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Big 12 Football (at least) rights due for renegotiation soon...

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Morgan Wick

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Ran into this while wondering what college football conference deals were extant: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sports/16145150.htm

•Big 12: Current deal with ABC runs through 2007; the negotiation process for a new network deal will start when this season ends. The current agreement with Fox Sports [Net] goes through 2011.
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As I write this the end of the season is a few hours old, making this somewhat timely.

Hmm... might Fox enter regular-season college football by hooking up Big 12 coverage with pre-existing FSN coverage? The bowl they already had, the Cotton Bowl, does already include a Big 12 contestant...

(ducks flames)
 
I think Fox is going to have to air some type of regular season package if they are going to improve their coverage of the big games. I think the Big 12 could be a good possibility.
 
Right but not all time on Saturday is taken up by Baseball during September and October. There's room for at least a game a week isn't there?
 
I think Fox could pick up some limited number of games during the fall. If they did, I suspect they'd try to put them in prime time on some weekends.
 
Hi everyone:
Buddy Hayes said:
The only snag is, Fox is committed to baseball in September and October.
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They could air a baseball-football doubleheader on Saturdays to overcome the snag. For example, this would suit people in places like Oklahoma well since they have no MLB team in the state and the closest team they have is the Texas Rangers. No problem at all.

They could move baseball to Sundays in September and air baseball-football doubleheaders there too on weeks in which they don't have the NFL doubleheader or any other sporting event like a rodeo.

Just a couple thoughts :D

Cheers :D
 
When NBC had both the NFL and the World Series, they did parlay the two in an NFL doubleheader followed by baseball.

If memory serves...and it oft doesnt....I beleive the Jets were playing in one of two NBC 4 PM ET games that ran really long....and because it was the New York market, among several that weren't tuned in to the Series, the net and the MLB compromised and managed to bring the New York audience in just in time to see the first pitch...
 
Who cares about FOX

They have MLB enough said.

Besides their FSN networks need all of the Big 12 it can get if want's to stay

competitive with ESPN.

My prediciton is that the Big 12 will stay with ESPN on ABC, not ABC.

I also think that once the SEC is done with it's contract with CBS, ESPN on ABC

will take a run at it. If the Big 12 can go to any other network it would either

be CBS or NBC.
 
FSN covers many other sports in the Big 12, not only on their FSN national, but the Southwest, and Midwest nets as well. Lots of local sponsorship money comes in all year...

Now..if the Big 12 wants to develop their own channel...like the Big Ten, sure....although me thinks that with the saturation advertising on FCS about the Big Ten Channel,..and not ESPN....Fox is going to give ESPN/ABC a run for its money
 
oldvnewschool said:
I also think that once the SEC is done with it's contract with CBS, ESPN on ABC

will take a run at it.
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I'd be very suprised to see that happen. Why would the SEC trade in CBS, who shows each game to a national audience, for ESPN on ABC, which would be just another game in their regional package? That just doesn't make any sense.
 
They wouldn't. The SEC has a nice package right now. An early game on Lincoln Financial, syndicated throughout the entire southeast, followed by the CBS national feed. Some weekends, ESPN will have an SEC game as well. No sense changing anything on any parties part...
 
Studio20 said:
When NBC had both the NFL and the World Series, they did parlay the two in an NFL doubleheader followed by baseball.
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Which is what Fox does now. We're talking about college football towards the end of the MLB season, when MLB is usually on in the daytime.

oldvnewschool said:
Who cares about FOX

They have MLB enough said.

Besides their FSN networks need all of the Big 12 it can get if want's to stay

competitive with ESPN.
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Which is why Big 12 on Fox is a good idea. It would only be taking away from what ABC shows now, and think of the synergy! They could do a "game of the week" a la the SEC on CBS. I think ABC currently does two Big 12 games; move one of them to FSN and actually increase and improve the Big 12 on FSN.

My prediciton is that the Big 12 will stay with ESPN on ABC, not ABC.

I also think that once the SEC is done with it's contract with CBS, ESPN on ABC

will take a run at it. If the Big 12 can go to any other network it would either

be CBS or NBC.
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I agree with other posters who think you're insane for thinking the SEC would even consider moving off CBS and onto ABC. (Actually, the SEC's rights are next up after this - they only run through 2008.)

The Big 12 on either CBS or NBC, which has only one other game now, sounds good, and might be attractive to an NBC coming off losing NASCAR. But early on, NBC has late-season golf tournaments to cover, and for two weekends in September the Big 12 on CBS would have to work around US Open coverage.

The great thing about Fox is that, for now, for all the prominence of their sports division, it's all baseball, the NFL, and NASCAR, with a little BCS. So chances are, there's room on the schedule for your sport.

But try to keep in mind, this is all speculation for now, and probably will be until around June...
 
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