In the world of college football, it seems like this offseason has brought in huge tv contracts for two of the conferences in the BCS. The Big 12 conference and the PAC 10 have signed huge, new TV. In April, the Big 12 conference signed a new deal with Fox Network to the tune of $90 million annually over 13 years. The deal is more than four times more than the 20 million annually that the Big 12 brings in now. A minimum of forty games, including all Big 12 home games will now be televised according to commissioner Dan Beebe. The conference’s 13-year deal, which is worth $1.17 billion, will take effect at the start of the 2012-2013 school year. This TV contract ensures that the conference will have enough money to go around and will help to stabilize it for the long-term and that is crucial with the idea of having four super conference tossed about. With the landscape of college football conferences shifting, the Big 12 has already taken a hit with two defections. Long time members Nebraska, which joined the Big Ten Conference, and Colorado, which joined the PAC 10, have reduced the Big 12 down to ten. Also, rumors of Texas A&M and Missouri leaving the conference had the Big 12 questioning it’s future, until the new TV deal came to the rescue.
The PAC 10 announced this month a “landmark deal” with new and existing partnerships in a TV contract that will expand their relationships with ESPN and FOX Sports Network, along with the creation of a new media company the PAC-12 Network. The PAC 10 recently grew to twelve with the additions of the University of Colorado, from the Big 12 conference, and the Utah Utes, from the Western Athletic Conference. The terms of the ESPN and FOX Sports Network were not disclosed, but PAC-12 commissioner Larry Scott called it, “a landmark deal”. This new deal has been reported by the Associated Press to be worth about $250 million dollars.
http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/27679/what-the-big-12s-new-tv-deal-means
http://www.pac-10.org/News/tabid/863/Article/225167/pac-12-announces-landmark-media-rights-deal-with-espn-fox-sports-media-group.aspx
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