Value of CUSA TV Contract Per School

[PonySnob]

Has it been published anywhere as the the amount of money that CUSA schools get from the television contracts that the league has?

[Stallion]

Yeah I read it somewhere yesterday. My impression was that it was about 1-1.2 Million per school cause I remember thinking UT was getting about 25 times more than CUSA teams

[smupony94]

We need to form our own network

[Dooby]

I haven't looked into it. Is the MWC network profitable?

Edit: No coverage on nation's two largest cable providers or U-verse or Fios or Dish Network. It is on DirecTV however. I am not sure how that can be financially effective. Boise doesn't help much.

[planoponyfan]

The mtn is a total disaster. DirecTV carries it and I think Charter has it in Fort Worth.
USDTV had it too, but that service never had many subscribers and is now dead.
CUSA might do better, but I doubt it.

The mtn should be a huge warning for UT. Starting a new network is extremely difficult.
Getting cable companies to carry it is a lot harder than many think. The NFL learned that the hard way too.

What you have is organizations like UT and the NFL with huge egos who think people will beat down their door for their cable network and do just whatever they say or pay whatever they say to carry it. It just doesn't work that way. The cable companies don't have a lot of room on their systems and they sure don't want to pay a high per-subscriber fee for a brand new channel.

UT thinks its going to get 3 million a year from a cable channel. I think they'll be lucky to get half that. I will laugh so hard when that happens.

[smupony94]

a couple of hundred thousand subscribe to BEVO On Demand so I bet they won't have a problem.

[Pony ^]

I think Texas will do just fine with their own network. 2nd biggest school in the nation and plenty of great athletic teams

[Garret]

Has it been published anywhere as the the amount of money that CUSA schools get from the television contracts that the league has?

I've been trying to keep track of everything in one spot.

C-USA: $11.3 million per year, $0.9 million per school
MWC: $12 million per year, $1.3 million per school
WAC: $4 million per year, $0.45 million per school
SEC: $17 million per school
Big 10: $22 million per school with expected increases every year
ACC: $12.9 million per school

http://uhwarriorquotes.blogspot.com/2010/02/notes-about-how-much-tv-money-each-d-ia.html

http://www.byucougs.com/2009/10/updated-comparison-of-conference-tv.html

[smupony94]

No Sun Belt network?

[planoponyfan]

[quote="smupony94"]a couple of hundred thousand subscribe to BEVO On Demand so I bet they won't have a problem.[/quote]

And where did you get that figure?

Frankly, it does not matter. Cable companies can add dozens or hundreds of "on demand" channels without much difficulty. It's adding an actual live channel that's a problem.

Cable companies have a finite amount of space. Unless they've got unused bandwith, they can't just add something at the drop of a hat.

UT's best bet is to be a premium channel for 5 bucks a month or something. I get the impression that is NOT what they are looking for.

[smupony94]

It was in the Austin American Statesmen.

It is on demand but you have to be a subscriber to get it

$49.99/year

[Mexmustang]

Maybe, there is room for a channel devoted to Texas Colleges and Universities, other than Texas--A union of Tech, A&M, SMU, TCU, Baylor, Rice and Houston might be an intesting opportunity (maybe to just lose money, but interesting).

[RGV Pony]

Maybe, there is room for a channel devoted to Texas Colleges and Universities, other than Texas--A union of Tech, A&M, SMU, TCU, Baylor, Rice and Houston might be an intesting opportunity (maybe to just lose money, but interesting).

yeah and they could call it Raycom