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Big 10 Finalized Media Rights Deal

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-The league unveiled seven-year agreements with Fox/FS1, CBS, NBC and the Big Ten Network, which will take the Big Ten through the 2029-30 academic year. The conference also announced a deal with Peacock, the direct-to-consumer streaming platform from NBCUniversal. Peacock will exclusively stream four conference football games per year in addition to four nonconference games involving Big Ten teams.

-CBS and NBC are each paying around $350 million per year for their Big Ten packages, and sources said that the Big Ten’s new rights agreements are worth more than $7 billion over the seven-year term. That would make it the largest rights deal ever for a college athletic conference. Each contract is for seven years, which means the Big Ten will go to market again before the SEC’s new contract with ESPN expires in 2034.

-Fox landed the Big Ten’s premier package of games, which it will carry in the noon ET window. Starting in 2024, CBS will broadcast a Big Ten game at 3:30 p.m. ET, followed by a Big Ten game on NBC in primetime. Fox has increased its number of top selections in the football games draft in addition to maintaining the first overall selection for the next seven years; Fox will also broadcast four Big Ten championship games during the term.

-The deal is backloaded: CBS will not carry as many games in 2023 as it will for the duration of the contract, so the network will pay more in later years, and USC and UCLA will not join the Big Ten until 2024, so the added payments from then on reflect the increase in inventory.

-CBS, FOX and NBC will each televise designated Big Ten football championship games during the term of the agreements. Fox will broadcast the league’s title game in the odd years (2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029), while CBS will broadcast it in 2024 and 2028, and NBC will air it in 2026.

-Fox/FS1 will carry up to 27 regular-season football games in 2023, then up to 32 games per year from 2024 onward. BTN will broadcast up to 41 games in 2023 and a maximum of 50 games per year afterward.

-NBC will broadcast 16 regular-season Big Ten games in 2023 and then 15 games per year from 2024 onward. Games on NBC will simultaneously stream on Peacock. NBC will carry a primetime game on Black Friday as well.

-Because the SEC will remain on CBS through the end of the 2023 season, the Big Ten will have a partial schedule on the network its first year. CBS will carry seven Big Ten football games as well as regular season and postseason men’s basketball as well as, for the first time, the women’s basketball tournament final. Starting in 2024, CBS will broadcast up to 15 Big Ten football games per season, including an afternoon game on Black Friday. All of those games will be broadcast on CBS, and every game CBS airs will also stream on Paramount+.


The 2024 season will also mark a historic first: The first time in 40 years that ESPN will not broadcast home Big Ten football and basketball games. The network pulled out of its negotiations with the Big Ten after saying no to the conference’s final offer of a seven-year deal worth $380 million per year.
ESPN’s exclusive 10-year deal with the SEC, starting in 2024-25, is believed to be in the $300 million per year range. That deal includes both 3:30 p.m. ET and primetime windows for the conference’s premier games.
 
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Sign deals that are 6-10 yrs; I live by that standard. Preferably 8, but no more than 10. Any deal on any level over 10 yrs is Suicide, unless it’s just the biggest sweetheart deal in ur favor w/ escalators.

Smart, smart, SMART move on the B1G & these networks. If the B1G becomes a juggernaut money making product, both parties benefit at renegotiations; if it winds up being a disaster, the networks have tangible evidence to reset the bar.
 
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ND needs to go ahead and join BIG 10

If Peacock maintains Premier League games, very attractive streaming service for sports fans. NBC and ESPN definitely come out the winners IMO. Wonder if PAC and ACC join forces and contract w/ Apple TV or Amazon TV

If BIG10 and SEC teams start divvying up some of this TV contract money to players, ACC and PAC are really dead
 
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RedPill Stepdad said:
so they’re out of their new deal before we even get out of our old one? sheesh
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The ACC needs to get out of their **** deal or we need to bounce.. WTF is the ACC doing, do they not have any attorneys tryna GTFO of that crappy deal.. Do they even care if conference fails?!
 
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If these Big Ten schools don't significantly increase their football spending they should be kicked out the league. No reason that they should have only 3 schools in the top 25 recruiting regularly with the piles of cash they been and about to get. And only one school that recruit at a playoff level consistently.

I maintain i would rather go to the Big Ten. Don't care about the weather and none of that. Adding Florida would cover the Big Coast to coast and even though the SEC has more power schools, they remain a regional conference. Eventually that max out with how they are squeezing out money in these deals
 
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