ESPN and NBC to strike a joint tv deal wth the Big East

[Cougar King]

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/ 2012/12/10/Media/Sports-Media.aspx

"ESPN and NBC will split a package of Big East games that will pay out around $60 million per year on average.."


This is the same reporter who broke the news on the Sugar Bowl, Rose Bowl and BCS deals. So take it FWIW.

[Water Pony]

The link did not work, but the blogger predicts $60m spilt between ESPN and NBC Sports.

[max the wonder dog]

Is this for football only, or all sports? Someone help me with the math. What will be the payout for football-only, basketball-only, and all sports schools?

[ColoStang]

All sports. But its just a prediction. At this point, the goal is for the deal to be big enough to keep the 7 hoops schools and be the biggest of the non-big five conferences for football.

[Rebel10]

More than the 42.3 million that the Big East is currently getting.

[MustangStealth]

Is this for football only, or all sports? Someone help me with the math. What will be the payout for football-only, basketball-only, and all sports schools?

The contract will be for all sports. Boise State's contract gives them an out if less than 70% of that goes to football members, so that should give you an idea of approximately what the split will be.

[SMU_Alumni11]

Wait is it 120 million divide by 2 or 60 divide by 2? Huge difference. This is very sad though I was hoping fox would add in its share since they've worked with us and had our stampede show... I kind hope this is a low ball number but if true then CBS and Espn were calling it fairly. So what should we expect like 4-6 mil a team?

[Comet]

It's a prediction, and those in the know don't expect this to be done by about March/April anyway. Way too many moving parts for any educated guess to be done right now. Either way, 4-5 million is a big upgrade from CUSA, but we're still ultimately going to be in a completely different class of football than our old rivals.