointly by the NBA and FIBA.
For a fan in Accra, Kumasi or Takoradi, the routes are mostly online, because neither organization named a Ghanaian TV partner for its most recent major events.
FIBA competitions on Courtside 1891
FIBA launched its own streaming service, Courtside 1891, in February 2022, replacing the older LiveBasketball.tv. The first major event on it was the February 2022 window of the qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup, and it has since become FIBA's main platform for live national-team games and extended highlights.
For AfroBasket 2025, played from 12 to 24 August in Angola, FIBA listed Courtside 1891 for live streams, with two conditions: a paid subscription, and local restrictions where a TV partner holds the rights. Its list of national rightsholders named StarTimes, Canal+ and beIN Sports for a set of countries across the continent. Ghana was not on that list. The same arrangement applied to the 2025 Women's AfroBasket in Abidjan, which FIBA described as covered by Courtside 1891 for live video and highlights.
| Competition | Main route for viewers in Ghana |
|---|---|
| AfroBasket and its qualifiers | Courtside 1891 (subscription, local restrictions apply) |
| Women's AfroBasket | Courtside 1891 |
| Basketball Africa League | NBA App and NBA.com; Canal+ in parts of Africa |
The Basketball Africa League
The BAL is the easiest of the big competitions to find. For the 2025 season, the league said its games would reach 214 countries and territories in 17 languages, and that live streams would run on the NBA App, NBA.com, BAL.NBA.com and the BAL's YouTube channel.
The sixth season tipped off on 27 March 2026 at the SunBet Arena in Pretoria. For that season, the league named Canal+ as its returning pan-African TV partner, with national broadcasters in Rwanda, Senegal and Morocco, and live streaming on the NBA App and NBA.com for viewers signed in with an NBA ID. Its release did not name a Ghanaian channel.
Four cities, one app
The 2025 BAL season showed why the streams matter. The group phase moved between three cities: Rabat hosted the Kalahari Conference from 5 to 13 April, Dakar the Sahara Conference from 26 April to 4 May, and Kigali the Nile Conference from 17 to 25 May. The playoffs and finals followed in Pretoria, South Africa, with the trophy decided on 14 June.
The livestreams on the NBA App and the league's own website covered the season from Rabat to Pretoria, so a phone was enough to follow every stop from Ghana.
Courtside 1891 beyond FIBA's own site
FIBA has also pushed its service through larger partners. For the 2023 World Cup, the NBA App and NBA.com carried Courtside 1891, and in February 2024 DAZN agreed to offer Courtside 1891 content as well. In practice, a viewer in Ghana can reach the same FIBA games through more than one subscription.
Anyone looking for a specific match should check the competition's own game page a few days ahead. FIBA itself warns that not every broadcaster shows every game, and live streams on Courtside 1891 remain subject to local restrictions.