SEC looks to start it's own network.

[bchampy]

Report: The SEC is looking to start its own network - CBSSports.com

 

[JMlion71]

Holy fuckoley!!! Gary Danielson is developing an ulcer as we speak. Big Ten Network has been cash central - just sayin'.

 

[bchampy]

Holy fuckoley!!! Gary Danielson is developing an ulcer as we speak. Big Ten Network has been cash central - just sayin'.

 

[herky]

Big Ten payouts estimated at $24.6 million

The projected payout is based on budget estimates and is expected to include $7.2 million from the Big Ten Network, a drop from last year's $7.9 million. However, contracts with ESPN/ABC and CBS will result in $10 million per school, which is a 22 percent increase over last year.

Read more: Big Ten payouts estimated at $24.6 million

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

You beat me to it, I was just coming to post the same thing.

The 14-team conference has been negotiating with both networks this year after the SEC expanded with Texas A&M and Missouri. That triggered a clause in the SEC’s deal that allows the league to go back to the negotiating table with its partners, just as the ACC recently renegotiated its media contract with ESPN after its own expansion with Pittsburgh and Syracuse.

The bigger negotiation is with ESPN, and talks appear to revolve around an SEC-branded cable channel that could launch as early as 2014. ESPN’s current arrangement with the SEC—negotiated in 2008—pays an average of $150 million a year over 15 years.

It remains to be seen if the SEC will be an equity partner in the channel, like the Big Ten, or if the conference will simply sell the rights to ESPN for an additional fee.

There are several different paths the SEC could take on a channel. It could follow the Big Ten model, where the conference is a 49 percent owner of Big Ten Network with Fox and shares in its revenue. Or it could go the Pac-12 route, which owns all of its regional networks. Texas, on the other hand, sold its rights to ESPN for a fee and ESPN owns all of the Longhorn Network.

All of those models are believed to be in play for the SEC, but any channel couldn’t be launched until 2014 at the earliest, when ESPN gets back syndication rights it sublicensed to regional sports networks operated by Fox Sports and Comcast. A decision on whether to go forward with a new SEC-focused network would be made by the SEC-member university presidents and ESPN. A final decision on a network will be made by ESPN in conjunction with SEC Commissioner Mike Slive and the presidents.

SEC looking at cable channel as media rights talks with CBS, ESPN near - NCAA Football - Sporting News

 

[JMlion71]

There are several different paths the SEC could take on a channel. It could follow the Big Ten model, where the conference is a 49 percent owner of Big Ten Network with Fox and shares in its revenue. Or it could go the Pac-12 route, which owns all of its regional networks. Texas, on the other hand, sold its rights to ESPN for a fee and ESPN owns all of the Longhorn Network.

I didn't know that.

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

SEC Continues to Research “SEC Network” | College Football News, Opinion and Analysis | Chuck Oliver.Net

 

[HawkeyesRuleURFace]

They will be airing episodes of COPS and their own version of Worlds Dumbest Criminals during the offseason

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

ROR

 

[Granddaddy South]

NO MORE GARY DANIELSON? HOLY SHIT I'M BOUT TO PISS ON MYSELF!!!!!!


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

 

[Granddaddy South]

They will be airing episodes of COPS and their own version of Worlds Dumbest Criminals during the offseason

More like Game of the Century.

 

[goDAWGSsicem]

NO MORE GARY DANIELSON? HOLY SHIT I'M BOUT TO PISS ON MYSELF!!!!!!


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Forget it. Danielson isn't going anywhere.

 

[WestEndVol]

The SEC is primed for world domination, soon everybody will know our name!

MUHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[bchampy]

Forget it. Danielson isn't going anywhere.