FOX close on B1G deal

[TrueBlueJay]

The big impact will be I'm sure that some games from the Big Ten will be on Big Fox for basketball.

The ESPN package has been about 5 games a week for basketball. If Fox has half, that would be between 2-3 slots a week.

I bet when your neighborhood friend (I use the term loosely with you) came over with his new bike and said, "look how shiny it is!" you responded back "it's not that shiny, look at those black tires."

[MUPanther]

This is B1G. Legitimizes FS1 as a channel, getting only half means there is plenty of timeslots for Big East and Big Ten games. Watch the ratings soar...

Don't forget 22, Pac-12 basketball games.

[MUPanther]

To put what 50 basketball games looks like on FOX/FS1 if you compare the Pac-12 hoops part. ESPN gets 44 games, FS1 gets 22 and the Pac-12 Networks gets the rest.

[adoraz]

This is huge news and great for the Big East.

[NJRedman]

Hopefully this leads to more BE/B1G OOC games.

[NovaBall]

This is great news for us.

Sure we have to share our platform, but we had a little more than we really should have this whole time and the sharing the platform will help the overall exposure for college hoops on the station. I mean really, a bunch of our games should be on FS2. Many of those early season OOC match ups and most of the DePaul and St. John's games don't belong on the main stations.

For the Big FOX games we usually take the noon slot, will be nice to have them follow us.


Hey, maybe they will even run a ncaa tournament show sometime in the future?

[adoraz]

Stever I see you downplaying this on the conference realignment board. Not quite sure why. This is a major win for the Big East and Fox. Solidifies FS1 as a go to channel for college hoops and will further help improve ratings. Fox only has half the games (not counting BTN games), so there won't be so many games scheduled that it'd take away a significant amount of airtime for the Big East.

We all knew after the rights to the Big Ten it'd be a while before other rights are up for grabs. So what exactly did Fox need from this for it to be good in your book? If they got 100% of the games you'd say that the Big East will be pushed to FS2. If they got none of the games you'd say the channel was doomed. They can't win in your world.

Make no mistake about it, this is a major win for Fox, FS1, the Big East, Big Ten, and everyone involved.

[kmacker69]

Great for ratings, but might be more games pushed to FSN is the only down side I see.

[MUPanther]

Great for ratings, but might be more games pushed to FSN is the only down side I see.

or FS2 and CBSSN.

[GoldenWarrior11]

Boy, how would you feel if you were Florida State, UNC, Virginia, and/or Clemson? Maryland and Rutgers will be receiving over $42 million per year under the new B1G TV deal, and those schools won't even get half that in a given year. Over the course of 10 years, you're looking at a TV-revenue deficit of nearly $200 million. One would think that this could be the prologue of a UNC/Virginia/Georgia Tech/FSU defection to the B1G, and a NCST/VT move to the SEC.