The settling conference realignment landscape
December 7, 2010 3:51 PM
Big Ten Making Out Like a Fox
Fox outbid ABC/ESPN for the rights to the Big Ten Championship Game and the rights fees apparently are astronomical: $140 million for 6 years, which is an average of around $23 million per year. For comparison's sake, the SEC title game brings in approximately $14 million per year and the Big East football TV contract with ESPN is worth about $13 million per year for all of that conference's games. This single game haul for the Big Ten has paid for the addition of Nebraska by itself and we haven't even gotten to the additional Big Ten Network rights fees and forthcoming increases in the national TV contracts.
frankthetank
Fox outbid ABC/ESPN for the rights to the Big Ten Championship Game and the rights fees apparently are astronomical: $140 million for 6 years, which is an average of around $23 million per year. For comparison's sake, the SEC title game brings in approximately $14 million per year and the Big East football TV contract with ESPN is worth about $13 million per year for all of that conference's games. This single game haul for the Big Ten has paid for the addition of Nebraska by itself and we haven't even gotten to the additional Big Ten Network rights fees and forthcoming increases in the national TV contracts.
frankthetank
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