https://twitter.com/ourand_sbj/status/72...4104916992

More info appears to be forthcoming

NBC get the other half???

(04-19-2016 02:53 PM)PGEMF Wrote:  https://twitter.com/ourand_sbj/status/72...4104916992

More info appears to be forthcoming

So that would look like Fox 50%, BTN 25%, ESPN 25%, something like that.
IDK

It would be 1/2 of what ESPN had before. The Big Ten Network is a separate animal.

It's a GREAT day for amateur sports...

Full story

http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/C...-Ten.aspx?

from Sports business daily:
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.

The second package also is expected to include around 25 football and 50 basketball games. The package also could include rights to the football championship games every other year, though sources caution that the rights in the second package are flexible and could include more – or less – games.

1. $250M for half the package. Ye gods and little fishes.
2. Six year term. That's fairly short as these contracts go.

the thing that sticks out is only a 6 year deal. So they would be the right there when things are opening back up in the early 20's.....

(04-19-2016 02:53 PM)PGEMF Wrote:  https://twitter.com/ourand_sbj/status/72...4104916992

More info appears to be forthcoming

Sports Business Daily link

I have to say I don't quite understand how the money varies. Fox is paying "up to $250M per year", depending on what's in the OTHER package. Wut?

(04-19-2016 03:11 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  1. $250M for half the package. Ye gods and little fishes.
2. Six year term. That's fairly short as these contracts go.

The implication of the SBJ article is that it's a sliding scale - i.e. if other networks end up with not much Big Ten content, then Fox is the big kahuna in the deal and forks over $250MM; if ESPN or others get rights equal or nearly equal to what Fox is getting, then Fox's payment will be much less.

one thing as well- this isn't the manna from Heaven for FS1.
25 football games- half would be games shown on Big Fox. So maybe 1 a week for FS1.
50 basketball games- we're talking when you get all the OOC games maybe like 2-3 a week during conference season for FS1.

Potential of a $1.5 billion deal just for half of the rights.

Am I the only one out there who thinks there is something fundamentally wrong with college athletics when a lot of the press out there is focused on TV contracts and which conference is getting 'paid'? I get it that TV money appears to be the ultimate determinant above anything else at the moment - provided that the geographical fit is good enough - but isn't it beyond tiring to have to think about college athletics with all of this in mind? No one else wish that we could only care about whose on the schedule and is your team prepared to play?

I never thought I would see the day that professional sports are now more honorable and straightforward than the college game. We know what to expect from the pro sports. Unfortunately, college sports tries to fool the consumer into believing the myth that we're watching amateurs and it's all about collegiality. All the pomp, the traditions, the rivalry games??? Who seriously cares anymore? Why would anyone care about that? Really, all college sports (FB and BB) are about is being a conduit to the pro leagues. They are minor league sports. The academic requirements for the athletes are routinely circumvented, lowered and minimized for their primary reason for why they are on campus in the first place - to play ball.

(04-19-2016 03:21 PM)Nebraskafan Wrote:  Potential of a $1.5 billion deal just for half of the rights.

So that is north of 17 Million per university, and the Big has another chunk on the bidding block.

(04-19-2016 03:20 PM)stever20 Wrote:  one thing as well- this isn't the manna from Heaven for FS1.
25 football games- half would be games shown on Big Fox. So maybe 1 a week for FS1.
50 basketball games- we're talking when you get all the OOC games maybe like 2-3 a week during conference season for FS1.

Because we're all just guessing (these details are not in the SBJ report), I'll guess that 15 football games/season (slightly more than one a week) will be on FS1. Fox needs those games for FS1.

Could be 4 hoops games/week on FS1 during conference season. Fox is paying for conference games or the very best non-con games; they're not going to take a big load of weak non-con games like Purdue vs. Central Kalamazoo College on a Tuesday in early December.

http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/C...-Ten.aspx?
clicking on the read full story on the link about. Reveals another nugget I was looking for.

"The conference also is holding back some digital rights that it will offer to digital media companies, sources said. The deal does not include Big Ten Network’s package of rights, which runs to '31-32. Fox already has a relationship with the conference; it owns 51% of BTN."

Hmmm....Boren? Boren?

The AAC, MWC, and BYU win because of this.

All their contracts expire around 2018-2019 time frame. ESPN will be in need of content, even if it still gets the other half of the B1G's available content. And either CBS and NBC will outbid ESPN for the rest of the B1G content, or they will be able to get some decent AAC/MWC/BYU content at a comparative bargain price - which will still be a nice raise for the AAC/MWC/BYU schools.

(04-19-2016 03:30 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(04-19-2016 03:21 PM)Nebraskafan Wrote:  Potential of a $1.5 billion deal just for half of the rights.

So that is north of 17 Million per university, and the Big has another chunk on the bidding block.

So, 34 million for total, but this doesn't include BTN rights? So 34 million + profits from BTN? So 40+ million overall.

Yes, I'd say the Big 10 could grab whoever they wanted from any non-SEC conference.