templefootballfan Wrote:BE TV market is at 42.5 million, 4 schools bring up TV market to 52.6. 24% increase from 15 million would be 18.5 million. Also not being factord in is Championship game, EC & Temple side deal & total of games being purchased, up by 12.
I just don't think it is that simple... But I can see how you would want that forth team to be Temple...
Big East football schools TV markets:
Rutgers- #1 New York, NY, 7,391,940 households
South Florida- #13 Tampa-St. Petersburg (Sarasota), FL ,1,783,910 households
Pittsburgh- #22 Pittsburgh, PA, 1,158,210 households
Connecticut- #29 Hartford & New Haven, CT, 1,007,490 households
Cincinnati- #33 Cincinnati, OH, 904,340 households
Louisville- #48 Louisville, KY, 657,180 households
Syracuse- #80 Syracuse, NY, 386,380 households
West Virginia- #166 Clarksburg-Weston, WV, 108,800 households
Total households in hometown TV markets- 13,398,250
Big East- 6,006,310 households (minus New York which greatly inflates their numbers)
C-USA- 9,827,860 households
MWC- 7,604,710 households
WAC- 5,508,100 households
Expansion schools TV markets
Temple- #4 Philadelphia, PA, 2,939,950 households
Central Florida- #19 Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne, FL, 1,434,050 households
Memphis- #47 Memphis, TN, 667,890 households
East Carolina- #105 Greenville-New Bern-Washington, NC, 276,020 households
Total households in hometown TV markets- 5,317,910
Now here is the kicker, sure these add schools will increase the Big East's numbers of hometown TV markets. But, how much pull do this markets really have? ESPN pays the
WHOLE C-USA $3.5 million a year (for all sports) and with Temple in the MWC for football only the MAC makes around $500,000 a year from ESPN for all sports. So with these 4 teams in the C-USA and MAC, both conferences combine to make around $4 million a year from ESPN. Now you are saying if they go to the Big East they will all of a sudden become "Cash Cow" TV markets?