(04-14-2018 12:51 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-14-2018 11:31 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(04-14-2018 10:03 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(04-14-2018 09:50 AM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  

(04-14-2018 05:47 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  As one of the least important aspects of the deal, yes.

Of course the pro sports and the movie franchises are much bigger, but this is a college sports forum.

The way your worded it, it seemed liked you were mocking the Disney buy, as if they'd spent a ton of money to pick up a handful of Big 12 games. I think that's why he responded that way, though your reply to him now indicates you didn't mean it that way.

To me, it's clear now that with the pickup of these regional FOX networks, Disney has added a non-trivial volume of college sports, including P5, content to its already substantial holdings.

What? That's not clear at all. The RSN's don't have "a non-trivial volume of college sports, including P5". They have some leftover scraps that Fox couldn't find space for on FS1. And the RSNs very likely will have to re-negotiate sublicensing agreements with Fox Sports to keep that stuff. (I think they will do so without much difficulty).

And whatever the RSNs do have, they only have local cable rights to. Which isn't especially useful for ESPN.

(Possibly QUo is being obtuse to irritate me. That's actually a pretty solid explanation.)

Scroll through the list at the end. It's a non-trivial amount of content:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybrown/...b4b5bb7ba4

The list gets less impressive when you stop to think about what the content actually IS. Fox Sports Arizona has "Arizona STate Sun Devils, other PAc 12 conference content", but not any actual football or men's basketball games. (http://thesundevils.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=429, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Arizo...m#Schedule )

So, possibly Fox SPorts ARizona has some Arizona State women's soccer, or a one-hour show with Arizona State's football coach. But I think it's fair to call that "a trivial amount of content."

The heart of the matter is what ESPN can actually DO with the RSN content. If the RSNs currently own the digital streaming rights to the games they're broadcasting, then I am wrong and everyone else is right. But I'm not convinced at all that the RSNs currently own those rights. I believe that those rights are held by the leagues. I do not believe that ESPN's owning Fox Sports Arizona allows them to put Arizona Diamondbacks games on ESPN+, because those rights are held by MLB.com.