(06-06-2016 12:30 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  BTW, I have no clue.

Glad you finally admitted it.

(06-06-2016 12:30 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  Well let's look at this.

Everyone says a conference championship game is worth at least (some say around) $1 million.

Since ESPN has football and CBS has basketball- I'm going to say there is around $2 million of the contract.

From there, I have no clue where the other $7 million would come from. Keep in mind though, ESPN and CBS are still getting good quality games to broadcast. They might only have 5 games each, but they get their pick among 14 teams. No doubt they took the most valuable regular season games we had. If they pay $1 million for a championship game, I would say they pay at least that for the 5 most valuable regular season games.

In all I would guess that ESPN and CBS are paying at least $2 million to $2.5 million each. So in total I would say they are paying at least $4-5 million dollars of the contract.

BTW, I have no clue. Just rambling thoughts out loud.

FWIW--It didnt give an amount, but there was a column by a Landon (I think) that claimed BeIn was actually paying pretty decent money for their share of the package.

In 2011 espn and CUSA settled their lawsuit and the terms of that were the following...

espn got the CUSA championship game through 2015 and paid CUSA 22 million for the rights

By my math that works out to 4.4 million a year for the CUSA championship game. I know I read that number somewhere and I can't find it now but I did find the below. Now I have no ideal if espn lowered that number but it was 22 million for 5 games in 2011

ESPN sued the conference in March, accusing it of violating their contract when it signed a new deal with Fox. Conference USA had announced in January that it had reached a five-year contract with Fox's networks to broadcast its football championship game and other sports events.

The two sides announced Tuesday that ESPN would televise the title game from 2011-15.

The rest of the deal with Fox remains intact. Fox Sports Networks will air at least 20 regular-season football games and 10 regular-season men's basketball games each year.

After Conference USA was sued, Fox worked with the league to find a solution that was beneficial for all sides.

"We applaud Conference USA and ESPN for resolving their differences," Fox spokesman Dan Bell said.

Fox has recently been aggressive in adding college sports programming and could be back in the mix for the Conference USA football title games starting in 2016.

ESPN and Conference USA had signed a five-year deal in 2005, which included a provision giving ESPN exclusive rights to try to re-negotiate the package in 2010. The suit filed in federal court in New York said Conference USA did not satisfy the terms that would have allowed it to negotiate with other networks. The conference denied those claims in court filings.

"The parties look forward to continuing their relationship going forward," the joint statement said.

ESPN and Conference USA said they would have no further comment Tuesday.

The lawsuit contended the league had agreed to terms in writing on a new contract with ESPN worth about $22 million. Conference USA's original deal with Fox was for $43 million.



If CUSA had a 5 year deal with 13 million a year that would be $65,000,000. Now how do you get there if Fox was only paying 43 million?

(06-06-2016 01:02 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  In 2011 espn and CUSA settled their lawsuit and the terms of that were the following...

espn got the CUSA championship game through 2015 and paid CUSA 22 million for the rights

By my math that works out to 4.4 million a year for the CUSA championship game. I know I read that number somewhere and I can't find it now but I did find the below. Now I have no ideal if espn lowered that number but it was 22 million for 5 games in 2011

ESPN sued the conference in March, accusing it of violating their contract when it signed a new deal with Fox. Conference USA had announced in January that it had reached a five-year contract with Fox's networks to broadcast its football championship game and other sports events.

The two sides announced Tuesday that ESPN would televise the title game from 2011-15.

The rest of the deal with Fox remains intact. Fox Sports Networks will air at least 20 regular-season football games and 10 regular-season men's basketball games each year.

After Conference USA was sued, Fox worked with the league to find a solution that was beneficial for all sides.

"We applaud Conference USA and ESPN for resolving their differences," Fox spokesman Dan Bell said.

Fox has recently been aggressive in adding college sports programming and could be back in the mix for the Conference USA football title games starting in 2016.

ESPN and Conference USA had signed a five-year deal in 2005, which included a provision giving ESPN exclusive rights to try to re-negotiate the package in 2010. The suit filed in federal court in New York said Conference USA did not satisfy the terms that would have allowed it to negotiate with other networks. The conference denied those claims in court filings.

"The parties look forward to continuing their relationship going forward," the joint statement said.

ESPN and Conference USA said they would have no further comment Tuesday.

The lawsuit contended the league had agreed to terms in writing on a new contract with ESPN worth about $22 million. Conference USA's original deal with Fox was for $43 million.



If CUSA had a 5 year deal with 13 million a year that would be $65,000,000. Now how do you get there if Fox was only paying 43 million?

No. You're confusing what the lawsuit "contended" for an outcome. The case was settled by CUSA giving ESPN the championship game for 5 years.

Also, Fox only paid a portion of the rights fees. CBSSN kicked in substantial money.

(06-06-2016 01:15 PM)Superanjario Wrote:  

(06-06-2016 01:02 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  In 2011 espn and CUSA settled their lawsuit and the terms of that were the following...

espn got the CUSA championship game through 2015 and paid CUSA 22 million for the rights

By my math that works out to 4.4 million a year for the CUSA championship game. I know I read that number somewhere and I can't find it now but I did find the below. Now I have no ideal if espn lowered that number but it was 22 million for 5 games in 2011

ESPN sued the conference in March, accusing it of violating their contract when it signed a new deal with Fox. Conference USA had announced in January that it had reached a five-year contract with Fox's networks to broadcast its football championship game and other sports events.

The two sides announced Tuesday that ESPN would televise the title game from 2011-15.

The rest of the deal with Fox remains intact. Fox Sports Networks will air at least 20 regular-season football games and 10 regular-season men's basketball games each year.

After Conference USA was sued, Fox worked with the league to find a solution that was beneficial for all sides.

"We applaud Conference USA and ESPN for resolving their differences," Fox spokesman Dan Bell said.

Fox has recently been aggressive in adding college sports programming and could be back in the mix for the Conference USA football title games starting in 2016.

ESPN and Conference USA had signed a five-year deal in 2005, which included a provision giving ESPN exclusive rights to try to re-negotiate the package in 2010. The suit filed in federal court in New York said Conference USA did not satisfy the terms that would have allowed it to negotiate with other networks. The conference denied those claims in court filings.

"The parties look forward to continuing their relationship going forward," the joint statement said.

ESPN and Conference USA said they would have no further comment Tuesday.

The lawsuit contended the league had agreed tESPN sued the conference in March, accusing it of violating their contract when it signed a new deal with Fox. Conference USA had announced in January that it had reached a five-year contract with Fox's networks to broadcast its football championship game and other sports events.

The two sides announced Tuesday that ESPN would televise the title game from 2011-15.

The rest of the deal with Fox remains intact. Fox Sports Networks will air at least 20 regular-season football games and 10 regular-season men's basketball games each year.

After Conference USA was sued, Fox worked with the league to find a solution that was beneficial for all sides.

"We applaud Conference USA and ESPN for resolving their differences," Fox spokesman Dan Bell said.

Fox has recently been aggressive in adding college sports programming and could be back in the mix for the Conference USA football title games starting in 2016.

ESPN and Conference USA had signed a five-year deal in 2005, which included a provision giving ESPN exclusive rights to try to re-negotiate the package in 2010. The suit filed in federal court in New York said Conference USA did not satisfy the terms that would have allowed it to negotiate with other networks. The conference denied those claims in court filings.

"The parties look forward to continuing their relationship going forward," the joint statement said.

ESPN and Conference USA said they would have no further comment Tuesday.

The lawsuit contended the league had agreed to terms in writing on a new contract with ESPN worth about $22 million. Conference USA's original deal with Fox was for $43 million.

This year's conference title game is Dec. 3 on ESPN2.. Conference USA's original deal with Fox was for $43 million.



If CUSA had a 5 year deal with 13 million a year that would be $65,000,000. Now how do you get there if Fox was only paying 43 million?

No. You're confusing what the lawsuit "contended" for an outcome. The case was settled by CUSA giving ESPN the championship game for 5 years.

Also, Fox only paid a portion of the rights fees. CBSSN kicked in substantial money.

Yes I see now after reading from that point of view. But I know I read that 4.4 (or 4.5) mil number somewhere. I will keep looking

(06-06-2016 12:30 PM)FlyHawk98 Wrote:  Well let's look at this.

Everyone says a conference championship game is worth at least (some say around) $1 million.

Since ESPN has football and CBS has basketball- I'm going to say there is around $2 million of the contract.

From there, I have no clue where the other $7 million would come from. Keep in mind though, ESPN and CBS are still getting good quality games to broadcast. They might only have 5 games each, but they get their pick among 14 teams. No doubt they took the most valuable regular season games we had. If they pay $1 million for a championship game, I would say they pay at least that for the 5 most valuable regular season games.

In all I would guess that ESPN and CBS are paying at least $2 million to $2.5 million each. So in total I would say they are paying at least $4-5 million dollars of the contract.

BTW, I have no clue. Just rambling thoughts out loud.

If one just divides the $9 million per year between the 4 companies it is $2.25 million each. We did ok but need to do better in 2 years.