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Sankey had better be playing chess than checkers- the league took on two teams without a bump in payout. Hopefully he will have them bent over a barrel in the next round of negotiations.
Well the viewer numbers have been bonkers- much higher than SEC numbers last year, and CBS is way down. Partly because their B1G games suck, and partly because the 2nd tier SEC game at 3:30/2:30 is cutting in.

That’s exactly what you need for your next media deal.

re: Big Ten on CBS continues to fail

Posted by 20ag07 on 10/18/24 at 9:36 am
The SEC package is stronger.

21.1M across 5 games Vs 18.8M for B1G in week 7.

13.5M across 3 games vs 12.3M for B1G in week 6.

22.8 across 4 games vs 10M for B1G in week 5.



Why would you make a post about something you’re uninformed about, when it would take less time to look up and see that Texas is on the 2025 schedule than it did for you incorrectly post that they weren’t?

re: Big Ten on CBS continues to fail

Posted by 20ag07 on 10/16/24 at 1:45 pm
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Earlier in the week, I read the Ohio St/Oregon game drew 13M viewers and stablized (meaning continuous watching) at 11M.
13M was the peak. The rating number quoted is always the average across the 3+ hour window.

re: Heather dinich

Posted by 20ag07 on 10/16/24 at 12:04 am
She’s been covering the committee for ESPN since day 1. Her job isn’t really to know football, it’s to report on the committee’s process and get color from them where she can. Nobody else devotes their entire time to that, as they are more busy covering the actual sports.

I don’t care for her, but I don’t see anybody you’d want doing it actually wanting the role of covering the committee rather than the sport itself.

re: 10/19 TV Ratings - Over or Under

Posted by 20ag07 on 10/15/24 at 3:55 pm
The thing is, you need fans outside of those fan bases to commit to 8 straight hours of football.

When 2 big viewerships happen in a week, the B1G is always a big piece of that.

The top 2 SEC games have been doing 12M combined. The CBS primetime double header last year combined for 17M, as did this years Bama/UGA & OU/Auburn.

I know Texas fans think they bring a lot to the table, but 20% over the best of the best weekends is a taller order than you might think.

re: 10/19 TV Ratings - Over or Under

Posted by 20ag07 on 10/15/24 at 3:07 pm
Bama/Tenn did 8M in the afternoon last year.

Bama/UGA is the high-water mark this year at 12M.

So 20M between the two is conceivable, but not a given.

Two games in the same day going over 8M is fairly unusual.

re: Big 10 on CBS

Posted by 20ag07 on 9/12/24 at 5:57 am
-Having the game of the week in prime time, rather than the mid-afternoon CBS slot has been good.
-Having an earlier idea on kickoff teams has been great.
-Having the A game being called by Herbie/Fowler has been an upgrade from Gary/Brad.

If I were a B1G fan, the network picking shuffle would drive me bonkers. Some weeks Fox gets first pick and puts their big game at noon. Some weeks CBS goes first and puts the big game mid-day. Some weeks NBC goes first, and their scheduling is all over the place. (And getting stuck on an NBC broadcast rn is the worst).

I watched a chunk of IA/IA State, and it’s still just weird to hear Gary and the theme music with non-SEC teams. Gary sounds just not into it.

Yeah, it’s not like your stadium hold 30K fewer fans.
He has the best job in college football.

He makes $9M/year with little to no pressure.

Leaving to go to A&M was one thing- he’s not leaving that job for Arky.

re: Ok, the Jeff Kent cutaways...

Posted by 20ag07 on 6/22/24 at 10:31 pm
We’re not talking enough about his time on Survivor, honestly.
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One word - Stankey. Mike Slive was too smart for this stupid stuff.
Mike Slive was the one one who engineered the long-term CBS deal, which became the most undervalued deal in sports history.

He was sitting at the helm when CBS refused to change its contract with the SEC with the additions of A&M/Mizzou, while ESPN did.

Pretending like Mike Slive didn’t sign his fair share of short-sighted deals in the modern era is complete idiocy.
Jimmy Sexton remains undefeated.

Like who on earth did he convince OU they’d be bidding against?

That man is still making bank riding on a “recruits must think you’ll be here for all of your tenure”, when both 1)college kids can go wherever they want and 2) Coaches are getting fired with 8 years and $70M left on the contract the recruit was looking at.

And still, ADs and BORs are flinching whenever Jimmy Sexton picks up the phone.

It’s amazing.