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CBS-CS TV deal signed by CUSA in 2005:

45.9 million over 6 years (7.65 mil per year/.6375 per school)

CBS-CS TV deal signed by CUSA in 2010:

42 to 45 million over 6 years!

Quote:CONFERENCE USA announced a portion of its new telecast deal Thursday, a six-year package with CBS College Sports Network in the $7 million range annually.

A renewal with ESPN is very soon to come, I'm told, and Marshall and its 11 league brethren aren't getting richer yet.

Sources said C-USA will receive $7 million-7.5 million a year through 2016 (that football season, and the 2015-16 basketball season), primarily for football and men's and women's basketball telecasts.

That's pretty much the same dollars C-USA had gotten from the network in a backloaded contract that's ending - $45.8 million over six years.

CBSC (as it's known in listings where available) is seen in approximately 38 million households, but is available to over 90 million households (and nationally on satellite networks). On cable, its subscriber base is often rooted in system sports tiers.

The previous six-year deal with CBS College Sports (when negotiated it was CSTV) was $45.8 million, so a $42 million-45 million contract is anything but growth when Bowl Championship Series leagues are getting big bumps - see the recent ACC deal (a hike of about $85 million annually).

Well, it's because C-USA schools - realizing the fact that CBSC isn't yet widely distributed - wanted to be able to provide rights to third-party TV (like Marshall with WSAZ, through its ISP marketing arrangement).

CBSC did retain the right to sub-license games to regional networks.

Sources said C-USA also has retained the ability to start its own digital network - so perhaps the deal isn't quite as constraining as the previous contract, or as all-encompassing.

As for ESPN, the Disney networks' contract with C-USA has been for $22 million over six years for 10 football games and a handful of hoops appearances.

That ESPN deal originally was signed in 2001 as an eight-year pact worth about $90 million ($11.3 million annually) to Conference USA.

It was renegotiated down to $22 million (or $3.66 million annually) in 2005 when big-market clubs Louisville, Cincinnati, USF, Marquette and DePaul left C-USA for the Big East.

http://www.dailymail.com/Sports/JackBoga...1007220960

-In 2001 CUSA signed an 11.3 mil per year TV deal with ESPN divided by 14 schools (.8017 per school). This included more extensive ESPN football/basketball coverage than the most recent agreement with CUSA/CSTV.

The prior agreement (1997-2000) signed before TCU/ECU joined was in the neighborhood of 7.5 million per year divided by 12 schools (.625 per school).

-In 2005 CUSA splits its package between CSTV/ESPN. CSTV offers 7.65 mil while ESPN offers 3.65 mil. Combined its the same amount that CUSA was receiving before but this time split 12 ways (.9417 per school) given CUSA losses that wasn't too bad at the time.

-In 2010 CUSA split package with CSTV/ESPN releases 7 mil per school from CSTV (.5833 per school) and its not been finalized what they are receiving from CSTV. I will say this if they are receiving less money from CSTV and the men's basketball championship airs on CBS not ESPN anymore I'm sure ESPN is paying less than it was before.

And the MAC makes like $5 per TV game.

(07-26-2010 11:37 AM)uakronkid Wrote: [ -> ]And the MAC makes like $5 per TV game.

CUSA is getting 10 million+

WAC is getting 4.8 million (600k per football school)

MAC is getting 1.4 million (100k per football school)

What it tells me since CUSA has been at the same numbers per school pretty much since the early 90's that there is a glass celing as far as what TV networks are willing to pay a non-AQ conference with so much inventory out there (MWC, CUSA, MAC, WAC, SBC, MVC, CAA, So. Con, Big Sky, Southland, Ivy, MEAC, SWAC, NEC, Pioneer, Great West).

The MAC would be better served with a smaller TV package restricting inventory for more money with better Saturday timeslots on Fox Sport Net/Fox Sports Midwest. That will allow home attendance to grow.

Midweek games are destroying the MAC. Ever since the MAC moved to midweek games attendance is way down. Midweek started full throttle in 2003 but that was such a great season that it wasn't noticable across the league.

according to the Orlando Sentinel...our deal with CBS-CS is up 15% to around 8 million.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/co...9916.story

i don't quite think you get it...non-BCS teams fight for scraps...i'll take 15%.

we're also still negotiating with ESPN.

The rich get richer, the poor stay poor.

(07-26-2010 12:41 PM)Chappy Wrote: [ -> ]The rich get richer, the poor stay poor.

And the poor want to get rich and the rich wont ever let that happen.. To live in a world where everything was fair... not going to happen...

(07-26-2010 12:17 PM)Airport KC Wrote: [ -> ][quote='uakronkid' pid='5593278' dateline='1280162251']
The MAC would be better served with a smaller TV package restricting inventory for more money with better Saturday timeslots on Fox Sport Net/Fox Sports Midwest. That will allow home attendance to grow.

Midweek games are destroying the MAC. Ever since the MAC moved to midweek games attendance is way down. Midweek started full throttle in 2003 but that was such a great season that it wasn't noticable across the league.

I'd like to see the MAC be the leadoff for CBS College Sports Saturday Football and take the 11AM-1PM start times slots and let the MWC keep the afternoon & evening games. A relationship needs to be developed with Fox as well. The MWC doesn't get as much national exposure but it doesn't seem to have hurt them with Utah & TCU getting BCS bowl bids.

(07-27-2010 06:59 PM)onlinepole Wrote: [ -> ]

(07-26-2010 12:17 PM)Airport KC Wrote: [ -> ][quote='uakronkid' pid='5593278' dateline='1280162251']
The MAC would be better served with a smaller TV package restricting inventory for more money with better Saturday timeslots on Fox Sport Net/Fox Sports Midwest. That will allow home attendance to grow.

Midweek games are destroying the MAC. Ever since the MAC moved to midweek games attendance is way down. Midweek started full throttle in 2003 but that was such a great season that it wasn't noticable across the league.

I'd like to see the MAC be the leadoff for CBS College Sports Saturday Football and take the 11AM-1PM start times slots and let the MWC keep the afternoon & evening games. A relationship needs to be developed with Fox as well. The MWC doesn't get as much national exposure but it doesn't seem to have hurt them with Utah & TCU getting BCS bowl bids.

I know right now, Toledo and prolly BG wouldn't start between 11 and 1. Toledo doesn't want to compete with OSU plus our attendance would look like EMU's.