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Big 10, Fox nearing agreement on TV rights deal that could be worth $1.5 billion
Posted on 4/20/16 at 10:57 pm
Posted on 4/20/16 at 10:57 pm
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Fox is close to signing a deal that gives it half of the Big Ten’s available media rights package, according to several sources. Deal terms still are flexible – both in terms of money and rights. However, the two sides have agreed on basic terms that will give Fox the rights to around 25 football games and 50 basketball games that it will carry on both the broadcast channel and FS1 starting in the fall of '17. The deal runs six years and could cost Fox as much as $250M per year, depending on the amount of rights the Big Ten conference puts in its second package.
The Fox deal essentially is half of the package of games that had been with ESPN (as part of a 10-year, $1B deal that expires next spring) and CBS (as part of a 6-year, $72M basketball-only deal that also expires next spring). The Big Ten will return to the market to solicit bids on the second half of the package. The conference has the flexibility to allow for another network or two to pick up that half. ESPN will be one of several TV networks engaged for the second half of the Big Ten’s package, along with the usual suspects of CBS, NBC and Turner
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Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:02 pm to Bench McElroy
Big 10 will be forced to play with espn for exposure
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:23 pm to Bench McElroy
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Most-watched games of the 2015 college football season:
1. Michigan State-Ohio State (7.0 rating), 3:30 p.m. ABC, Nov. 21
2. Michigan-Ohio State (6.8), Noon, ABC, Nov. 28
3. Ohio State-Virginia Tech (6.6), 8 p.m., ESPN Sept. 7
4. LSU-Alabama (6.3), 8 p.m., CBS Nov. 7
5. Florida State-Clemson (5.5), 3:30 p.m., ABC Nov. 7
6. Michigan State-Michigan (5.1), 3:30 p.m., ESPN Oct. 17
7. Oregon-Michigan State (5.0), 8 p.m., ABC Sept. 12
8. Notre Dame-Clemson (4.8), 8 p.m., ABC Oct. 3
Midwest teams still move the dial because of gigantic alums and history...regardless of performance...most of America grew up with them and Pac-Big10 on national TV with ABC since 1966...and Notre Dame's exclusive NBC since 1991.
SEC has current cache...but most of America didn't grow up with them on the college football national game of the week with Keith Jackson like the Big10 and Big 8 and Pac-10 did.
CBS was fighting against ABC for rights in the 80's and did broadcast ND-Miami, ACC games, Miami-BC. But they got left out quickly.
SEC wasn't national until the late 90's when CBS lost to ABC and re-acquired SEC rights and called it College Football on CBS...before that it was late night SEC on ESPN.
This post was edited on 4/20/16 at 11:25 pm
Posted on 4/20/16 at 11:27 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
The demographics that matter did and are growing up with the SEC so enjoy your decline, big 10
Posted on 4/21/16 at 12:39 am to TH03
Those numbers don't favor in people who watch the games through non-traditional means and since midwest folks typically lag behind on tech, it doesn't surprise me that their favored sons have good ratings, especially when the house of mouse does everything they can to protect those ratings.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 5:49 am to TH03
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so enjoy your decline
That is just slightly comical come from a ND fan.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 5:50 am to The Last Son
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since midwest folks typically lag behind on tech
Compared to who... SEC folk?
Posted on 4/21/16 at 7:03 am to taylork37
Was my thought as well. You know all dem baws in Mississippi, Louisiana and Bama got that there high speed internetz with Hulu and the netflix
Posted on 4/21/16 at 7:26 am to TH03
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so enjoy your decline, big 10
You have no clue what you're talking about. The conference's revenue per school has been sky rocketing and it's showing no signs of slowing down. And this is coming off of a terrible stretch of football for the conference.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 7:34 am to Bench McElroy
So the Big Ten gains Gus and the Fox crew while the SEC is stuck with these two clowns...
Posted on 4/21/16 at 7:54 am to Bench McElroy
Smart move by Fox. If they also can get the basketball, baseball, hockey, and some other sports and then package it. It may blast the SECN away just by volume of subscribers/population.
I would think a lot bigger section of country wants to watch B1G than SEC, just because of fatigue.
ETA:
I mean on weekends use Fox as the main games and use BTN as the secondary games and then weekdays use BTN like they do now with occasional Fox (FS! or 2 at times also) game.
I would think a lot bigger section of country wants to watch B1G than SEC, just because of fatigue.
ETA:
I mean on weekends use Fox as the main games and use BTN as the secondary games and then weekdays use BTN like they do now with occasional Fox (FS! or 2 at times also) game.
This post was edited on 4/21/16 at 7:58 am
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:38 am to Bench McElroy
And yet the player who generate this revenue will not see a dime of it drectly.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:43 am to Bench McElroy
I'm assuming no more Big12 games on fox and FS1? Longhorn network continues to do work.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:50 am to Bench McElroy
SEC made a big mistake with their contract going out till 2030 something.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 8:53 am to jb4
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SEC made a big mistake with their contract going out till 2030 something.
Of course we did. It was overseen by Mike Slive, the worst commissioner in college football history. How he is not hated by every SEC team fan is beyond me.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 9:17 am to jb4
Which is why we will see the conference expand to 16 sooner-than-later.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 9:27 am to SEC. 593
My thinking is...will this deal fuel the next round of conference realignment? This doesn't even factor in how much each B1G school is getting from BTN. You know that schools like Notre Dame, Texas, Oklahoma and even Virginia have to be wondering if the B1G is a better option moving forward. $$$$ makes the world go round and the B1G is raking in more than anybody. Oklahoma has made it public they are not happy with the Big 12 and its finances. I wonder if they will push more aggressively to leave the Big 12? I'll be curious to see how this plays out.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 9:43 am to Bench McElroy
Where is the tipping point here. I mean this deal is 2.5 times better than the one the B1G signed with ESPN last cycle. There has to be a ceiling
Posted on 4/21/16 at 9:58 am to Buckeye06
ESPN is not going to spend a lot of money on what is left over for the Big 10. You have to assume with the money Fox is paying they get first dibs on the games (See Michigan, Ohio State).
But the thing I like that the Big 10 did was keep it at 6 years.
But the thing I like that the Big 10 did was keep it at 6 years.
Posted on 4/21/16 at 10:04 am to Buckeye06
Could be the reason ESPN isn't doing a big 10 deal is they would than need to bump up the SEC deal?
Jon Wilner ?@wilnerhotline Apr 19
seeing report on B1G T1 deal and thinking out loud: for his last act, did mike slive get espn to agree to most favored nation clause?
Jon Wilner ?@wilnerhotline Apr 19
seeing report on B1G T1 deal and thinking out loud: for his last act, did mike slive get espn to agree to most favored nation clause?
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