ESPN & NCAA reach TV contract agreement for many Championships

1UNI2ISU

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Guarantees WBB, VB, Gymnastics and FCS Championship Games on ABC for the next 8 years. That's a nice exposure bump for those sports.

Surprised they didn't shop the women's tourney as a standalone but maybe they weren't going to get the numbers they thought they might.
 
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I believe Ourand or Marchand mentioned something a couple months ago that the NBA TV deal number is going to be lower than expected
The WWE got less than they wanted for SmackDown and Raw is still out there looking for a buyer and ended up sticking NXT on the CW for like half of what USA was paying for it.

The bubble isn't going to pop but I think it's going to deflate a little.
 

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I assume this mean Chuck, Shaq, Ernie and Kenny won't being doing the tourney anymore which sucks balls.