With the season fast approaching, the next major domino fall in college football won’t be the outcome of the Week 1 game between Oregon and Georgia., Texas Alabama in Week 2, or any other field contest. Here are the details of the upcoming Big Ten TV deal.
on thursday front office sports Big Ten reportedly expects more than $1.5 billion a year in its next string of TV deals. Fox is already heavily involved in negotiations. In fact, Fox, as the majority owner of BTN, sitting As for negotiating with other networks, consider how much your competitors are willing to pay for Big Ten rights and what games they expect to see in return. Imagine an offensive staff from Michigan attending a defensive conference in Ohio.
Nonetheless, the league, which stretches from the East Coast to the West Coast across brands like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Nebraska, is the crown jewel of any network, and companies other than Fox want to be part of it. In fact, on Wednesday FOS report NBC and CBS may participate. CBS was able to fill the void in the Big Ten Games after losing to ABC/ESPN in the ET SEC Game of the Week at 3:30. Additionally, NBC is said to be eyeing a primetime package, a Saturday night version of the highly successful Sunday night NFL game. (This is all based on the existing Fox big noon kickoff, when Red River Rivals leaves the Big 12, it’s all B1G. )
Commissioner Kevin Warren told Big Ten Media Days that the league expects the deal to close “sooner or later”. Industry insiders expect them by Labor Day .
As a result, CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd reported that Big Ten has decided not to expand at this time. he describe:
After fears sparked last week about the Big Ten’s further expansion, industry sources have indicated that the Big Ten is no longer interested in adding California, Oregon, Stamford and Washington. were hesitant to pay these schools the same amount as the Big Ten schools in the United States ($80 million to $100 million in total revenue).
Here’s the logic: If the Big Ten wanted Oregon, Washington, Stamford, or California….they’re in the Big Ten now.It’s no secret that the Conference is coveting Notre Dame as his 17th member. fictitious 18th memberNotre Dame enters the conference at the proverbial gunpoint, but not right before. Notre Dame is expected to remain independent if allowed to do so.
of FOS The numbers predict that USC and UCLA will expand the Big Ten’s media rights by 50%, thereby pumping money into the joint pockets of the existing 14 schools. Oregon, Washington, California, and Stamford are fine schools in their own right, but they don’t.
So now the focus has shifted to the Pac-10. The meeting is actually in an exclusive negotiating window with ESPN and Fox just nowHowever, industry insiders believe there is a pattern in which meetings are held to see what network inventory remains after the Big 10 has been satisfactorily devoured. If ESPN doesn’t get the rights to the Big Ten, Pac-10 will likely be fine, and Pac-10 After Dark will be the lifeboat that keeps the conference going.If the Big Ten could get a deal with NBC, CBS When ESPN, that’s bad news for Pac-10’s remote headquarters.
As a result, there is a dispute between the Pac-10 and the Big 12.
Rather than coming together as a 24-team entity with teams in all four time zones, the conference played typical college sports, chose to fight to the death It will be FBS’ distant third league after SEC and Big Ten.
We believe the Big 12 are in a better position to survive, but the Pac-10 has the advantage of being next at bat to the Big 10. His Pac-10 contracts with ESPN and Fox expire in 2024, while his Big 12 contracts with the same two networks do not expire until the following year.
