New TV rights deal

[LJay]

Will need a big $$ bump to keep up with the Jones’.

[Jet915]

Will need a big $$ bump to keep up with the Jones’.

Hoping for 8 million per team?

[gtmoBlue]

According to ‘Locked On Uconn’ the per school payouts will be greater than that. $8 million equates to a renewal of $500-550 million over 6 years.

https://x.com/gtmoblue/status/180601643 ... -_yeXYC09Q

[thatoneguy]

I know this is the men's hoops thread, but I really hope this means a lot more women's bb, volleyball, and baseball on these channels as well. Burying wbb on FloSports has just been an awful deal for growing the BIG EAST WBB brand (outside of UConn).

[LJay]

Official. Get ready to speak Peacock y’all.

[cujaysfan]

ND has been putting one or two of their crap games on peacock last few years. Looks like BE is doing the same. I really resent this move to force purchase for an entities best and biggest fans.

I had peacock for awhile included with Comcast and there was minimal worthwhile content and I am not pulling the trigger at $70/year for it as I still don't see value there.

It's a nice quid pro quo for NBC and BE, but I do not care for it.

[TXJaysFan]

I know this is the men's hoops thread, but I really hope this means a lot more women's bb, volleyball, and baseball on these channels as well. Burying wbb on FloSports has just been an awful deal for growing the BIG EAST WBB brand (outside of UConn).

Not sure about the other sports, but the announcement mentioned that Fox guarantees at least 3x as many women's games as before. So that's a start.

I'm hoping this will be the end of Big East and Flo Sports. I'd rather be able to watch on Peacock or whatever.

[NYC-bluejay]

Find it fascinating there are people who have actually given into the peacock extortion.

[Wizard of Westroads]

If you have a Roku account, you can get a one-year Peacock subscription for $19.99, or $1.66 a month. Looks like the offer runs through June of next year.

The extortion begins at $59.99 next June.

[gtmoBlue]

Well folks,

It seems as though every followon article irt the new Big East MR/TV contract is breaking out the conservative numbers that Sportico aired/guessed the other day ($75-80 million/year...$6.8 - $7.2 million/perschool/year). Those numbers equate to less than the 2013 $500 Million. $75M = $450M/over 6 years / $80M = $480M over 6 years. These are conservative estimates which are reasonably reachable in renegotiating with just Fox/CBS. Having upped the ante with bigbucks NBC and TNT (no more NFL for TNT), for top tier AND expanded conference content, Sportico's guesses are continued "Lowballing". I tend to agree with LockedOn Uconn's (BE) estimates (rumored by his sources) of 'closer' to $1Billion over 6 years - meaning significantly more annual bucks than Sportico's meager, lowball guess/estimate. I'm guessing the GW11's take (HLOH member) of $9M - $11M/school/yr; or $600M up to $800M over the 6-year span is closer to the actual terms.

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$500 M, over 6 yrs (rather than 12)-= $83.3M/yr Div by 11= $7.6M/school/yr.

$600M over 6 yrs = $100</yr. $100M div by 11 = $9.1M/school/yr.

$700M over 6 yrs = $116.7M/yr. $116.7M div by 11 = $10.6/school/yr.

$800M over 6 yrs = $133.3M/year. $133.3M div by 11= $12.1M/school/yr.

$900M over 6 yrs = $150M/yr…div by 11 = $13.6M/school/yr.

$1B over 6 yrs = S166.6M/yr. $166.6M div by 11 = $15.2M/school/yr.[/list]


https://www.nbcsports.com/pressbox/pres ... -agreement


As the top basketball conference, the BEast has consistently demonstrated top notch/tier 1 level content in both men's and women's basketball, as well as olympic sports. Four mens; NCAA National Championships, consistent NCAA bids (5 on avg), and improved womens' basketball, all demand top tier compensation. Big East content has been lowballed for well over 12 years now and $450 - 480 million/6 years continues to reflect a 'lowballing' attitude and position. It should also be noted that the conference is talking in terms of "expanded content" for content hungry NBC & TNT. There's the standard expandibility clause in the contract for additional dollars should the conference expand (by taking 3 to 5 ACC leftover teams: Independent Football Notre Dame, Duke, Syracuse...perhaps 1 to 2 others if needed should UConn bail out again. The conference had excellent fiscal & negotiating councel from firms Allen & Company and Proskauer.