(03-07-2013 06:05 PM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  

(03-07-2013 06:02 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  The party may not be over yet. Supposedly the MWC deal with CBS allows the conference to sign additional TV contracts with TWO other networks. ESPN is just one. A third deal with NBC or Fox for tier 1/tier 2 (national/regional) broadcast rights could still be in the works.

Plus the MWC appears to have arranged for its members to retain their tier 3 (local) broadcast rights. This will be an additional revenue source for most MWC schools.

So it may be too soon to compare MWC and A-12 TV revenue.

Don't you guys make those most out of all of us off your tier 3? I know our tier 3 are on comcast sports california.

Hawaii's current tier 3 deal pays $2.5 million per year. In exchange for that, the broadcast partner -- Oceanic Cablevision, a Time Warner Cable subsidiary -- gets the rights to show seven UH football games via PPV. This is doable because the national networks usually show no more than five. Oceanic sells the PPV packages for $450 a pop to its cable TV subscribers; individual games go for $65.

In addition, Oceanic gets the rights to show over 100 non-football events on its dedicated HD 7x24 UH sports channel, which all Oceanic subscribers receive as part of their basic cable service. That includes almost all home men's and women's basketball games and men's and women's volleyball matches, and many home soccer, softball and baseball games. Even water polo gets some coverage. Oceanic earns good advertising revenue from these broadcasts.

It pays (for UH) to be the only team in town.