We're rich, bitch!
The league office did something right.
It may never admit when officials screw up. It may not fine teams for losing their bowl games and embarassing the rest of the conference. But it can apparently strike gold with a TV deal.
Here are the details from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The executive summary is that there won't be a TV network devoted solely to the SEC because there won't need to be. ESPN will damn near do that on its own.
Every conference football game will be televised, three times as many basketball games will be shown as are now, and ESPN/ABC take over the basketball tournament semis and championship game. In fact, all SEC championship games will be televised by ESPN networks except for football, which stays with CBS.
With the contract giving the league $150 million per year, each team should take home over $10 million from ESPN alone. That would leave about $30 million for the league office to maintain operations and give a bonus to whoever negotiated this jewel of a deal. Each school received $10.2 million total from the conference last year.
Still, the best part of the deal - any way you slice it - is that Raycom is axed completely. That means we only have one more season of watching games in anti-HD and listening to Grade A morons with mics. ESPN will take over those games in 2009.
Glooooooooorious!
It may never admit when officials screw up. It may not fine teams for losing their bowl games and embarassing the rest of the conference. But it can apparently strike gold with a TV deal.
Here are the details from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The executive summary is that there won't be a TV network devoted solely to the SEC because there won't need to be. ESPN will damn near do that on its own.
Every conference football game will be televised, three times as many basketball games will be shown as are now, and ESPN/ABC take over the basketball tournament semis and championship game. In fact, all SEC championship games will be televised by ESPN networks except for football, which stays with CBS.
With the contract giving the league $150 million per year, each team should take home over $10 million from ESPN alone. That would leave about $30 million for the league office to maintain operations and give a bonus to whoever negotiated this jewel of a deal. Each school received $10.2 million total from the conference last year.
Still, the best part of the deal - any way you slice it - is that Raycom is axed completely. That means we only have one more season of watching games in anti-HD and listening to Grade A morons with mics. ESPN will take over those games in 2009.
Glooooooooorious!
Posts
0 Comments:
Post a Comment