While it awaits the 2024 arrival of Pac-12 carpetbaggers UCLA and USC, the Big Ten Conference has inked new distribution deals with CBS, Fox, NBC and Peacock. The pacts, which include current partners FS1 and Big Ten Network but drops ESPN/ABC, are the most lucrative in college sports history — valued at nearly 8 billion.
Covering football, women’s and men’s basketball and more, the deals are worth more than 1 billion a year for seven years, kicking in starting July 2023 and running through the 2029-30 season. They will replace current ones estimated to be worth 2.6 billion over six years.
ESPN and ABC, which previously had shared rights to the Big Ten with Fox, bowed out of the renewal and are not in business with the conference for the first time since the 1980s. The Disney-owned networks are more focused on the football-rich SEC and other college conferences.
The deals come...
Covering football, women’s and men’s basketball and more, the deals are worth more than 1 billion a year for seven years, kicking in starting July 2023 and running through the 2029-30 season. They will replace current ones estimated to be worth 2.6 billion over six years.
ESPN and ABC, which previously had shared rights to the Big Ten with Fox, bowed out of the renewal and are not in business with the conference for the first time since the 1980s. The Disney-owned networks are more focused on the football-rich SEC and other college conferences.
The deals come...
- 8/18/2022
- by Erik Pedersen and Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
The Big Ten has inked a long-term media rights deal with three broadcast partners.
The conference has reached seven-year distribution agreements with CBS, Fox, NBC and NBCUniversal’s Peacock to air football, women’s and men’s basketball, and Olympic sports. The agreements will begin July 1, 2023, and run through the 2029-30 season.
The deal is worth nearly 8 billion, per The Hollywood Reporter. Endeavor consulted the Big Ten on the agreement.
“The Big Ten Conference media rights agreements are more than just dollars and deals. They are a mechanism to provide stability and maximum exposure for our student-athletes, member institutions and partners during these uncertain times in collegiate athletics,” Big Ten Conference Commissioner Kevin Warren said in a statement. “We are very grateful to our world-class media partners for recognizing the strength of the Big Ten Conference brand and providing the incredible resources we need for our student-athletes to compete at the very highest levels,...
The conference has reached seven-year distribution agreements with CBS, Fox, NBC and NBCUniversal’s Peacock to air football, women’s and men’s basketball, and Olympic sports. The agreements will begin July 1, 2023, and run through the 2029-30 season.
The deal is worth nearly 8 billion, per The Hollywood Reporter. Endeavor consulted the Big Ten on the agreement.
“The Big Ten Conference media rights agreements are more than just dollars and deals. They are a mechanism to provide stability and maximum exposure for our student-athletes, member institutions and partners during these uncertain times in collegiate athletics,” Big Ten Conference Commissioner Kevin Warren said in a statement. “We are very grateful to our world-class media partners for recognizing the strength of the Big Ten Conference brand and providing the incredible resources we need for our student-athletes to compete at the very highest levels,...
- 8/18/2022
- by Katie Campione
- The Wrap
Games featuring top college-sports draws like Ohio State and Penn State, and, in 2024, USC and UCLA, will appear on properties owned by Fox, NBCU and Paramount Global under a new and lucrative deal struck with the Big Ten conference, underscoring the continuing importance of live sports to the economics of live TV.
The new seven-year deal, which starts in the 2023-2024 season, calls for the three media companies to pay the college conference in excess of 1 billion a year, according to reports. The Big Ten’s previous deals were with Fox and ESPN.
The pact will guarantees the conference TV real estate every weekend of college football season, with games slated to appear on“Big Noon Saturday” at noon; CBS’ 3:30 p.m. offering and a new slot, NBC’s “Big Ten Saturday Night,” in prime time. Streaming rights were also paramount in the discussions: NBCUniversal’s streaming outlet, Peacock,...
The new seven-year deal, which starts in the 2023-2024 season, calls for the three media companies to pay the college conference in excess of 1 billion a year, according to reports. The Big Ten’s previous deals were with Fox and ESPN.
The pact will guarantees the conference TV real estate every weekend of college football season, with games slated to appear on“Big Noon Saturday” at noon; CBS’ 3:30 p.m. offering and a new slot, NBC’s “Big Ten Saturday Night,” in prime time. Streaming rights were also paramount in the discussions: NBCUniversal’s streaming outlet, Peacock,...
- 8/18/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
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The Big Ten has found three big broadcast partners for its new long-term media rights deal, one that will give the athletic conference nearly 8 billion dollars through the 2029-2030 season.
CBS, NBC and Fox will be the Big Ten’s media partners, with games set to air on the broadcast networks, FS1 and the Big Ten Network. NBCU’s Peacock will also get a handful of exclusive football and basketball games, with Peacock and Paramount+ also set to simulcast games from their respective broadcast networks.
In a statement, NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua said that the deal will make Peacock “a year-round destination for the best in college sports.”
CBS and Fox have been Big Ten media partners for years (Fox owns the Big Ten Network, while CBS is home to the March Madness basketball tournament), while NBC is a new addition. NBC...
The Big Ten has found three big broadcast partners for its new long-term media rights deal, one that will give the athletic conference nearly 8 billion dollars through the 2029-2030 season.
CBS, NBC and Fox will be the Big Ten’s media partners, with games set to air on the broadcast networks, FS1 and the Big Ten Network. NBCU’s Peacock will also get a handful of exclusive football and basketball games, with Peacock and Paramount+ also set to simulcast games from their respective broadcast networks.
In a statement, NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua said that the deal will make Peacock “a year-round destination for the best in college sports.”
CBS and Fox have been Big Ten media partners for years (Fox owns the Big Ten Network, while CBS is home to the March Madness basketball tournament), while NBC is a new addition. NBC...
- 8/18/2022
- by Alex Weprin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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In a surprising and seismic shift in college athletics, the Big Ten voted Thursday to add Southern California and UCLA as conference members beginning in 2024.
The expansion to 16 teams will happen after the Pac-12’s current media rights contracts with Fox and ESPN expire and make the Big Ten the first conference to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The announcement, which caught the Pac-12 off-guard, came almost a year after Oklahoma and Texas formally accepted invitations to join the Southeastern Conference in July 2025.
Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said USC and UCLA, both members of the Pac-12 and its previous iterations for nearly a century, submitted applications for membership and the league’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors voted unanimously to add the Los Angeles schools.
“Ultimately, the Big Ten is the best home for USC and Trojan athletics as we...
In a surprising and seismic shift in college athletics, the Big Ten voted Thursday to add Southern California and UCLA as conference members beginning in 2024.
The expansion to 16 teams will happen after the Pac-12’s current media rights contracts with Fox and ESPN expire and make the Big Ten the first conference to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The announcement, which caught the Pac-12 off-guard, came almost a year after Oklahoma and Texas formally accepted invitations to join the Southeastern Conference in July 2025.
Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren said USC and UCLA, both members of the Pac-12 and its previous iterations for nearly a century, submitted applications for membership and the league’s Council of Presidents and Chancellors voted unanimously to add the Los Angeles schools.
“Ultimately, the Big Ten is the best home for USC and Trojan athletics as we...
- 7/1/2022
- by Associated Press
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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