Semi interesting, the Big 10 leaving ESPN

[57stratdawg]

Not totally, but a portion of it. Probably more insightful to how bad The WorldWide Leader is hurting than anything.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/ct-big-ten-media-rights-20160419-story.html

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

i know many of us hate on ESPN but they are still the bell cow on sports television.

Just ask the Big East and Villanova in basketball this season. I know the Big 10 is a different animal but I think it still hold true.

 

[patdog]

Fox has acquired a lot of big sporting events in the last few years. Shame they do such a terrible job broadcasting them. Don't really care about what network the Big 10 is on, but this opens up one more 11:00 time slot for SEC football, so that's not good.

 

[wtw2400]

ESPN has been a liberal melting pot for the past few years. Its about time that the Big Ten gets some "courage" by leaving ESPN to Fox. This almost levies the field with ESPN considering the fact that ESPN primarilly only has college sports. Fox has MLB. NBC Fox or CBS have NFL. NBC has hockey. Fox has World Cup. NBC has Olympics. CBS has NCAA Tournament. So what does that leave ESPN? Well ABC has the NBA Finals(but TNT also has their fair share of playoff games). And ESPN also has the College Football Playoff which is losing ratings because of the dumb exectuitves who are stubborn to put it on New Years Eve which only hurts ESPN. Beyond that the channel only has regular season games which only football gets the views beyond us hardcore college sports fans which I am one of. But even CBS gets the top SEC game so its not like ESPN has this entire domination. They charge the most and are losing the most now that Cable TV is losing traction. Thats why FOX has been growing. This only proves that FOX is getting stronger and may surpass ESPN in the next 5 years as they are getting the sports programming and the ESPN analyists to back it up. Its similar to when FBN started and took a lot of the CNBC anchors and they are probaly about even now.

 

[KeyserSoze1999]

The B1G is downing some Viagra, putting on some Al Green, and getting ready to screw someone---and it might be Fox.

According to the article Fox is getting 25 Football games & 50 Basketball games for $250 million price tag. Then the B1G will take their remaining games (about half) and auction them off to the remaining highest bidder (CBS, ABC, ESPN, etc.)

What if the B1G screws Fox? What if Fox pays $250 for Northwestern vs. Purdue and Rutgers vs. Illinois---while the B1G auctions off Michigan vs. Ohio St. and Michigan State vs. Wisconsin to the highest bidder?

What if the B1G screws the auction folks? Say Fox gets Ohio State vs. Michigan and the other big match ups and then auction the lesser games? You have to believe the B1G is gonna want about $100 million for the lesser games---which would be what ESPN was paying for the whole B1G package just a few years ago.

Overall this is a way for the B1G to make more money, but on the other hand this is a good way for the B1G to make a few enemies in the media.

 

[121Josey]

*Yawn* Wake me up when Clay Travis writes an article about how Fox Sports is reconnecting with the "cord cutters".

 

[121Josey]

What if the B1G screws Fox? What if Fox pays $250 for Northwestern vs. Purdue and Rutgers vs. Illinois---while the B1G auctions off Michigan vs. Ohio St. and Michigan State vs. Wisconsin to the highest bidder?

Fox will get the first choice (or best games) every week, like CBS for SEC. The other (junk) games will be on the B1G Network.

 

[engie]

Fox will get the first choice (or best games) every week, like CBS for SEC. The other (junk) games will be on the B1G Network.

This highlights just how bad our CBS deal is in hindsight. They pay for a total season about what the SEC Championship Game is worth in today's market...

When they refused to budge on price in the realignment look-in, long after the dust had settled and everyone saw the highway robbery that was that contract, it's pretty safe to guess the SEC will be done with CBS after this current contract runs out in 23/24.

 

[AROB44]

ESPN has been a liberal melting pot for the past few years. Its about time that the Big Ten gets some "courage" by leaving ESPN to Fox. This almost levies the field with ESPN considering the fact that ESPN primarilly only has college sports. Fox has MLB. NBC Fox or CBS have NFL. NBC has hockey. Fox has World Cup. NBC has Olympics. CBS has NCAA Tournament. So what does that leave ESPN? Well ABC has the NBA Finals(but TNT also has their fair share of playoff games). And ESPN also has the College Football Playoff which is losing ratings because of the dumb exectuitves who are stubborn to put it on New Years Eve which only hurts ESPN. Beyond that the channel only has regular season games which only football gets the views beyond us hardcore college sports fans which I am one of. But even CBS gets the top SEC game so its not like ESPN has this entire domination. They charge the most and are losing the most now that Cable TV is losing traction. Thats why FOX has been growing. This only proves that FOX is getting stronger and may surpass ESPN in the next 5 years as they are getting the sports programming and the ESPN analyists to back it up. Its similar to when FBN started and took a lot of the CNBC anchors and they are probaly about even now.

Huh? How does politics get into this?

 

[121Josey]

Huh? How does politics get into this?

MSNBC fired Olbermann, then ESPN hired fired Olbermann. From sports to politics to sports to politics: it's the circus, the circus of life.**

 

[seshomoru]

They're like the only channel that didn't host a Republican Debate. Bias!

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