Look's like our deal with ABC/ESPN & Fox be Finalize Friday..
Was wonder about our tier 3 rights...
read while back we were combining ours is that true ?
Sure hope so believe that will be better... thought's & Opinions ?
At the very least I think it would make sense for TCU and Baylor to combine 3rd tier rights. If we can get Tech and Okie State on board then all the better. I haven't heard anything about this though.
I'll let you know when it's finalized...
I'd say stability has been achieved. Although the increase in the number of games to be televised increases in 2016, which seems to indicate to me that the Big XII may expand in the near future...
Great new TV to provide stability. Very excited about the future of TCU and Big 12 football.
WVU currently handles tier 3 rights in house. Among FBS schools, WVU and Michigan State are the only ones handling their own tier 3 rights. Whether that remains the case is open to question. Root Sports, who purchased the broadcast rights for the WVU-JMU game directly from WVU, will carry the only tier 3 game for WVU this season on Saturday afternoon at 4:30pm EST. I'll be tuned on Root Sports Pittsburgh (DirecTV channel 659) for the game too...
But WVU's tier 3 rights for the future are still being worked on. The amount of time between the RFP going out and the start of this season weren't enough to allow for WVU to come to a good decision. It was decided that more study was needed to determine if it was more profitable for WVU to handle tier 3, or someone else. So the decision was put off until next season...