Quote:Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN
MWC & ESPN finalizing 7-year media rights deal, increasing MWC media rights deal w/CBS & ESPN to $18M annually

So there's that. SO much for the MWC big payday from secondary TV rights.

I know its wrong, and kharmas a beatch, but to all the people who kept howling for UH to join the MWC. After paying out Boise State, there won't be much more than a $1 million each.

Quote:Matt Sarzyniak ‏@mattsarz
Wonder if that MWC-ESPN deal means NBCSN will have no FBS football next year. Try to stay in game or does EPL, F1, MLS & IRL fill the time?

Also makes me wonder how much room is actually on ESPN for all these games? ESPN now has every FBS conference except CUSA. NBCSN has no FBS football whatsoever.

Is that ESPN deal for the BSU games and the 2nd tier to be farmed out with NBC or ??? still?

CCG included? CBS hold the rights to that.

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN
MWC deal w/ESPN: up to 22 football games (including all Boise State home games) & 25 men's hoops games annually

(03-07-2013 04:52 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  Is that ESPN deal for the BSU games and the 2nd tier to be farmed out with NBC or ??? still?

Yes. It's for everything. See McMurphy's follow up tweet I just posted.

ESPN blew their wad on all the conferences that matter to them.

(03-07-2013 04:43 PM)UHCougar Wrote:  I know its wrong, and kharmas a beatch, but to all the people who kept howling for UH to join the MWC. After paying out Boise State, there won't be much more than a $1 million each.

so 1.5 mill instead of 1 mill sounds good to me since neither you or I get a dime of either contract. I'm guessing Fresno will be in one of those Boise bonus games so that would be 500K to us as well. Plus it seems only these boards care about the money, not regular fans, they just see that the old WAC and old CUSA are back together.

The only news worth while is that we're back on ESPN, not just cbss and nbcs and comcast. So people will finally see us again and my bro in law won't have to purchase NBCS for a day to get me to go to my sis in law's birthday while Fresno is playing for a share of the MWC title.

Oh gosh I wonder where all the Wyoming fans have gone lmao.

(03-07-2013 04:54 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

(03-07-2013 04:52 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  Is that ESPN deal for the BSU games and the 2nd tier to be farmed out with NBC or ??? still?

Yes. It's for everything. See McMurphy's follow up tweet I just posted.

So no bonuses for Sat. games or any other espn game?

Quote:The conference still has to negotiate the rights to its conference championship football game, which would bring more revenue to the league.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...ng-sources

It was reported a couple of weeks ago that the CCG would only be about $1M.

(03-07-2013 04:59 PM)Fresno St. Alum Wrote:  

(03-07-2013 04:54 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

(03-07-2013 04:52 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  Is that ESPN deal for the BSU games and the 2nd tier to be farmed out with NBC or ??? still?

Yes. It's for everything. See McMurphy's follow up tweet I just posted.

So no bonuses for Sat. games or any other espn game?

Those bonuses are internal to the conference, not from the TV partner. It's a way to pay those on TV more than those who do not get on TV.

Wait!

Brian Murphy retweeted
Jeremy Fowler @JFowlerCBS 1h
Mountain West notified membership this week that secondary TV rights deal should. be completed soon, possibly next few days
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So the CBS & ESPN is only for 1st tier

Very interesting to see ESPN back on board with the MWC.

It was ESPN's refusal to pay the MWC more than 7 million per year in TV rights back on 2005 that led to the formation of the Mountain Network.

Most of the G5 is lined up in some capacity with ESPN

MW: ESPN/CBS
A12: ESPN/CBS
MAC: ESPN
CUSA: CBS/Fox
SBC: ESPN

The MAC is up next with a negotiating window starting in 2015. Could NBC come up with a big offer (15 million per year) for the MAC?

(03-07-2013 04:59 PM)CommuterBob Wrote:  

Quote:The conference still has to negotiate the rights to its conference championship football game, which would bring more revenue to the league.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...ng-sources

It was reported a couple of weeks ago that the CCG would only be about $1M.

ccg worth 1 mill if it's on Sat. that would be 500K bonus to each w/ no sharing?

(03-07-2013 05:01 PM)Louis Kitton Wrote:  Very interesting to see ESPN back on board with the MWC.

It was ESPN's refusal to pay the MWC more than 7 million per year in TV rights back on 2005 that led to the formation of the Mountain Network.

Most of the G5 is lined up in some capacity with ESPN

MW: ESPN/CBS
A12: ESPN/CBS
MAC: ESPN
CUSA: CBS/Fox
SBC: ESPN

The MAC is up next with a negotiating window starting in 2015. Could NBC come up with a big offer (15 million per year) for the MAC?

Doubt it. That would be more than CUSA is getting. Can't see it. Maybe 8-10 mil.

(03-07-2013 05:00 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  Wait!

Brian Murphy retweeted
Jeremy Fowler @JFowlerCBS 1h
Mountain West notified membership this week that secondary TV rights deal should. be completed soon, possibly next few days
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So the CBS & ESPN is only for 1st tier

Roughly 35 games to sell for first and second tier.

(03-07-2013 05:00 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  Wait!

Brian Murphy retweeted
Jeremy Fowler @JFowlerCBS 1h
Mountain West notified membership this week that secondary TV rights deal should. be completed soon, possibly next few days
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So the CBS & ESPN is only for 1st tier

woohoo we get more money, meh, I'm just happy we're on ESPN again so people will know we exist. So are we gonna bump MAC and SBC out of Tues and Wed. games while reclaiming Fri or fighting w/ A12 for Fri. ACC can have Thurs since that's an NFL night.

A-12 hasn't negotiated a conf champ game yet, correct?

And is their deal for 1st tier, 2nd tier....what are the comparisons?

(03-07-2013 05:00 PM)MWC Tex Wrote:  Wait!

Brian Murphy retweeted
Jeremy Fowler @JFowlerCBS 1h
Mountain West notified membership this week that secondary TV rights deal should. be completed soon, possibly next few days
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So the CBS & ESPN is only for 1st tier

The ESPN deal IS the secondary TV Rights deal.