The Big Ten Lands New Televised Mega Bill With Fox Nbc And Cbs But Not Espn

The Big Ten Conference has completed a monumental set of media rights deals, expected to be worth more than $1 billion annually, with Fox, CBS and NBC — and notably without ESPN. The Big Ten’s new deals will make it the richest conference in college sports, just weeks after the conference announced it would add the University of Southern California and UCLA from the Pacific-12. The new deals, which begin in 2023 and were announced Thursday morning, will give the conference an NFL-like schedule spread across three broadcast networks on college football Saturdays with designated windows for each — noon on Fox. 3:30 p.m. on CBS. and primetime on NBC. It is the first time in four decades that the conference will not have an official partnership with ESPN. The additions of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, which will give the conference a footprint in the lucrative Los Angeles television market, boosted the value of the deals as the multibillion-dollar industry of college sports navigates a rapidly changing landscape. Beginning with the 2024 season, the Big Ten, once synonymous with the Midwest, will have 16 teams from New Jersey to California. It is a national conference in a sport once prized for its regional appeal. “What expansion has done for us and for our fans is really shrink the United States, shrink our country,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, “where people recognize that they’re going to be able to watch our teams to compete and Their schools compete morning, noon and night and at unique times of the year, such as Black Friday and from coast to coast. That will be really exciting.” Other Big Ten sports, including men’s and women’s basketball, will be broadcast on Fox (and FS1), CBS and NBC, along with the Big Ten Network, in which Fox owns a 61% stake, and the Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. Offers are valid for the 2029-30 season. Even in a more fragmented media environment, ESPN remains the nation’s dominant sports network. His daily talk show guides the day’s sports talk and retains the rights to the College Football Playoff. ESPN, for decades, has been the key to televising the Big Ten across the country. “We’re a staple of college athletics, and especially college football,” Warren said. “I think everyone recognizes that it’s important that we all work together and that we all have a collaborative voice. I am confident that where we are in the Big Ten, we will be able to have a voice in shaping the future of college athletics both on and off the field.” Fox and FS1 will continue to carry a large chunk of the conference’s football games: 24 to 27 games in 2023, then 30 to 32 games in subsequent years. In 2023, CBS will broadcast seven football games. The network is still tied to the SEC through a contract that calls for the conference’s top game to be carried exclusively by CBS at 3:30 p.m. Starting in 2024, the Big Ten will occupy that afternoon window all season, and CBS will broadcast 14 or 15 games each year, including one on the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving. The power and peril of being Adam Schefter, the ultimate NFL insider NBC will broadcast 14 to 16 football games each season, introducing programming described as “Big Ten Saturday Night,” an attempt to mirror the success the network had with “Sunday Night Football.” These three major networks will share the rights to broadcast the Big Ten football title game with Fox televising the game in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029 and CBS (2024, 2028) and NBC (2026) televising the marquee event the other years. Fox also has the rights to 45 men’s basketball games each season and can broadcast select women’s basketball games and the Olympics. CBS will televise 9 to 11 men’s basketball games in 2023-24 and then increase to 15 games, including 13 conference games, in the remaining years of the deal. The network will also broadcast the men’s and women’s basketball conference tournament championship game, along with the men’s semifinals. NBC’s Big Ten inventory includes only football, but Peacock, the network’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, will carry dozens of contests in other sports. The platform is scheduled to have eight football matches. The Peacock will televise 32 men’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, in the 2023-24 season, and then increase to 47 men’s basketball games (32 conference games) in subsequent years. The Peacock will also air the opening night pair of men’s basketball conference games. The Peacock will carry 30 women’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, and the opening night of the women’s conference basketball tournament doubleheader. The platform can also broadcast up to 40 live events per year for Olympic sports. BTN will carry 38 to 41 football games in 2023 and then up to 50 games from 2024 to 2029. The network will broadcast at least 126 men’s basketball games and at least 49 women’s basketball games. During the conference men’s basketball tournament, four Thursday games and four quarterfinals will be shown on BTN. For the women’s tournament, BTN will have four matches on Thursday, four quarterfinals and two semifinals. BTN will continue to be the conference’s primary home for Olympic sports programming. Warren, the conference’s commissioner since 2020, said this summer that he has been considering Big Ten expansion since he interviewed for the job. So when the conference welcomed UCLA and USC this summer, the jolt to the college sports landscape didn’t shake the negotiations. He made the idea of ​​expansion, not just the specific schools, in the first term papers discussed with the networks, he said. “We’re a historic conference,” Warren said. “I think people recognize that we’re trying to make sure we honor our tradition, but also be smart and thoughtful about cutting-edge progressive ideas.” Rights fees illustrate the staggering amount of money filling the coffers of college athletic programs, a development that can be traced back through the Big Ten and its television history. In 1996, the conference inked a 10-year, $100 million deal with ESPN that put nearly all of its conference games on the network and was the first of its kind. In 2007, the conference launched the Big Ten Network in partnership with Fox in a deal that brought the conference $2.8 billion over 20 years. The Pac-12, ACC and SEC have all followed the Big Ten and launched their own branded networks, with varying degrees of success. The Big Ten and SEC remain well ahead in terms of rival conference revenue. The SEC signed a deal with ESPN worth $3 billion over 10 years, according to the Sports Business Journal, for the premier Saturday game beginning in 2024. (Other parts of that deal put the value of the SEC’s media rights at about 700 million dollars each year.) In the evolving world of college athlete rights, Warren said, he’s open to talking with players about possible revenue-sharing models from new deals. “I think all these open issues need to be put on the table to be discussed legitimately,” he said.

title: “The Big Ten Lands New Televised Mega Bill With Fox Nbc And Cbs But Not Espn Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-17” author: “Aubrey Soto”

The Big Ten Conference has completed a monumental set of media rights deals, expected to be worth more than $1 billion annually, with Fox, CBS and NBC — and notably without ESPN. The Big Ten’s new deals will make it the richest conference in college sports, just weeks after the conference announced it would add the University of Southern California and UCLA from the Pacific-12. The new deals, which begin in 2023 and were announced Thursday morning, will give the conference an NFL-like schedule spread across three broadcast networks on college football Saturdays with designated windows for each — noon on Fox. 3:30 p.m. on CBS. and primetime on NBC. It is the first time in four decades that the conference will not have an official partnership with ESPN. The additions of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, which will give the conference a footprint in the lucrative Los Angeles television market, boosted the value of the deals as the multibillion-dollar industry of college sports navigates a rapidly changing landscape. Beginning with the 2024 season, the Big Ten, once synonymous with the Midwest, will have 16 teams from New Jersey to California. It is a national conference in a sport once prized for its regional appeal. “What expansion has done for us and for our fans is really shrink the United States, shrink our country,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, “where people recognize that they’re going to be able to watch our teams to compete and Their schools compete morning, noon and night and at unique times of the year, such as Black Friday and from coast to coast. That will be really exciting.” Other Big Ten sports, including men’s and women’s basketball, will be broadcast on Fox (and FS1), CBS and NBC, along with the Big Ten Network, in which Fox owns a 61% stake, and the Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. Offers are valid for the 2029-30 season. Even in a more fragmented media environment, ESPN remains the nation’s dominant sports network. His daily talk show guides the day’s sports talk and retains the rights to the College Football Playoff. ESPN, for decades, has been the key to televising the Big Ten across the country. “We’re a staple of college athletics, and especially college football,” Warren said. “I think everyone recognizes that it’s important that we all work together and that we all have a collaborative voice. I am confident that where we are in the Big Ten, we will be able to have a voice in shaping the future of college athletics both on and off the field.” Fox and FS1 will continue to carry a large chunk of the conference’s football games: 24 to 27 games in 2023, then 30 to 32 games in subsequent years. In 2023, CBS will broadcast seven football games. The network is still tied to the SEC through a contract that calls for the conference’s top game to be carried exclusively by CBS at 3:30 p.m. Starting in 2024, the Big Ten will occupy that afternoon window all season, and CBS will broadcast 14 or 15 games each year, including one on the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving. The power and peril of being Adam Schefter, the ultimate NFL insider NBC will broadcast 14 to 16 football games each season, introducing programming described as “Big Ten Saturday Night,” an attempt to mirror the success the network had with “Sunday Night Football.” These three major networks will share the rights to broadcast the Big Ten football title game with Fox televising the game in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029 and CBS (2024, 2028) and NBC (2026) televising the marquee event the other years. Fox also has the rights to 45 men’s basketball games each season and can broadcast select women’s basketball games and the Olympics. CBS will televise 9 to 11 men’s basketball games in 2023-24 and then increase to 15 games, including 13 conference games, in the remaining years of the deal. The network will also broadcast the men’s and women’s basketball conference tournament championship game, along with the men’s semifinals. NBC’s Big Ten inventory includes only football, but Peacock, the network’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, will carry dozens of contests in other sports. The platform is scheduled to have eight football matches. The Peacock will televise 32 men’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, in the 2023-24 season, and then increase to 47 men’s basketball games (32 conference games) in subsequent years. The Peacock will also air the opening night pair of men’s basketball conference games. The Peacock will carry 30 women’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, and the opening night of the women’s conference basketball tournament doubleheader. The platform can also broadcast up to 40 live events per year for Olympic sports. BTN will carry 38 to 41 football games in 2023 and then up to 50 games from 2024 to 2029. The network will broadcast at least 126 men’s basketball games and at least 49 women’s basketball games. During the conference men’s basketball tournament, four Thursday games and four quarterfinals will be shown on BTN. For the women’s tournament, BTN will have four matches on Thursday, four quarterfinals and two semifinals. BTN will continue to be the conference’s primary home for Olympic sports programming. Warren, the conference’s commissioner since 2020, said this summer that he has been considering Big Ten expansion since he interviewed for the job. So when the conference welcomed UCLA and USC this summer, the jolt to the college sports landscape didn’t shake the negotiations. He made the idea of ​​expansion, not just the specific schools, in the first term papers discussed with the networks, he said. “We’re a historic conference,” Warren said. “I think people recognize that we’re trying to make sure we honor our tradition, but also be smart and thoughtful about cutting-edge progressive ideas.” Rights fees illustrate the staggering amount of money filling the coffers of college athletic programs, a development that can be traced back through the Big Ten and its television history. In 1996, the conference inked a 10-year, $100 million deal with ESPN that put nearly all of its conference games on the network and was the first of its kind. In 2007, the conference launched the Big Ten Network in partnership with Fox in a deal that brought the conference $2.8 billion over 20 years. The Pac-12, ACC and SEC have all followed the Big Ten and launched their own branded networks, with varying degrees of success. The Big Ten and SEC remain well ahead in terms of rival conference revenue. The SEC signed a deal with ESPN worth $3 billion over 10 years, according to the Sports Business Journal, for the premier Saturday game beginning in 2024. (Other parts of that deal put the value of the SEC’s media rights at about 700 million dollars each year.) In the evolving world of college athlete rights, Warren said, he’s open to talking with players about possible revenue-sharing models from new deals. “I think all these open issues need to be put on the table to be discussed legitimately,” he said.

title: “The Big Ten Lands New Televised Mega Bill With Fox Nbc And Cbs But Not Espn Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-26” author: “Miguel Johnson”

The Big Ten Conference has completed a monumental set of media rights deals, expected to be worth more than $1 billion annually, with Fox, CBS and NBC — and notably without ESPN. The Big Ten’s new deals will make it the richest conference in college sports, just weeks after the conference announced it would add the University of Southern California and UCLA from the Pacific-12. The new deals, which begin in 2023 and were announced Thursday morning, will give the conference an NFL-like schedule spread across three broadcast networks on college football Saturdays with designated windows for each — noon on Fox. 3:30 p.m. on CBS. and primetime on NBC. It is the first time in four decades that the conference will not have an official partnership with ESPN. The additions of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, which will give the conference a footprint in the lucrative Los Angeles television market, boosted the value of the deals as the multibillion-dollar industry of college sports navigates a rapidly changing landscape. Beginning with the 2024 season, the Big Ten, once synonymous with the Midwest, will have 16 teams from New Jersey to California. It is a national conference in a sport once prized for its regional appeal. “What expansion has done for us and for our fans is really shrink the United States, shrink our country,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, “where people recognize that they’re going to be able to watch our teams to compete and Their schools compete morning, noon and night and at unique times of the year, such as Black Friday and from coast to coast. That will be really exciting.” Other Big Ten sports, including men’s and women’s basketball, will be broadcast on Fox (and FS1), CBS and NBC, along with the Big Ten Network, in which Fox owns a 61% stake, and the Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. Offers are valid for the 2029-30 season. Even in a more fragmented media environment, ESPN remains the nation’s dominant sports network. His daily talk show guides the day’s sports talk and retains the rights to the College Football Playoff. ESPN, for decades, has been the key to televising the Big Ten across the country. “We’re a staple of college athletics, and especially college football,” Warren said. “I think everyone recognizes that it’s important that we all work together and that we all have a collaborative voice. I am confident that where we are in the Big Ten, we will be able to have a voice in shaping the future of college athletics both on and off the field.” Fox and FS1 will continue to carry a large chunk of the conference’s football games: 24 to 27 games in 2023, then 30 to 32 games in subsequent years. In 2023, CBS will broadcast seven football games. The network is still tied to the SEC through a contract that calls for the conference’s top game to be carried exclusively by CBS at 3:30 p.m. Starting in 2024, the Big Ten will occupy that afternoon window all season, and CBS will broadcast 14 or 15 games each year, including one on the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving. The power and peril of being Adam Schefter, the ultimate NFL insider NBC will broadcast 14 to 16 football games each season, introducing programming described as “Big Ten Saturday Night,” an attempt to mirror the success the network had with “Sunday Night Football.” These three major networks will share the rights to broadcast the Big Ten football title game with Fox televising the game in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029 and CBS (2024, 2028) and NBC (2026) televising the marquee event the other years. Fox also has the rights to 45 men’s basketball games each season and can broadcast select women’s basketball games and the Olympics. CBS will televise 9 to 11 men’s basketball games in 2023-24 and then increase to 15 games, including 13 conference games, in the remaining years of the deal. The network will also broadcast the men’s and women’s basketball conference tournament championship game, along with the men’s semifinals. NBC’s Big Ten inventory includes only football, but Peacock, the network’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, will carry dozens of contests in other sports. The platform is scheduled to have eight football matches. The Peacock will televise 32 men’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, in the 2023-24 season, and then increase to 47 men’s basketball games (32 conference games) in subsequent years. The Peacock will also air the opening night pair of men’s basketball conference games. The Peacock will carry 30 women’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, and the opening night of the women’s conference basketball tournament doubleheader. The platform can also broadcast up to 40 live events per year for Olympic sports. BTN will carry 38 to 41 football games in 2023 and then up to 50 games from 2024 to 2029. The network will broadcast at least 126 men’s basketball games and at least 49 women’s basketball games. During the conference men’s basketball tournament, four Thursday games and four quarterfinals will be shown on BTN. For the women’s tournament, BTN will have four matches on Thursday, four quarterfinals and two semifinals. BTN will continue to be the conference’s primary home for Olympic sports programming. Warren, the conference’s commissioner since 2020, said this summer that he has been considering Big Ten expansion since he interviewed for the job. So when the conference welcomed UCLA and USC this summer, the jolt to the college sports landscape didn’t shake the negotiations. He made the idea of ​​expansion, not just the specific schools, in the first term papers discussed with the networks, he said. “We’re a historic conference,” Warren said. “I think people recognize that we’re trying to make sure we honor our tradition, but also be smart and thoughtful about cutting-edge progressive ideas.” Rights fees illustrate the staggering amount of money filling the coffers of college athletic programs, a development that can be traced back through the Big Ten and its television history. In 1996, the conference inked a 10-year, $100 million deal with ESPN that put nearly all of its conference games on the network and was the first of its kind. In 2007, the conference launched the Big Ten Network in partnership with Fox in a deal that brought the conference $2.8 billion over 20 years. The Pac-12, ACC and SEC have all followed the Big Ten and launched their own branded networks, with varying degrees of success. The Big Ten and SEC remain well ahead in terms of rival conference revenue. The SEC signed a deal with ESPN worth $3 billion over 10 years, according to the Sports Business Journal, for the premier Saturday game beginning in 2024. (Other parts of that deal put the value of the SEC’s media rights at about 700 million dollars each year.) In the evolving world of college athlete rights, Warren said, he’s open to talking with players about possible revenue-sharing models from new deals. “I think all these open issues need to be put on the table to be discussed legitimately,” he said.

title: “The Big Ten Lands New Televised Mega Bill With Fox Nbc And Cbs But Not Espn Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-21” author: “Miguel Truxillo”

The Big Ten Conference has completed a monumental set of media rights deals, expected to be worth more than $1 billion annually, with Fox, CBS and NBC — and notably without ESPN. The Big Ten’s new deals will make it the richest conference in college sports, just weeks after the conference announced it would add the University of Southern California and UCLA from the Pacific-12. The new deals, which begin in 2023 and were announced Thursday morning, will give the conference an NFL-like schedule spread across three broadcast networks on college football Saturdays with designated windows for each — noon on Fox. 3:30 p.m. on CBS. and primetime on NBC. It is the first time in four decades that the conference will not have an official partnership with ESPN. The additions of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, which will give the conference a footprint in the lucrative Los Angeles television market, boosted the value of the deals as the multibillion-dollar industry of college sports navigates a rapidly changing landscape. Beginning with the 2024 season, the Big Ten, once synonymous with the Midwest, will have 16 teams from New Jersey to California. It is a national conference in a sport once prized for its regional appeal. “What expansion has done for us and for our fans is really shrink the United States, shrink our country,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, “where people recognize that they’re going to be able to watch our teams to compete and Their schools compete morning, noon and night and at unique times of the year, such as Black Friday and from coast to coast. That will be really exciting.” Other Big Ten sports, including men’s and women’s basketball, will be broadcast on Fox (and FS1), CBS and NBC, along with the Big Ten Network, in which Fox owns a 61% stake, and the Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. Offers are valid for the 2029-30 season. Even in a more fragmented media environment, ESPN remains the nation’s dominant sports network. His daily talk show guides the day’s sports talk and retains the rights to the College Football Playoff. ESPN, for decades, has been the key to televising the Big Ten across the country. “We’re a staple of college athletics, and especially college football,” Warren said. “I think everyone recognizes that it’s important that we all work together and that we all have a collaborative voice. I am confident that where we are in the Big Ten, we will be able to have a voice in shaping the future of college athletics both on and off the field.” Fox and FS1 will continue to carry a large chunk of the conference’s football games: 24 to 27 games in 2023, then 30 to 32 games in subsequent years. In 2023, CBS will broadcast seven football games. The network is still tied to the SEC through a contract that calls for the conference’s top game to be carried exclusively by CBS at 3:30 p.m. Starting in 2024, the Big Ten will occupy that afternoon window all season, and CBS will broadcast 14 or 15 games each year, including one on the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving. The power and peril of being Adam Schefter, the ultimate NFL insider NBC will broadcast 14 to 16 football games each season, introducing programming described as “Big Ten Saturday Night,” an attempt to mirror the success the network had with “Sunday Night Football.” These three major networks will share the rights to broadcast the Big Ten football title game with Fox televising the game in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029 and CBS (2024, 2028) and NBC (2026) televising the marquee event the other years. Fox also has the rights to 45 men’s basketball games each season and can broadcast select women’s basketball games and the Olympics. CBS will televise 9 to 11 men’s basketball games in 2023-24 and then increase to 15 games, including 13 conference games, in the remaining years of the deal. The network will also broadcast the men’s and women’s basketball conference tournament championship game, along with the men’s semifinals. NBC’s Big Ten inventory includes only football, but Peacock, the network’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, will carry dozens of contests in other sports. The platform is scheduled to have eight football matches. The Peacock will televise 32 men’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, in the 2023-24 season, and then increase to 47 men’s basketball games (32 conference games) in subsequent years. The Peacock will also air the opening night pair of men’s basketball conference games. The Peacock will carry 30 women’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, and the opening night of the women’s conference basketball tournament doubleheader. The platform can also broadcast up to 40 live events per year for Olympic sports. BTN will carry 38 to 41 football games in 2023 and then up to 50 games from 2024 to 2029. The network will broadcast at least 126 men’s basketball games and at least 49 women’s basketball games. During the conference men’s basketball tournament, four Thursday games and four quarterfinals will be shown on BTN. For the women’s tournament, BTN will have four matches on Thursday, four quarterfinals and two semifinals. BTN will continue to be the conference’s primary home for Olympic sports programming. Warren, the conference’s commissioner since 2020, said this summer that he has been considering Big Ten expansion since he interviewed for the job. So when the conference welcomed UCLA and USC this summer, the jolt to the college sports landscape didn’t shake the negotiations. He made the idea of ​​expansion, not just the specific schools, in the first term papers discussed with the networks, he said. “We’re a historic conference,” Warren said. “I think people recognize that we’re trying to make sure we honor our tradition, but also be smart and thoughtful about cutting-edge progressive ideas.” Rights fees illustrate the staggering amount of money filling the coffers of college athletic programs, a development that can be traced back through the Big Ten and its television history. In 1996, the conference inked a 10-year, $100 million deal with ESPN that put nearly all of its conference games on the network and was the first of its kind. In 2007, the conference launched the Big Ten Network in partnership with Fox in a deal that brought the conference $2.8 billion over 20 years. The Pac-12, ACC and SEC have all followed the Big Ten and launched their own branded networks, with varying degrees of success. The Big Ten and SEC remain well ahead in terms of rival conference revenue. The SEC signed a deal with ESPN worth $3 billion over 10 years, according to the Sports Business Journal, for the premier Saturday game beginning in 2024. (Other parts of that deal put the value of the SEC’s media rights at about 700 million dollars each year.) In the evolving world of college athlete rights, Warren said, he’s open to talking with players about possible revenue-sharing models from new deals. “I think all these open issues need to be put on the table to be discussed legitimately,” he said.

title: “The Big Ten Lands New Televised Mega Bill With Fox Nbc And Cbs But Not Espn Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-05” author: “Kristi Youmans”

The Big Ten Conference has completed a monumental set of media rights deals, expected to be worth more than $1 billion annually, with Fox, CBS and NBC — and notably without ESPN. The Big Ten’s new deals will make it the richest conference in college sports, just weeks after the conference announced it would add the University of Southern California and UCLA from the Pacific-12. The new deals, which begin in 2023 and were announced Thursday morning, will give the conference an NFL-like schedule spread across three broadcast networks on college football Saturdays with designated windows for each — noon on Fox. 3:30 p.m. on CBS. and primetime on NBC. It is the first time in four decades that the conference will not have an official partnership with ESPN. The additions of USC and UCLA to the Big Ten, which will give the conference a footprint in the lucrative Los Angeles television market, boosted the value of the deals as the multibillion-dollar industry of college sports navigates a rapidly changing landscape. Beginning with the 2024 season, the Big Ten, once synonymous with the Midwest, will have 16 teams from New Jersey to California. It is a national conference in a sport once prized for its regional appeal. “What expansion has done for us and for our fans is really shrink the United States, shrink our country,” said Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren, “where people recognize that they’re going to be able to watch our teams to compete and Their schools compete morning, noon and night and at unique times of the year, such as Black Friday and from coast to coast. That will be really exciting.” Other Big Ten sports, including men’s and women’s basketball, will be broadcast on Fox (and FS1), CBS and NBC, along with the Big Ten Network, in which Fox owns a 61% stake, and the Peacock, NBC’s streaming service. Offers are valid for the 2029-30 season. Even in a more fragmented media environment, ESPN remains the nation’s dominant sports network. His daily talk show guides the day’s sports talk and retains the rights to the College Football Playoff. ESPN, for decades, has been the key to televising the Big Ten across the country. “We’re a staple of college athletics, and especially college football,” Warren said. “I think everyone recognizes that it’s important that we all work together and that we all have a collaborative voice. I am confident that where we are in the Big Ten, we will be able to have a voice in shaping the future of college athletics both on and off the field.” Fox and FS1 will continue to carry a large chunk of the conference’s football games: 24 to 27 games in 2023, then 30 to 32 games in subsequent years. In 2023, CBS will broadcast seven football games. The network is still tied to the SEC through a contract that calls for the conference’s top game to be carried exclusively by CBS at 3:30 p.m. Starting in 2024, the Big Ten will occupy that afternoon window all season, and CBS will broadcast 14 or 15 games each year, including one on the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving. The power and peril of being Adam Schefter, the ultimate NFL insider NBC will broadcast 14 to 16 football games each season, introducing programming described as “Big Ten Saturday Night,” an attempt to mirror the success the network had with “Sunday Night Football.” These three major networks will share the rights to broadcast the Big Ten football title game with Fox televising the game in 2023, 2025, 2027 and 2029 and CBS (2024, 2028) and NBC (2026) televising the marquee event the other years. Fox also has the rights to 45 men’s basketball games each season and can broadcast select women’s basketball games and the Olympics. CBS will televise 9 to 11 men’s basketball games in 2023-24 and then increase to 15 games, including 13 conference games, in the remaining years of the deal. The network will also broadcast the men’s and women’s basketball conference tournament championship game, along with the men’s semifinals. NBC’s Big Ten inventory includes only football, but Peacock, the network’s direct-to-consumer streaming service, will carry dozens of contests in other sports. The platform is scheduled to have eight football matches. The Peacock will televise 32 men’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, in the 2023-24 season, and then increase to 47 men’s basketball games (32 conference games) in subsequent years. The Peacock will also air the opening night pair of men’s basketball conference games. The Peacock will carry 30 women’s basketball games, including 20 conference games, and the opening night of the women’s conference basketball tournament doubleheader. The platform can also broadcast up to 40 live events per year for Olympic sports. BTN will carry 38 to 41 football games in 2023 and then up to 50 games from 2024 to 2029. The network will broadcast at least 126 men’s basketball games and at least 49 women’s basketball games. During the conference men’s basketball tournament, four Thursday games and four quarterfinals will be shown on BTN. For the women’s tournament, BTN will have four matches on Thursday, four quarterfinals and two semifinals. BTN will continue to be the conference’s primary home for Olympic sports programming. Warren, the conference’s commissioner since 2020, said this summer that he has been considering Big Ten expansion since he interviewed for the job. So when the conference welcomed UCLA and USC this summer, the jolt to the college sports landscape didn’t shake the negotiations. He made the idea of ​​expansion, not just the specific schools, in the first term papers discussed with the networks, he said. “We’re a historic conference,” Warren said. “I think people recognize that we’re trying to make sure we honor our tradition, but also be smart and thoughtful about cutting-edge progressive ideas.” Rights fees illustrate the staggering amount of money filling the coffers of college athletic programs, a development that can be traced back through the Big Ten and its television history. In 1996, the conference inked a 10-year, $100 million deal with ESPN that put nearly all of its conference games on the network and was the first of its kind. In 2007, the conference launched the Big Ten Network in partnership with Fox in a deal that brought the conference $2.8 billion over 20 years. The Pac-12, ACC and SEC have all followed the Big Ten and launched their own branded networks, with varying degrees of success. The Big Ten and SEC remain well ahead in terms of rival conference revenue. The SEC signed a deal with ESPN worth $3 billion over 10 years, according to the Sports Business Journal, for the premier Saturday game beginning in 2024. (Other parts of that deal put the value of the SEC’s media rights at about 700 million dollars each year.) In the evolving world of college athlete rights, Warren said, he’s open to talking with players about possible revenue-sharing models from new deals. “I think all these open issues need to be put on the table to be discussed legitimately,” he said.