Excellent breakdown of TV contracts

[Seinfeld]

http://espn.go.com/blog/playbook/dollars/post/_/id/705/

A few notes...

1. The most recent ACC renegotiation with ESPN resulted in roughly a 30% annual increase from the previous deal that was just negotiated 2 years ago
2. The SEC is currently behind the Pac-12, Big 10, and ACC in terms of annual totals and it is behind those schools AND the Big 12 in per team totals.

I don't know what's going to happen, but my guess is that the SEC's renegotiation with ESPN is going to completely dwarf the previous deal. If the ACC just put together a 3.6B deal, I think the SEC will top 4B.

 

[RobbieRandolph]

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[patdog]

The increase for next year is only $1m for the whole conference. As Robbie points out that's the old sec contract. All they did was divide by 14 instead of 12. Which begs the question of when will the new deal get done? The new schools start playing in 3 months.

 

[engie]

If we remain under an amended version of the current contract, it will be worth close to $5 billion.

The renegotiations are going to put us @ $25-30 mil/yr/school for 13 remaining years.

IF we start the SEC network right now(which IMO with the b1g and PAC networks getting off the ground and gaining steam, we have to do sooner than later) the deal could be worth nearly double that.

People in the south care more, watch more, and therefore we will always make more money from the tv revenue until something drastic changes. More eyeballs, more $$. And please no one give me census data to argue the point. More people in Birmingham watched bcs games last year(minus the nc game) where the SEC wasn't even represented, than people did in Chicago(a b1g market 5x as large) when 2 b1g teams were represented. That's dominance...

 

[Seinfeld]

While I can only seem to find articles about recent tv ratings and not a simple list, everything I'm reading says that the SEC has owned about 70% of the Top 10 list for the last few years. Not only do I think that Slive is going to make sure that the new deal puts the SEC in the top spot, but I think it's going to blow other contracts away. The conference is white hot and now's the time to cash in on it. A $5B deal wouldn't shock me at all

 

[patdog]

The old deal was for about $17M per school per year. Adding A&M and Mizzou increases the TV footprint by about 50%, so I expect the new deal would be close to $23M per school before you add the additional revenue from the SEC Network that everyone knows is coming.

 

[rebelrouseri]

about the logic of signing such long term deals and then being forced to expand your league in order to re-negotiate the deals.

 

[karlchilders.sixpack]

It's in the capable hands of LT!