How Much Will TV Contract Go Up With UConn?

[gtmoBlue]

Fellas, fellas. Put down your dueling swords.

Adoraz, glad to see we agree on conf performance. FS viewership has been rising over the entirety of the 6 years, not merely because of the deal with the B1G. People report new numbers all the time in the viewership thread. It is a content driven thing and perhaps a growing number of people finally know the locations of Fox channels on their boxes. Sports viewership is up cause folks love Hannity, yeah right. It's more and better content.

The winter months are Fox's biggest hole on their slate of programming. They still have open slots, even with the addition of the B1G 2 years ago. Given the deals done in 11-13, B12, PAC12, and the initial 2011 offer (the offer they refused) to the BE, all were much sweeter than our half billion deal. Forbes and others stated it was a subpar offer. I submit the Prez's took it without much debate to quickly secure the footing to move ahead with their secession.

Quadruple value...no, but with our performance over the period and the raising of the market bar, at least double. Perhaps with a shorter period, given much will be in flux during the 2025/26 window. But as we have seen a longer deal favors (is cheaper overall) for Fox. I've already said $1.5 B as my figure for our ceiling. Was merely throwing out the 2 billion as a figure to bounce conversations off.

SamElliott, as for the market and what it will bear. Bidding war? No.
1. New market minimums have been established by the deals of B12 / PAC12 in 2012/13 and B1G in 2016/17.
2. Fox in efforts to establish itself and continue growth won't cut content. Efforts to lowball runs the risk of recreating that big hole in their winter lineup. CBS (money issues) could see an opportunity for them to get a bargain in the BE. Frugal NBC is always willing to be a foil by putting up a low counteroffer (the current half billion, or a bit more.)
3. The history of our relationship is good, the conference has exceeded expectations and the future is bright regarding performance, BET, and NCAA participation. Why ruin a great relationship and recreat content issues/problems (lack of content/quality of content) when as an entity, FS is still swimming upstream in reaching their Programming goals.
4. Fox itself is the company most involved in raising the contract costs bar over these last 6-7 years. If they want to continue to grow their sports programs and their viewership, now is not the time to play cheap.

[Django]

Fellas, fellas. Put down your dueling swords.

Adoraz, glad to see we agree on conf performance. FS viewership has been rising over the entirety of the 6 years, not merely because of the deal with the B1G. People report new numbers all the time in the viewership thread. It is a content driven thing and perhaps a growing number of people finally know the locations of Fox channels on their boxes. Sports viewership is up cause folks love Hannity, yeah right. It's more and better content.

The winter months are Fox's biggest hole on their slate of programming. They still have open slots, even with the addition of the B1G 2 years ago. Given the deals done in 11-13, B12, PAC12, and the initial 2011 offer (the offer they refused) to the BE, all were much sweeter than our half billion deal. Forbes and others stated it was a subpar offer. I submit the Prez's took it without much debate to quickly secure the footing to move ahead with their secession.

Quadruple value...no, but with our performance over the period and the raising of the market bar, at least double. Perhaps with a shorter period, given much will be in flux during the 2025/26 window. But as we have seen a longer deal favors (is cheaper overall) for Fox. I've already said $1.5 B as my figure for our ceiling. Was merely throwing out the 2 billion as a figure to bounce conversations off.

SamElliott, as for the market and what it will bear. Bidding war? No.
1. New market minimums have been established by the deals of B12 / PAC12 in 2012/13 and B1G in 2016/17.
2. Fox in efforts to establish itself and continue growth won't cut content. Efforts to lowball runs the risk of recreating that big hole in their winter lineup. CBS (money issues) could see an opportunity for them to get a bargain in the BE. Frugal NBC is always willing to be a foil by putting up a low counteroffer (the current half billion, or a bit more.)
3. The history of our relationship is good, the conference has exceeded expectations and the future is bright regarding performance, BET, and NCAA participation. Why ruin a great relationship and recreat content issues/problems (lack of content/quality of content) when as an entity, FS is still swimming upstream in reaching their Programming goals.
4. Fox itself is the company most involved in raising the contract costs bar over these last 6-7 years. If they want to continue to grow their sports programs and their viewership, now is not the time to play cheap.

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