The conference announced a landmark 20-year agreement with Fox Cable networks in the creation of the Big Ten Channel. The channel, which will be distributed by DirecTV starting in August, 2007, will feature sports programming as well as non-athletic programming 24 hours a day. League commissioner Jim Delany and Fox Sports Networks President Bob Thompson said the channel will also be available to cable distributors throughout the Big Ten coverage area as well as nationally.
The Big Ten also extended its relationship with ABC/ESPN in a 10-year agreement that reportedly is worth $50 million per year.
2 comments:
This is a good thing.
Andy, I think you are wrong. Check out the link:
http://bigten.cstv.com/genrel/062106aad.html
10 more years of ABC/ESPN showing 41 BT FB games over the course of the season and 35 games on the BT Network. I can't see how this would result in fewer games available ...
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