FOX close on B1G deal

[stever20]

ESPN aired last year about 5 games a week in conference play. So half of that is between 2-3 games a week. means some weeks FS1 would only air 2 games. so yes, that is a difference vs 4 games like I was saying.

[ecasadoSBU]

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.

It's a bit disturbing that Rutgers is getting that kind of money. In 11 years of living in Manhattan I think I've met one guy who cares about Rutgers football (and that was when they had Ray Rice - I'm guessing he no longer cares).

You do realize the get 48-50k every football game?

That's pretty solid for a crappy program. They do have a lot of interest for Rutgers football. If they had a decent team they can draw a lot. New Jersey is not like NYC. They are willing to rally behind a college football team

[ecasadoSBU]

What a great news for College basketball. The wealth keeps spreading!! This is only good for CBB. ESPN is no longer the only player. Fox is the only Network that is genuinely trying to fight compete directly against ESPN and that is great. CBB has suffered a lot by only having one Network own all the rights. As CBB spreads out the networks will be forced to cover the programs fairly even when they don't own the rights.

FS1 is awesome!

[ecasadoSBU]

It's one thing to be an ACC team and be behind Rutgers and Maryland (a former conference mate) in TV revenue; it's another thing entirely to be UConn (and be a part of the American TV deal) and see Rutgers receiving close to $50 million more per year under the B1G Fox/eventual NBC deal.

The gap between the schools of power conferences and those of that from the Group of 5 schools is getting larger and larger each year. Other than Utah and TCU, no school from a non-power conference was "called-up" to the power conference-level - and those two schools brought consistent winning programs, won big BCS games before being invited, and finished a season in the top-5. No Group of 5 school, other than Boise State, has ever accomplished that feat.

I know the subject of UConn is a touchy one around here, and I'm not pushing one way or the other, but I just don't see how they will be able to continue to compete in football when all of their regional rivals are getting tens of millions of dollars annually and they are only getting pennies compared to them. Over the course of a 10-year stretch, that really adds up (literally).

Leave Connecticut alone!!!! lol

they wont drop football. end of story

Go Huskies!

[NovaBall]

When it looked like big ten was not going to fix Stever acting like it was a horrible thing for us and that we needed the big ten. Now that we have the big ten in the fold, he flips. Amazing.

[NovaBall]

Lived in NYC for a decade. Never once met a Rutgers fan. They don't really exist outside of new jersey turnpike rest stops.

[DudeAnon]

250 mil for 25 college football games and 50 cbb games. If we guess that each cfb game is worth about 2 cbb games. That means that fox paid 2.5 million for each Big 10 basketball game. How is that even possible? That seems ridiculous.

[ChelseaFriar]

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.

It's a bit disturbing that Rutgers is getting that kind of money. In 11 years of living in Manhattan I think I've met one guy who cares about Rutgers football (and that was when they had Ray Rice - I'm guessing he no longer cares).

You do realize the get 48-50k every football game?

That's pretty solid for a crappy program. They do have a lot of interest for Rutgers football. If they had a decent team they can draw a lot. New Jersey is not like NYC. They are willing to rally behind a college football team

No, as I mentioned earlier I didn't realize much about the support for Rutgers football. Just going off the fact that I've lived and worked in Manhattan for over 11 years, and I go out a lot and hang out with sports fans, and I only heard about them when they had Ray Rice. But I was obviously wrong, and it sounds like they get plenty of support in NJ.

Attendance matters but the B1G signed them for NY/NJ Metro TV ratings, not stadium attendance. But another poster mentioned that they draw solid ratings too so I would have been wrong on that guess as well.

[gtmoBlue]

250 mil for 25 college football games and 50 cbb games. If we guess that each cfb game is worth about 2 cbb games. That means that fox paid 2.5 million for each Big 10 basketball game. How is that even possible? That seems ridiculous.

Well those figures are still up in the air - are/were guesstimates, not hard figures. The other half will be negotiated and the spread of content has not been fleshed out yet. Chances are that a partnership of TNT/CBS or individually NBC, CBS, or TNT get the other half. I'm guessing the Big will get double the value to $2 billion for the TV half, possibly less as it is only a 6 year deal. The networks will pay, but not anywhere close to Delaney's desire for $4 billion.

Delaney is on record of promising his folks a $4 billion 1st tier TV deal. So by breaking up the package into 2 pieces, plus a digital piece - he is attempting to up the ante. The whole enchilada last go round was $1 billion (for the tv 50% piece) over 10 years. BTN is the other half and already belongs to the B1G and Fox (Fox 51%). Should be interesting...and is the only negotiation due for several years.

[MUPanther]

Most of the games FS1 picks for the hoops part of the 50 games, will be conference games, just like their Pac-12 deal they pick.