The agreement with NBC also includes eight football games and dozens of men’s and women’s basketball games per season to be exclusively streamed on Peacock, the network’s online subscription service. Starting in 2023, NBC will launch “Big Ten Saturday Night” in prime time and broadcast 15-16 games per season. They’re the largest deals in the history of college football.” “When we did our financial analysis, and looked at the major markets - even before USC and UCLA - and the national footprint of the Big Ten, it was a very attractive deal for us,” said Sean McManus, chairman of CBS Sports.
The network will continue to be the home of Big Ten men’s basketball, including the conference tournament semifinals and finals, and it will begin airing the women’s basketball tournament championship. In 2023, CBS will carry seven Big Ten games while it still has the SEC on CBS at 3:30 p.m. Fox, CBS and NBC will hold a draft for games, allowing each network some opportunities for first selection in a given week. Unlike with its longtime SEC deal, CBS will not be guaranteed the first selection of football games each week with the Big Ten. Eastern - that is moving to ABC - with a Big Ten game.ĬBS will carry 14-15 Big Ten football games a season from 2024-29, including a Black Friday game. With ESPN out of the equation for Big Ten football after a 40-year relationship, the league is set to lock down three prominent time slots with its network partners.įox, which has shared the rights to the Big Ten with ESPN since 2017 and owns a majority stake in BTN, will continue to feature noon Eastern time as its primary game of the day.įox and its cable network FS1 will have the rights to more than two dozen football games, at least 45 men’s basketball games and women’s basketball games.ĬBS, starting in 2024, will replace the Southeastern Conference game of the week at 3:30 p.m. Compared to what they had been getting which is like $3 million a year.” “If you get 3 million people all of sudden get the Big Ten network as part of their expanded basic (cable package), that’s $3 million a month. “The economics of that alone are rather large,” Thompson said. Plus, the West Coast schools should help increase what conference can make off its cable network in that part of the country.
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In 2024, Southern California and UCLA are scheduled to join the Big Ten, adding the Los Angeles market to its footprint.įormer Fox Sports President Bob Thompson said adding teams from the second-largest media market in the country (5.8 million homes) had to make the conference even more appealing to TV networks.
The Big Ten currently has 14 members, stretching from Rutgers and Maryland on the East Coast to Nebraska across the Midwest, and covering some of the biggest media markets in the country, including New York, Philadelphia and Chicago.
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