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SEC TV Network Is Brilliant Move That Will Prove Lucrative in Short Order


The Southeastern Conference has completed the buy-back of its TV, digital and sponsorship rights from third parties, clearing the final hurdles to launch its TV channel with ESPN next year.

The conference and ESPN will make a formal announcement on the yet-to-be-named SEC channel, which will launch in August 2014, at an event Tuesday in Atlanta.

This new network will be much like the ones created by the Big Ten and Pacific 12 conferences. According to Matt Murschel of the Orlando Sentinel, "both leagues and its members have seen a big financial windfall from the network deals."

Within the current constructs of the SEC's television deals, the schools in this conference were already raking in the cash, according to Murschel:

The SEC's current television rights deal with ESPN and CBS pays the league $205 million annually, which breaks down to $14.6 million per school. While financial details of this new deal were not released, it's likely the payday will be much larger.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/16068...hort-order

The network will televise approximately 45 SEC football games, more than 100 men's basketball games, 60 women's basketball games, 75 baseball games, and events from across the SEC's 21 sports annually. Programming will also include studio shows, original content such as SEC Storied, spring football games, signing day and pro days coverage. Hundreds of additional live events from various sports will be offered exclusively on the digital platform. The network and its digital extensions will connect with each SEC institution and create opportunities for each school to produce and develop content.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball...ec-network

(05-09-2013 10:58 AM)Gamecock Wrote: [ -> ]

What I'm hearing about 45 football games with only two on Thursday nights doesn't add up-most years there are only 14 weeks in the football season, the last of which has the conference championship game. So that leaves 13 weeks x 3 games plus the two Thursday games for a total of 41. That either means 4 games on an overflow channel, or 4 quadruple headers (11:00, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30) with the first game requiring teams from the Eastern Time Zone and the last game requiring teams from the Central Time Zone.

Ironically in 2013 the season is 15 weeks long instead of 14, which would account for all but one of the planned 45 games with a triple header every week.

(05-11-2013 10:24 PM)chargeradio Wrote: [ -> ]What I'm hearing about 45 football games with only two on Thursday nights doesn't add up-most years there are only 14 weeks in the football season, the last of which has the conference championship game. So that leaves 13 weeks x 3 games plus the two Thursday games for a total of 41. That either means 4 games on an overflow channel, or 4 quadruple headers (11:00, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30) with the first game requiring teams from the Eastern Time Zone and the last game requiring teams from the Central Time Zone.

Ironically in 2013 the season is 15 weeks long instead of 14, which would account for all but one of the planned 45 games with a triple header every week.

Not positive, but I'm guessing Thanksgiving weekend my have some additional games on Friday to get to 45.

Can't wait. Just keeps getting better...

While it will have a great deal of content and will be financially successful, I don't think the SECNet maximizes the conferences' value in the same way if they were taking it out to bid. Plus I'm sure UGA, UF, 'Bama and UK had or could get 3rd tier deals that were only $1-2 million below what the new network will distribute.

I will say that it was a masterful job by Slive convincing those team to pools their resources together.

(05-13-2013 07:37 PM)bigblueblindness Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-11-2013 10:24 PM)chargeradio Wrote: [ -> ]What I'm hearing about 45 football games with only two on Thursday nights doesn't add up-most years there are only 14 weeks in the football season, the last of which has the conference championship game. So that leaves 13 weeks x 3 games plus the two Thursday games for a total of 41. That either means 4 games on an overflow channel, or 4 quadruple headers (11:00, 2:30, 6:00, 9:30) with the first game requiring teams from the Eastern Time Zone and the last game requiring teams from the Central Time Zone.

Ironically in 2013 the season is 15 weeks long instead of 14, which would account for all but one of the planned 45 games with a triple header every week.

Not positive, but I'm guessing Thanksgiving weekend my have some additional games on Friday to get to 45.

That's what I was gonna say, Friday after Thanksgiving is usually when LSU-Arkansas and Ole Miss-MSU play, correct?

I know CBS had one of those games on Black Friday, but ESPN could juggle things so that SECN could show 1-2 of Florida-Florida State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, South Carolina-Clemson, or Vanderbilt-Wake Forest. If CBS still has 2 games, SECN could have five that weekend and that accounts for everyone.

This would also encourage ESPN to start an ACC network as the ACC would have seven games that weekend in its inventory, including some of the four SEC-ACC match-ups.

(05-14-2013 06:45 PM)chargeradio Wrote: [ -> ]I know CBS had one of those games on Black Friday, but ESPN could juggle things so that SECN could show 1-2 of Florida-Florida State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, South Carolina-Clemson, or Vanderbilt-Wake Forest. If CBS still has 2 games, SECN could have five that weekend and that accounts for everyone.

This would also encourage ESPN to start an ACC network as the ACC would have seven games that weekend in its inventory, including some of the four SEC-ACC match-ups.

If the ACC is able to start a network, it would make sense to alternate those SEC/ACC games on each other's networks. I assume the home team would get the game on their network. Basketball and baseball would also benefit from inter-conference rivalries.

(05-15-2013 11:32 AM)bigblueblindness Wrote: [ -> ]

(05-14-2013 06:45 PM)chargeradio Wrote: [ -> ]I know CBS had one of those games on Black Friday, but ESPN could juggle things so that SECN could show 1-2 of Florida-Florida State, Georgia-Georgia Tech, South Carolina-Clemson, or Vanderbilt-Wake Forest. If CBS still has 2 games, SECN could have five that weekend and that accounts for everyone.

This would also encourage ESPN to start an ACC network as the ACC would have seven games that weekend in its inventory, including some of the four SEC-ACC match-ups.

If the ACC is able to start a network, it would make sense to alternate those SEC/ACC games on each other's networks. I assume the home team would get the game on their network. Basketball and baseball would also benefit from inter-conference rivalries.

It would be fun..and some good baseball games too.