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Football
-17 games on ABC & ESPN/ESPN2
-Four will be Thursday night, two Sunday night
-One game on ESPN's Saturday Primetime (7:45pm) slot, two on the last day of the regular season
-Nine Big East GOTW on ESPN+ affiliates
-Minimum of five ESPNU games

Basketball
Minimum 60 games on ESPN or ESPN2
49 regular season games - 41 conference and eight home non-conference
11 BIG EAST Championship games

110 additional regular season games broadcast on the remaining ESPN platforms

80 games on ESPN Regional (66 conference and 14 home non-conference)
30 conference games on ESPNU/ESPN360

Minimum of 10 conference or non-conference games on CBS
The above gives the BIG EAST a minimum grand total of 180 television games each year.

The BIG EAST will continue to be featured each week during the conference season on ESPN's Big Monday. A new element to the agreement will allow ESPN to also feature a BIG EAST Conference match up on Thursday each week. The agreement also provides that each BIG EAST team have a minimum of 10 games telecast on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic or ERT

Any numbers mentioned?

Sounds good but what are the financial numbers? All of us want to know the actual numbers.

ESPN360 really blows. Why don't they make it free for everyone's sake?

MichaelSavage Wrote:Any numbers mentioned?

I don't see them.

I like the Saturday night football feature for our "Marquee game"...but I could do without the Sunday night stuff

--no $$$s in the press release


Jackson

MichaelSavage Wrote:Any numbers mentioned?

Financials were not disclosed in the releases. As I mentioned in an earlier thread, financials are rarely disclosed on these deals. I'm sure numbers will leak over the next few days. Here's the ADs who were on the negotiating committee for the contract:

Daryl Gross (Syracuse)
Vince Nicastro (Villanova)
Bob Mulcahy (Rutgers)
Tom Jurich (Louisville)
Jeff Hathaway (Connecticut)

Anyone know where we are at now on the current deal in terms of how many football appearances? I'm assuming the # of TV slots went up, just what like to know how much


Jackson

Im very happy with the increase TV coverage. The fact that we are going to have TWO televised games on ABC,ESPN or ESPN2 in championship week is very nice exposure for the league.

Jackson1011 Wrote:Anyone know where we are at now on the current deal in terms of how many football appearances? I'm assuming the # of TV slots went up, just what like to know how much


Jackson

Exactly what I'd like to know. There was ZERO comparison to the current deal in the press release not to mention they did not disclose the contract numbers.

It's my fault for not being schooled up, but would anyone care to really determine how much better this deal is compared to the last by doing a side by side analysis of TV appearances?

Quote:The fact that we are going to have TWO televised games on ABC,ESPN or ESPN2 in championship week is very nice exposure for the league.

-- We have that now....I think its Uconn/UL and WVU/Rutgers this yr

Quote:Exactly what I'd like to know. There was ZERO comparison to the current deal in the press release not to mention they did not disclose the contract numbers.

-- I would also like to know how many guranteed slots on ABC we have....at least there are no Wed, Tues night games...I really hate that we agreed to that Sunday night stuff though


Jackson

This is what I copied off their press release:

In football:

# ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will carry a total of 17 games each season, the highest guaranteed total for ESPN and ABC in the history of the conference.
# On Championship Saturday in December, one game will appear on ABC or ESPN with a second game shown on ESPN2.
# There will be four BIG EAST games featured on ESPN's Thursday night package. At least one game will be part of ESPN's Saturday Prime Time series.
# The BIG EAST will provide two games for ESPN on Sunday nights.
# ESPN Regional will continue to produce and distribute its Game of the Week package that is syndicated throughout BIG EAST markets and beyond. The nation's largest college football regional network, ESPN Regional's BIG EAST package reaches more than 30 million homes. Most of these games are also offered as part of the ESPN GamePlan pay subscription service.
# ESPNU will carry a minimum of five home games.

According to Big East site we had FIFTEEN HOME games on ABC,ESPN or ESPN2 last year

Four on ABC, Five on ESPN and SIX on ESPN2

Anyone know when this deal starts? Is it next yr?


Jackson

Cubanbull Wrote:According to Big East site we had FIFTEEN HOME games on ABC,ESPN or ESPN2 last year

Four on ABC, Five on ESPN and SIX on ESPN2

Mike T is amazing. 2 whole, entire more games will be broadcast. Until I see the numbers I'll hold judgement.

L-yes Wrote:

Cubanbull Wrote:According to Big East site we had FIFTEEN HOME games on ABC,ESPN or ESPN2 last year

Four on ABC, Five on ESPN and SIX on ESPN2

Mike T is amazing. 2 whole, entire more games will be broadcast. Until I see the numbers I'll hold judgement.

Your AD was one of the negotiating committee members. ;-)

Just looking at the bball side for a moment....4-5 games on ESPN or ESPN 2 every week doesn't strike me as being real different then what we had before when we only had 14 teams....still seems below what the ACC gets....the real difference here is it seems a lot of our stuff is going to be on ESPNU and ESPN classic.


Jackson

L-yes Wrote:Until I see the numbers I'll hold judgement.

Well, look at it this way: if the $$$ isn't good enough to keep the conglammeration together, you know what will happen in 2010.