Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="topdecktiger" data-source="post: 129596754" data-attributes="member: 1459051">No, you are 100% wrong. The Big Ten signed its Tier 2 and Tier 3 rights with Fox/BTN until 2032. The SEC's Tier 1 rights are with CBS, and the Tier 2 rights are with ESPN. Here is a link with the contract the Big Ten signed in 2007, and the SEC signed in 2008.<a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">BIG TEN</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">First-tier rights: $1 billion, ESPN, 10 years through 2016-17</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Second-tier rights: $2.8 billion, Big Ten Network, 25 years through 2031-32</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Select basketball rights (minimum of 24 games, men’s tournament semifinal and championship games): $72 million, CBS, six years through 2016-17</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Football Championship Game: $145 million, FOX, six years through 2016</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Per-year average: $248.2 million</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Per-school, per-year average: $20.7 million</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">SEC</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">First-tier rights: $825 million, CBS, 15 years through 2023-24</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Second-tier rights: $2.25 billion, ESPN, 15 years through 2023-24</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Per-year average: $205 million</a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers"></a><a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/49883/college-tv-rights-deals-undergo-makeovers">Per-school, per-year average: $14.6 million</a>ESPN shows Tier 2 games on the SECN. The Big Ten shows Tier 2 games on BTN. There is not enough content to show 45 games on either network if you are only pulling from Tier 3 and expansion. The majority of games on either network are Tier 2 games.</blockquote>

Name

Disable Video Player

Top Bottom

Texas Tech's Hammond: Doubted by the polls, motivated by his coach and done explaining himself

Kane Wommack spent two years building toward this version of his Alabama defense

SEC roster deadlines loom as programs consider adding former NFL players, class of 2022 recruits

Greg Sankey to attend preliminary injunction hearing in Baton Rouge, may testify

NCAA gives Brendan Sorsby Level III violation in gambling investigation, no punishment levied on Cincinnati

Reply to thread

Latest