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Big Ten announces deals with Fox, CBS, NBC through 2029-30, including championship game splits and basketball details
Fox will carry four conference championship games during this span, with CBS getting two and NBC getting one.
Notre Dame reportedly likely to remain independent amid NBC Big Ten deal
Notre Dame and Michigan might be renewing their rivalry sooner rather than later.
CBS’ Big Ten deal will reportedly let them keep their 3:30 p.m. ET SEC slot in 2023
Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated reports that "The Big Ten’s deal will be arranged in a way to allow CBS to fulfill its SEC duties in the first year of the contract."
Six questions now that ESPN and the Big Ten are going their separate ways
ESPN reportedly exits Big Ten negotiations, turns down $380 million a year package offer
The Big Ten is set to no longer air on ESPN networks in its next wave of media deals.
Big Ten reportedly ‘finalizing’ media rights deals with Fox, CBS, NBC
ESPN is on the verge of being without Big Ten college football and basketball games for the first time in 40 years.
Jim Harbaugh calls for players to get a cut of Big Ten media deal
"They're the ones signing the mega TV deals, and a new one is coming in 2024. Why can't that be a NIL deal right from the Big Ten?"
FBS AD says Fox and ESPN are “quietly” driving realignment by relaying valuations: “We’re not picking random schools.”
"They really don’t like to be known as deciding who is in what league, but don’t think there aren’t conversations of, ‘If we take this property, how much value are they going to bring?’ We’re not picking random schools. … They just don’t want the optics of them deciding, but the money is coming from them. They have to tell the league or someone (the TV value of schools)."
ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro says they’re still in talks with Big Ten: “We are very much in it right now.”
"We enter these discussions understanding that we can’t get everything and that we’re going to proceed with both discipline and thoughtfulness. So I can’t tell you how this is going to play out. We are very much in it right now."
With Fox reaching an extension with the Big Ten, what happens now for ESPN and other possible rights suitors?
Fox reportedly set to be Big Ten’s main media partner
What other networks will get Big Ten rights?
Navigate projects SEC and Big Ten per-school payouts will be $40-50 million clear of rest of Power Five by 2026
Navigate's projections suggest the SEC and Big Ten will still be far ahead of the ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12 even after the next round of TV deals.
