(01-29-2011 10:18 AM)Borncoog74 Wrote:  Can someone please breakdown the current BE TV contract for me.

How much does each school currently get?

Is there a seperate contract for football and basketball?

Does the football side share any of the bowl money with the basketball side?

At present it's 4 mil per year football only plus 9 mil additionally for all schools for other sports. The BE is the only conference that makes more money on hoops than football.

We're sure to get considerably more money for football next contract, but ... our current contract runs for three more full years. That means we continue to collect lots less than other BCS conferences for a few more years.

(01-31-2011 09:54 PM)Cromie Wrote:  

(01-31-2011 09:50 PM)BigOwensboroCard Wrote:  Someone posted this over on are rival site about possibly getting 15million per football school as well in the first post mentioning the ESPN has guaranteed no less than 10million per school.

http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=17&f=2759&t=7131234

Hopefully the copy paste works for me for some time I end up having issues in doing so, and I am going to copy this in another thread as well for it talks about Nova moving up also.

15 was an estimated number and could rise we will just have to see

The SEC gets about $19m per school for football, the Big 10 about $20m, hard to imagine we'd get the same.

(02-09-2011 05:33 PM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(02-09-2011 11:53 AM)mattsarz Wrote:  What would a Big East Network charge? And would cable operators be willing to put it on? Think about these issues that cable companies and NYC sports channels have had

-YES wasn't on Cablevision systems for at least a year when it started up because CVC was suing the team over it leaving MSG Network, a CVC owned channel
-YES still isn't on Dish Network systems, may never be
-CVC fought with several operators about the use of MSG & MSG Plus's HD feeds, to the point that out-of-market people couldn't view them on PPV packages like NHL Center Ice
-Time Warner and Comcast are stakeholders in SNY, and are currently airing boatloads of Big East programming in the fall & winter months. Do you think they'd want to pony up channel space and additional money when they have a channel that they run that benefits by the Big East's presence?

Then there's the whole NFL Network thing I brought up in a thread on the main board, where neither Time Warner nor CVC has elected to carry the channel. Everyone is looking at sports channels w/more scrutiny because they are becoming a larger part of the cable/satellite bill. ESPN, for example, wants to sell off a portion (somewhere close to 20%) of the new U. of Texas channel to Time Warner in exchange for Time Warner guaranteeing channel placement on their systems as TWC has a large number of systems in Texas.

Yes, this is all true. Also remember that the Big Ten Network, which is the model for college conference TV networks, had distribution problems for a year. The BTN looks like easy money now, but it was HARD to get basic cable distribution. It largely succeeded, but only after a lot of acrimony and public fighting.

The biggest leveraging point that the BTN had was that since it was partially-owned by Fox, it instantly got basic carriage nationally on DirecTV (which Fox controlled at the time of the BTN launch). Thus, the BTN could point to fans and say that they should drop cable and move to DirecTV if their cable providers wouldn't add the channel. There was a certain point that enough cable subscribers were switching over the DirecTV and other providers that offered the BTN in the Big Ten footprint that the cable providers realized that they were losing more money with all of those lost customers than paying up for the BTN. That's where the Big Ten's combination of large markets plus huge fan bases came in - there were enough of them that were willing to switch solely for the BTN that the cable companies HAD to work with the BTN.

This is the key for any conference network to work: they need leverage where there are enough fans out both in sheer numbers AND passion there that are willing to switch cable providers SOLELY for that channel. The BE's advantage is in the numbers, where they have large markets on paper. However, the BE's disadvantage is the passion (or lack thereof) in the conference's largest markets. While a BEN is an easy sell in places like Louisville and the state of West Virginia, getting basic carriage in the NYC market is going to be VERY tough if we're being realistic here. The BE's markets are an advantage only to the extent that they can be delivered.

This is why I think the BE would still make the most money by focusing on national TV contracts as opposed to a conference network. Once again, this isn't exactly crazy or negative - the SEC and ACC came to the exact same conclusion and are making tons of money.

The key for the Big East TV network is to get on the various cable packages for as many people as possible. I think there is a decent chance of getting on one of the cable packages in NYC because of men's basketball. It will have many games that will be of interest to people in the city that they may not be able to get on ESPN. Hopefully, that will be the ticket to get on the cable packages which will bring in big $$$ to the Big East. I think the current leadership of the Big
East is doing their best and have a very good advisor in Paul Tagliabue who has experience dealing with cable providers.