Sports Business/TV Deals

[cyclo120]

Really thought this was a good/informative discussion regardless of what you think of the people involved they clearly have been involved in important discussions, many that impact ISU athletics.


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[MartyFine]

 

[theshadow]

These are the players. No surprises, other than maybe Turner wanting to get back in to football.

CBS is looking for top-level football games to replace its Saturday afternoon SEC game, which is leaving for ESPN after the 2023 season.

NBC has pushed for a weekly Big Ten game that it can package with Notre Dame for a Saturday doubleheader. NBC has the rights to Notre Dame football through the 2025 season.

ESPN carries more of the top college football games than any other network and wants to keep a piece of the always highly rated Big Ten.

Turner Sports also has expressed interest, though its executives have waited on making a formal pitch until Discovery’s purchase of WarnerMedia passed through regulatory channels. That $43 billion deal became official April 8, and they are expected to meet with the Big Ten in the coming weeks.

On the digital front, Amazon and Apple also have had discussions with the Big Ten. Both digital companies increasingly have been using sports as a way to gain more subscribers for their streaming services. Amazon will carry the NFL’s “Thursday Night Football” exclusively this fall, and Apple just started carrying Friday night MLB games exclusively earlier this month.

 

[1UNI2ISU]

Feels like the outcome is going to be NBC/Peacock getting one game every week for a 5:30 window after Notre Dame and ESPN buying some linear football games and getting ESPN+ content. It's so much easier for the Big Ten to sell streaming rights than to wait on FOX to come up with a viable streaming service.

The Big 12 and Pac12 need to go after CBS hard and to each sell their premier weekly game to CBS/Paramount+.

 

[WhoISthis]

Seems like it’s all in USC’s hands right now.


ESPN losing out on the BIG would allow them to back the truck up and offer USC an independent deal they can’t refuse. SEC money with ND type special treatment.

That likely also makes Oregon, UW etc available to join team ESPN/SEC faction. (Not actually join SEC). Major CFP implications if those leave the “alliance”.

And in that sense $100 million/year offer for USC is cheap.

USC going independent is a death blow to Pac 12. And the Rose Bowl. Which makes it a BIG problem.

The BIG needs to think more than one move out. I think there’s truth to the “all options are on the table” language from USC AD. The BIG has a big reason to roll 6-9 Pac12 teams into its new deal