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ESPN, Big 12 Agree To Sweeping Media-Rights Deal

By John Ourand and Michael Smith

April 10, 2019


ESPN signed a sweeping media-rights deal with the Big 12 that will see ABC or ESPN carry every football championship game through ’24 and will launch a Big 12-branded area on ESPN+. In the new deal, which includes three championship games and ESPN+ rights, ESPN will pay a total of around $40M. When this agreement is added to the current media-rights deal that still has six years to run, the conference will average $22M per year, sources said. A formal announcement is expected later today.

As part of the deal, ESPN picked up the rights to three football championship games in ’19, ’21 and ’23 that Fox had declined to buy. The conference had been trying to find a media company to pay in the high teens for those games. It will appear on either ABC or ESPN depending on scheduling.

Every deal ESPN has cut recently has included a significant ESPN+ component, and this one is no different. Hundreds of events from all sports will be offered on ESPN+ under a Big 12 brand. Eight of the 10 schools will provide more than 50 exclusive events per year, including at least one football game, any spring football game and any basketball game that is not on an ESPN linear network. Texas, which has Longhorn Network, and Oklahoma, which has its own local rights deal, will not provide content to ESPN+.

Starting in '19, Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State and Oklahoma State will provide games for ESPN+. The following year, Iowa State, TCU, West Virginia and Texas Tech will participate.





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Current Thread:
 
  
BIG 12 NEWS -- SoCloseHokie 04/10/2019 09:53AM
  Forgive me for being ignorant in this matter -- Millpoint 04/10/2019 2:49PM
  I should have read the post below first -- Millpoint 04/10/2019 2:53PM
  Here is ESPN's announcement of this. -- HOO86 04/10/2019 2:46PM
  Could pac 12 break up ** -- Mercury 04/12/2019 9:11PM
  Westward expansion would be interesting, -- OU_Sooner 04/11/2019 10:21AM
  BYU's " No Sunday games" will still be an issue... -- Mr. Touchdown 04/11/2019 2:30PM
  True -- OU_Sooner 04/11/2019 2:34PM
  I thought the Big XII was not interested in BYU -- VTHokie2000 04/10/2019 1:23PM
  They would have to work around that issue. -- HOO86 04/10/2019 2:22PM
  Why? -- M-I-C 04/13/2019 2:48PM
  My Tea Leaves are not as good as yours -- M-I-C 04/15/2019 10:03PM
  True (link) -- OU_Sooner 04/17/2019 11:48AM
  I do not think you understand contracts. -- M-I-C 04/17/2019 11:42AM
  Look at this -- SoCloseHokie 04/10/2019 09:53AM

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