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First ... Timing.

Let's remember that the B1G .39 versus the SEC .66 is up for renegotiation. You are an idiot if you don't distinguish that. The SEC is 9 months old; the B1G gets reopened within months. Bet that the number is near the SEC or higher. And, maybe the rollout from bringing in NJ & MD is quite done either. Whereas the SEC started out with a set Team roster from Day One. Important to know the details.

Second ... Fox1

Sure we get it Travis; you work for them and want to trumpet their success. Explaining that you are hungry for more content. Hmmm ... we just saw where you aren't going to GROW. The NBE is drawing like specs of attention to the TV sets of America. Somehow, you need posture your content to be watchable.

Third ... we are hearing that the ACC network isn't going to happen. The Pac 12 also is reopening soon for renegotiation. There's no way in my limited knowledge that I see the ACC zzooming past the Pac 12. Third place is a long way from the SEC and what I suspect will be the B1G new revenue marker.

Fourth ... if he is doing this every year, it will be interesting to see year-to-year growth or decline.
 
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Hopefully, no one catches up with ESPN for a long time.

The legacy of ESPN in Bristol is underappreciated. Might as well start putting up historical markers.
 
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FS1 needs content and has money. The B1G network is losing badly to the SEC network.

We need to do something to help these people as a community service.

If I'm reading the article correctly, only subscriber fees are counted. The B1G may be losing badly on that front but the game changer for the B1G was and is the amount of advertising revenue which is quite beyond even the most wildly optimistic projections. I still believe the B1G has a built-in revenue advantage because of winter--people just flat watch more television and the farther north, the higher the numbers.

Football may "drive the bus" but it's the relentless, year-round content that stimulates advertiser buying and turns a network into a money machine. Basketball, hockey, et al--these may not make a ton of money like a football game, but cranking money out in smaller amounts over time is fine, too, because people are watching B1G more and more as time goes on. The question is: will anyone actually watch the SEC Network outside of football programming? Time will tell.
 
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Hopefully, no one catches up with ESPN for a long time.

The legacy of ESPN in Bristol is underappreciated. Might as well start putting up historical markers.
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If I'm reading the article correctly, only subscriber fees are counted. The B1G may be losing badly on that front but the game changer for the B1G was and is the amount of advertising revenue which is quite beyond even the most wildly optimistic projections. I still believe the B1G has a built-in revenue advantage because of winter--people just flat watch more television and the farther north, the higher the numbers.

Football may "drive the bus" but it's the relentless, year-round content that stimulates advertiser buying and turns a network into a money machine. Basketball, hockey, et al--these may not make a ton of money like a football game, but cranking money out in smaller amounts over time is fine, too, because people are watching B1G more and more as time goes on. The question is: will anyone actually watch the SEC Network outside of football programming? Time will tell.

No it isn't they haven't made squat in advertising yet.
 
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So basically ESPN has everyone else beat seven fold. Welp.
 
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Hopefully, no one catches up with ESPN for a long time.

The legacy of ESPN in Bristol is underappreciated. Might as well start putting up historical markers.

Don't forget NBC Sports in Stamford. I love that network.
 

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Hopefully, no one catches up with ESPN for a long time.

The legacy of ESPN in Bristol is underappreciated. Might as well start putting up historical markers.

Why do you hate UConn athletics?
 
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The SECN's numbers should be indirectly good news for the ACC. While it wouldn't be as valuable as the SECN, the ACCN would draw good numbers just from the footprint the schools are in. Add in another basketball and a couple of more football schools and that'll mean content through the whole academic year, when you factor in the Olympic Sports, which the ACC is strong in.

The Big Ten would be fine with adding Oklahoma and Kansas to finish up realignment.
 
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The SECN's numbers should be indirectly good news for the ACC. While it wouldn't be as valuable as the SECN, the ACCN would draw good numbers just from the footprint the schools are in. Add in another basketball and a couple of more football schools and that'll mean content through the whole academic year, when you factor in the Olympic Sports, which the ACC is strong in.

The Big Ten would be fine with adding Oklahoma and Kansas to finish up realignment.
Only 1 in the west unless Texas is tied and requires Okie but methinks they already have their unannounced and private eastern add and are just shopping for a southern or western partner for equal divisions!! Ala RU waiting for Md.
 
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We all live in our delusions.

And that is what makes CR such gratifying entertainment. It is a sort of mass hysteria, yet with individual delusions.

And you know what? If someone had put on a board, six years ago, that Rutgers would be playing in the Big Ten soon, posters would have been vectoring in the guys wearing white jackets.

It's the aura of "anything is possible" and nothing is delusional that let's us speak of Houston, Tulane, Virginia, VT, Kansas, Oklahoma, BYU, etc.
 
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We all live in our delusions.

And that is what makes CR such gratifying entertainment. It is a sort of mass hysteria, yet with individual delusions.

And you know what? If someone had put on a board, six years ago, that Rutgers would be playing in the Big Ten soon, posters would have been vectoring in the guys wearing white jackets.

It's the aura of "anything is possible" and nothing is delusional that let's us speak of Houston, Tulane, Virginia, VT, Kansas, Oklahoma, BYU, etc.

It's really not that interesting.
 
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If it isn't of interest, the board wouldn't have 120,000 posts.
 
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If it isn't of interest, the board wouldn't have 120,000 posts.

We're interested because of how it affects UConn. Our desperation is like a steaming pile of euthanized bird flu afflicted chicken carcasses and it attracts alot of flies.
 
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The SECN's numbers should be indirectly good news for the ACC. While it wouldn't be as valuable as the SECN, the ACCN would draw good numbers just from the footprint the schools are in. Add in another basketball and a couple of more football schools and that'll mean content through the whole academic year, when you factor in the Olympic Sports, which the ACC is strong in.

The Big Ten would be fine with adding Oklahoma and Kansas to finish up realignment.

The CT DMA is 30%+ larger than Kansas City and almost 2x of Oklahoma City. Did I mention that we are nestled between NYC and Boston?
 

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FS1 is complete garbage. They are only achieving a $1 a HH because of their leverage with FoxNews. Of all these sports channels, which one of these gets the Weather Channel treatment first (ie Verizon Fios dumped the weather channel this spring over pricing and looks to be a permanent impasse)? clearly FS1 if they can decouple FoxNews.

This Fox blogger has inadvertently made the case ala carte channel options. No one should be paying more than CBSN's rate for lousy FS1.

Is there a channel in America with a worse subscriber price to viewer's ratio?
 

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Someone else's list....

Network
Subscriber Fee (monthly) Number of homes (thousands) Annual Revenue (millions)
ESPN $5.75 94,500 $6,521
TNT $1.28 95,400 $1,465
NFL Network $1.22 72,031 $1,054
ESPN2 $0.74 94,500 $839
TBS $0.63 96,700 $731
Fox Sports 1 $0.68 84,900 $693
SEC Network $0.64* 87,000 $668
Big Ten Network $0.44* 58,000 $306
NBC Sports Network $0.27 81,500 $264
Pac-12 Network $0.80 26,000 $250
MLB Network $0.25 69,625 $209
ESPNEWS $0.23 74,413 $205
NBA TV $0.27 59,420 $193
ESPNU $0.21 74,579 $188
NHL TV $0.35 43,000 $181
CBS Sports Network $0.25 53,000 $159
Tru TV $0.10 90,771 $109
Fox Sports 2 $0.16 36,062 $69
Galavision $0.02 65,469 $16
BeIN Sport USA $0.10 10,000 $12
 

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My takeaway is that there are 1.3 million morons who pay $10/month for WWE.

Hell, that means anything is possible, right?
 
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