BIG 10 network

Which is why everyone talking about ND wanting their exclusive contract with NBC to remain is retarded.

ND's NBC payout= 8/9 million(can't remember which)
Big10 payout=20-22.
Northwestern laughs at ND's TV contract.

The PAC-10 took in $97 million ($9.7 million per team)
The Big East took in $66.6 million ($8.33 million per team)

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Which is why everyone talking about ND wanting their exclusive contract with NBC to remain is retarded.

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I will laugh my arse off when Notre Dame goes to one of the superconferences later on and ask to get in but the commissioner says "Seat's taken!"

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I know for sure the BTN only pulled $66 million in 2008 so don't see how it jumped up that much in a year.

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More viewership probably. I don't think the BTN is a set amount since it is owned by the conference.

I thought every SEC game is covered under the new tv contracts.

BTN was $72 million in 2009. (*sigh*)

The reason the Big Ten Network is such a money machine is that it airs 24/7/365 in 40 million households now. The Big Ten gets a revenue stream year round from advertising, from subscribers whereas the SEC received a contract from ESPN and CBS from what the networks deemed them to be worth when they have a game on.

It would be harder for the SEC to make a national brand network as there are not enough alum spread across the country. I think the Big Ten has something like 4.5 million living alum (more than twice the SEC) many of whom are spread in the largest tv markets in America. The SEC does not have that same national pull. While the country will watch a Florida-LSU game the country isnt going to watch a LSU-La Tech game the way it does an Ohio State-Toledo game.

Also the SEC network was bought out by ESPN. I dont think the SEC can break a 2.25 billion dollar contract.

This is all a numbers game and the Big Ten has won this game by graduating more than twice as many people as any other conference over the decades. Big Ten schools are global institutions while many SEC schools aren't even really national entities.

The Big 10 Network is a huge success. Big 10 fans can watch every single football game and almost every Basketball game in HD without paying for a subscription.

The Big 10 Network makes most of its money from just being added to a cable provider. As they get added to more and more cable providers in new markets, the revenue just keeps going up, which is why they had a huge jump in revenue from the beginning of the network to now. The best thing about the Big 10 network is that there isn't a ceiling on the amount. With the addition of Nebraska, the amount of money will go up per team.