No Big Ten on ESPN?  Is the conference taking a risk with new tv deal?
Channel: Winning Cures Everything
Date: 2022-08-12

The new Big 10 tv deal includes FOX, CBS, and NBC... but ESPN is out of the running.  Is this a risk for the Big Ten?  Will ESPN be able to ignore them the same way they did the NHL and more in the past?

Bob Thompson, former Fox Sports President, (@RLTSports on Twitter) joined the show to talk about media rights for the Big Ten, ACC, Big 12, Pac 12, College Football Playoff Expansion, value of specific CFB time slots, Notre Dame, realignment, expansion, G5 tv deals, contracts and more!

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Auto Transcription:
luckily I get to chat with you a couple of days after all the Big 10 media writes new's came out now, reportedly the Big 10 is gonna have a noon game on Fox 3, 30 eastern time game on CBS and then a prime time game on NBC with some tier three games streaming on peacock, some exclusivity there, whatever it is.
 The biggest thing that we know currently is that ESPN will not be broadcasting victim games for the first time.
 And what like four decades now that's on its surface, it sounds like a huge deal.
 However, is it that important these days for a conference to be involved with ESPN and the current media climate basically is the Big 10 risking relevancy or are they just too big for that?
 I think they're too big for that.
 Um you know, if you look at the big 10 deal, at least what's been announced and you know, until it actually comes out as official from the conference, I still like the hedge the bets a little bit, but you know, it on the outset, it's the anti streaming package.
 I mean, you've got three broadcast networks that virtually everyone gets or can get if you have a Tv.
 And so that's, there's nothing on cable, nothing on streaming per se yet.
 I think that the three windows on the over the air networks, you know, it's, it sets up just like the NFL  and then you'll have some FS one games, there'll probably be some Peacock element.
  the ESPN part is interesting I think, I guess at some point ESPN decided, you know, it just wasn't worth it.
 They'll go ahead and and ride with the SEc games and the Big 12 and the pac 12, the package they were offered by the conference might not have been something they were able to accommodate because of existing window requirements with the sec.
 So, You know, and I would say this never say never on ESPN as it relates to big 10 basketball.
 That's the question I keep asking people is, where's the basketball going?
 Because Fox hasn't really gotten big on the broadcast network with basketball.
 They've got some Big East have had some pac 12 and some Big 12 but not a lot.
 And most of its run on FS one CBS might have a package of Big 10 as they have a long history of Big 10 basketball.
 NBC has virtually no basketball right now period. So I find it hard to believe they're gonna be in.
 So maybe there's a package that, , you know, it's carved out basketball now.
 That would definitely make sense.