Sources suggest that if NBC, which is desperate for sports inventory, signs a TV contract with the conference, it would be willing to pay the Big East football teams $10 milllion apiece and throw in an additional $4 million for the 16 basketball schools. One of the network’s ideas may be to run a full day of Big East football, along with Notre Dame home games, from noon to midnight Saturdays on either NBC or its still-growing cable channel.
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Re: BE / NBC
Who's the other bidder? NBC won't pay more than they need to.
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$14M is nice, but an all-day, all-access football network alternative to ESPN/ABC will be very successful. The Big East and NBC need to create their own wind here and match or beat the ESPN/B12 contract. Get people talking about the Big East as viable again and about NBC as a real college contender. Does NBC want to tip-toe here or do they want to play ball?