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Country-Wide Basketball League
{{Infobox sports league
| title          = Countrywide Basketball League (CWBL)
| current_season = 
| logo           = Country-Wide Basketball League logo.jpg
| pixels         = 175px
| caption        = 
| sport          = [[Basketball]]
| founded        = 2016
| folded         = 
| inaugural      = 
| commissioner   = Pablo De Borja
| president      = Rey Gamboa
| fame           = 
| motto          = 
| teams          = 6
| country        = {{PHL}}
| continent      = [[FIBA Asia]] ([[Asia]])
| champion       = 
| most_champs    = 
| singles        = 
| TV             = 
| website        = 
}}

The '''Countrywide Basketball League''' or the '''CWBL''' was a planned regional [[basketball]] league in the [[Philippines]].<ref name = "CWBL 2017">  {{ cite news |last1=Yalung |first1=Bryan |title=CWBL plans to finally roll in 2017 |url=http://sports.mb.com.ph/2017/08/23/cwbl-plans-to-finally-roll-in-2017/ |date=August 23, 2017|publisher=[[Manila Bulletin]]|accessdate=November 21, 2017 }}  </ref>

==Background==
On July 2016, it was announced that the planned first conference of the Countrywide Basketball League, which was tentatively set on August 7, 2016, has been cancelled after broadcast partner [[ABS-CBN Corporation|ABS-CBN]]'s withdrawal of support, due to financial difficulties, according to CWBL vice president of operations Joe Lipa.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/97377/cwbl-cancelled|title=CWBL CANCELLED|publisher=Cebu Daily News|last=Panerio|first=Jonas N.|date=July 8, 2016|accessdate=July 8, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.spin.ph/basketball/news/regional-league-cwbl-forced-to-cancel-opening-after-pullout-of-tv-coveror-abs-cbn|title=Regional league CWBL forced to cancel opening after pullout of TV coveror ABS-CBN|publisher=[[Sports Interactive Network Philippines]]|last=Badua|first=Snow|date=July 9, 2016|accessdate=July 9, 2016}}</ref>

On August 2017, it was announced that the league will push through with their launch by January 2018..<ref name = "CWBL 2017"/> Preparations for the league's opening was stalled as most teams that intended to join the CWBL moved to the [[National Basketball League (Philippines)|National Basketball League]].

==Media coverage==
Before the league's cancellation in 2016, CWBL chairman, Rey Gamboa, stated that the coverage of the games was to focus on localities. The league was supposed to be exclusively covered by [[ABS-CBN Sports]] to aired live coverage on [[ABS-CBN Sports+Action]] and its regional counterparts with telecast nationwide and all [[List of ABS-CBN Corporation channels and stations|ABS-CBN Regional Network Group]] stations. ⏎
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==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Basketball in the Philippines}}
{{Sports leagues in the Philippines}}

[[Category:Defunct basketball leagues in the Philippines]]
[[Category:Cancelled sports events]]