Fox Sports 1 Update

[MUPanther]

This should be interesting to follow. Big East is heavy on Wednesday nights. Also, the Pac-12 plays at times on FS1 on Wednesday.
https://comicbook.com/wwe/2019/07/18/ww ... m-aew-tnt/

[Jet915]

Got this from UCONN board:

Bumping this thread. Word is now that UConn is officially in for the 2020-2021 season that the Big East and Fox will sit down soon to work out the 20 game conference schedule and add value to the TV contract which currently runs until 2025. Kevin McNamara (Providence Journal) had mentioned potentially by 2 million a year per team which would bring the value per team to about 6 million.

In return, FOX would want the contract lengthened beyond the current 6 years. We will see where this goes.

Would be nice to see....

[Bogg]

Got this from UCONN board:

Bumping this thread. Word is now that UConn is officially in for the 2020-2021 season that the Big East and Fox will sit down soon to work out the 20 game conference schedule and add value to the TV contract which currently runs until 2025. Kevin McNamara (Providence Journal) had mentioned potentially by 2 million a year per team which would bring the value per team to about 6 million.

In return, FOX would want the contract lengthened beyond the current 6 years. We will see where this goes.

Would be nice to see....

Eh... I'm skeptical that Fox voluntarily gives up more money when they contractually have to. I don't think there's anything in the contract that triggers a full renegotiation when a member gets added, just the pro-rata increase. I could be wrong though.

[BFieldHusky]

I was the one who posted that on the Boneyard. I heard it from a source close to the program.

I am not sure how the FOX deal works logistically. But I would think there would be an increase for the expanded content since there will be 20 conference games, instead of 18. An extra BET game. Access to the UConn women, etc. How much that increase is yet to be seen. I mentioned Kevin McNamara as he usually has good info. He floated the bump to 6 million.

Either way they are going to talk. I wouldn't expect to hear anything soon though.

[Husky_U]

BField has legit sources. He's not just some scrub.

[Bogg]

BField has legit sources. He's not just some scrub.

Every time I see the handle I wonder if it's Brookfield or Bloomfield. I assume Bloomfield, but it's one of life's great mysteries.

[Husky_U]

BField has legit sources. He's not just some scrub.

Every time I see the handle I wonder if it's Brookfield or Bloomfield. I assume Bloomfield, but it's one of life's great mysteries.

I always assumed Bloomfield since it's closer to UCONN.

Bogg, you've put in some good work on that other board. Much props.

[GoldenWarrior11]

The original deal was a 12-year, $500 million deal; on average, that provided $41.6 million per year to the ten members ($4.16 million per member per year). It allowed the deal to be upgraded to $550 million if we went to eleven members, and $600 million if we went up to 12 members. So, without extending the deal - and just following parameters set forth in original deal - that would increase the average payout per year to $45.83 million per year ($4.58 million per member per year). From that, if Fox wanted to "extend" the current deal, upping the annual payout to $6 million, they would "only" need to increase the average payouts by $16.5 million per year total (around $1.65 million per member); from that increase it payouts, Fox gets an additional 40 Big East conference games (an extra two for each team, as well as the full 20 from UConn), as well as the right to an additional BE Tournament game. Not counting the access to UConn's OOC home games it will also acquire, it comes out to about 400k per "extra" contest.

I still think a BE-Fox extension gets announced next July 1st.

***EDITED for math typo***

[BFieldHusky]

BField has legit sources. He's not just some scrub.

Every time I see the handle I wonder if it's Brookfield or Bloomfield. I assume Bloomfield, but it's one of life's great mysteries.

I always assumed Bloomfield since it's closer to UCONN.

Bogg, you've put in some good work on that other board. Much props.

Brookfield guys. Lol.

And yes you have Bogg. Full credit.

Question for people. There has been much debate on the way the FOX contract works for women basketball. I know FOX controls everything on the mens side. I thought I read somewhere that FOX has control of selected women games, but not all. Can anyone clarify?

Just wondering if UConn could sell the games FOX doesn't broadcast on the womens side to SNY like they have in the past? There is a market for it.

[BFieldHusky]

The original deal was a 12-year, $500 million deal; on average, that provided $41.6 million per year to the ten members ($4.16 million per member per year). It allowed the deal to be upgraded to $550 million if we went to eleven members, and $600 million if we went up to 12 members. So, without extending the deal - and just following parameters set forth in original deal - that would increase the average payout per year to $45.83 million per year ($4.58 million per member per year). From that, if Fox wanted to "extend" the current deal, upping the annual payout to $6 million, they would "only" need to increase the average payouts by $16.5 million per year total (around $1.65 million per member); from that increase it payouts, Fox gets an additional 40 Big East conference games (an extra two for each team, as well as the full 20 from UConn), as well as the right to an additional BE Tournament game. Not counting the access to UConn's OOC home games it will also acquire, it comes out to about 40k per "extra" contest.

I still think a BE-Fox extension gets announced next July 1st.

Good write up GoldenWarrior 11. Thanks. This makes a lot of sense. Hope you don't mind but I am going to share this on the UConn board (giving you credit of course).

Would be pretty amazing to make 6 million in the Big East, while the American (WITH FOOTBALL) would make just shy of 7 million a year.