Kirk Van Houten
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B1G Ten Media Deal is close to finish with the conference leaving ESPN
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NBC should have the rights to the UM-OSU game and air it in primetime. Fox can't be trusted with the game since they would insist on airing it at noon.
The Ohio St-Michigan game has aired at noon for decades. The Big Ten doesn’t like late November night games because of the weather (my guess late season primetime games on NBC late in the season will be California based).
Anyways, as this will include basketball as well this could in theory open up timeslots potentially for the NHL on ESPN.
Because the Big Ten is going to be in LA, they will be hard pressed to allow all their schools to host night games in late November. UCLA and USC shouldn't be treated as special because of their location. The MAC, which is also mostly Midwestern, plays night games all throughout November even though most of them are on weeknights.
Meanwhile this opens the door for the first Notre Dame road games on NBC since 1965.
Notre Dame is tied to the ACC as a non-football member through 2036, and if they join the Big Ten at that time, they will again be a non-football member if they still have their own TV deal at that point, with an agreement to play 4 Big Ten schools each year, with an annual game against USC and the others rotating on a five-year schedule.
As far as basketball goes, ESPN will just increase the inventory of games from conferences they will continue to air.
Furthermore, since the SEC will still be on CBS in 2023, the CBS-produced Big Ten games for that season should be diverted to The CW.
PCSPounder
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College sports will need every last bit of their old “traditions” moving forward from the strict amateurism era. Which won’t happen.
The Big Ten does have a disruptime opportunity to be a coast-to-coast conference that exists in every time zone and therefore has a chance to have a noon-to-night presence on Saturdays. Thing is, it appears USC and UCLA were added at the whim of Fox. If Fox will pay for a couple more western schools and a couple more eastern schools, the B1G can cement a new structure. But as I understand the rumor, what Fox did was to strike back at ESPN for “taking Texas and Oklahoma from them” by getting the B1G to take the LA schools from ESPN/ABC. To date, there’s not been a true grand plan.
The Big Ten does have a disruptime opportunity to be a coast-to-coast conference that exists in every time zone and therefore has a chance to have a noon-to-night presence on Saturdays. Thing is, it appears USC and UCLA were added at the whim of Fox. If Fox will pay for a couple more western schools and a couple more eastern schools, the B1G can cement a new structure. But as I understand the rumor, what Fox did was to strike back at ESPN for “taking Texas and Oklahoma from them” by getting the B1G to take the LA schools from ESPN/ABC. To date, there’s not been a true grand plan.
We knew the SEC felt ABC was the best move for them We now see ABC feels like the Big Ten isn’t worth the money
LadyStanley
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ESPN out of Big Ten negotiations; Fox, CBS, NBC near deals
ESPN has carried Big Ten football and basketball games for the last 40 years.
theathletic.com
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Fox already has deal in place.
I expected ABC and ESPN to lose a P5 league after gaining full control of the SEC, but it was the Big 12, not the Big Ten.
NBC should have UM-OSU so it can air at night. They are the only network that can be trusted with the game.
Meanwhile the CBS-produced B1G games in 2023 should be on The CW so that CBS can fulfill its commitment to the SEC that season.
NBC should have UM-OSU so it can air at night. They are the only network that can be trusted with the game.
Meanwhile the CBS-produced B1G games in 2023 should be on The CW so that CBS can fulfill its commitment to the SEC that season.
46zone
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FOX will continue to get the "A" game in this agreement, and Ohio State vs Michigan will continue to be a big noon game. I also highly doubt the B1G will allow for their games to be flexed to the CW.
IU Hawks fan
They call me IU
Neither the Big Ten nor the SEC will sign on to having their 2023 CBS games air regionally. The CW is a good compromise. We're at the point where major broadcast networks no longer air CFB games that are exclusive to a particular region to the US. The times ABC does air regional coverage, it is just two games and there is a reverse mirror on one of the ESPN cable channels, allowing each market to carry one game on ABC and the other on ESPN/ESPN2.
Saying The CW is not a real network is like saying Fox News is a real news network.
Saying The CW is not a real network is like saying Fox News is a real news network.
I wouldn't be surprised if NBC feels the same way I do and wants to have UM-OSU so they can air it at night.
HisIceness
This is Hurricanes Hockey
ABC probably regrets not being aggressive enough in getting the game onto Saturday Night Football which was in its first year. UM-OSU never aired on Saturday Night Football during the last 11 years ABC had the game.
IU Hawks fan
They call me IU
Nexstar is buying the CW.
(WSJ) Nexstar Nears Deal to Acquire Majority Control of CW Network | Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
"Nexstar Media Group Inc., NXST -0.47%▼ the nation’s biggest owner of local television stations, is close to a deal to acquire majority control of the CW
www.nexstar.tv
Even if they do (and they shouldn't, the deal could still fall apart at the 11th hour), Nexstar could still subcontract CBS Sports to produce sports programming on The CW, since it is longer established than Turner Sports.
IU Hawks fan
They call me IU
because of the merger of the two, the CW network has to be sold for competitive balance under FCC RegulationNexstar is buying the CW.
(WSJ) Nexstar Nears Deal to Acquire Majority Control of CW Network | Nexstar Media Group, Inc.
"Nexstar Media Group Inc., NXST -0.47%▼ the nation’s biggest owner of local television stations, is close to a deal to acquire majority control of the CW
You really know how to get 200,000 fans in the Midwest angry!
The move of UM-OSU to primetime is long overdue. They already play each other at night in sports like hockey and basketball.
GKJ
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Football is not the same as hockey and basketball. Only way it’s happening is if another B1G matchup is more important in a given year, and that would take both Ohio State and Michigan having bad years, which just isn’t going to happen for the foreseeable future.
My point is the fans in stands in mid November in Columbus or Ann Arbor might not want to get frostbite.
I was at the 1969 "Revenge" game in Ann Arbor, a 24-12 win for the home team over the #1 ranked Buckeyes. Even with a winter coat and a blanket, I was still cold sitting with a record crowd of 103,500 people on a breezy overcast day.
You are going to have the fans driving home at 10 or 11 PM. It takes a while to leave the stadium and get back to your car. I came from Toledo (1 hour away) the day of that game, but left Dayton (3 more hours away at 55 mph) the day before.
It turns cold the first time here in SE Wisconsin around October 10th or 15th. I do a 5K run around then and it was 34 F at 9 AM two years in a row before COVID hit. Ann Arbor has similar weather and Columbus turns cold about a week or two later because they are away from the Great Lakes.
The MAC plays night games all through November most of them being on weeknights notwithstanding.
