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FOX pays $25 million for Pac-12 Championship Game

Actually there is only 9 more regular season games. I'm digging the extra dough, though.

10 x 9 = 90
12 x 9 = 108

???????????

Edit: Then you divide by 2 because 2 teams are playing each game. I've got it now.
 
My only issue with Fox is their ****ty cameras - the picture quality is so much worse than any other network but for 25 million picture quality be damned! I think its a pretty good deal if you consider the BigXII game brings in an estimated 14 million in revenue.
 
Does anybody know if Ron Franklin is available?

Nope...Ron and Ben Wright are now roomates down in North Carolina, sitting around the campfire bashing chicks....

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Official Pac-12 wording is that the "other inventory" is:

Fox Sports Net (FSN) increases its 2011-12 regular season telecast package with the conference by up to six football and 10 men’s basketball games, taking into account the additions of Colorado and Utah and expansion to 12 teams.

So, Fox (the main channel) gets the CCG, while FSN gets the added inventory of football/MBB games from Colorado/Utah joining.

Basically it is the same TV access that CU already had under the FSN with the Big 12, just now through the Pac-12.

For 2011 the Pac-12 football rights will go as follow:
1) ABC/ESPN has rights to 20 games per season. They have "first choice" of games.
2) FSN has rights to 24 games now (18 previously, added 6 with the new deal). 5 games have been sublicensed to Versus, 13 windows for games on FSN. No details on the "sublicensing" impact of the added 6 games (whether they are "kept" on FSN or not). Presumably they would keep a good portion of those games.
3) Fox Sports airs the Football Championship Game.

The only portions that CU gets Pac-12 revenue sharing from is the added $14.5 million for the CCG, and whatever portion of the added revenues are attributed to them for the 2011 FSN contract. The Pac currently operates under a revenue sharing agreement that pays 60% of the revenue to teams that get TV games, it is uncertain how many of the 6 added games will be CU games at this time.

The question that I have is the "other" $10.5 million of the $25 million deal that was announced. It was stated that it was "part of a prior contractual obligation" so not sure exactly what that means. It could be an "extension" of the pricing the league got from their previous FSN deal (as in: the prior deal with 10 teams for 18 games was valued at around $1MM per game per year, so we'll bump that to $1.25 for football and $300k for each men's BB game for the added inventory). If that is the case, then there is a better chance that CU will see a greater share of this money in 2011-12.
 
2 mil is nice but fox? Fox sucks in everyway possible. As someone mentioned earlier, keep there awful NFL broadcasters away.

The Pac 12 needs to get espn on board.

Also, fox sports is no longer on direct tv since that channel has been taken down due to conflicts.
 
2 mil is nice but fox? Fox sucks in everyway possible. As someone mentioned earlier, keep there awful NFL broadcasters away.

The Pac 12 needs to get espn on board.

Also, fox sports is no longer on direct tv since that channel has been taken down due to conflicts.

as of right now this is only for 2011
 
Fox Sports (the national channel) is making a much bigger push for college athletics and football in particular. It sounds like they are really trying to cut into ESPN's hold and I'm sure that means they are going to have dedicated college announcers.

They own the Big Ten and Pac-12 championship games on the same weekend. ESPN only has the ACC, while CBS has the SEC. FSN owns the Conference USA game as well, along with their all-sports deal. Currently they also hold secondary rights deals with the Pac-10 and Big 12 through FSN.

They bid up the ACC all-sports rights this past summer, and are expected to be a major player for the Pac-12 future rights.

Commissioner Scott also would not let them just own the rights for the highest price, he would demand quality production and delivery because he knows how important it is to have a quality product aired on TV.
 
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