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fangsbites.com - 11/17/2008
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Fox Sports has dropped out of the bidding for the BCS making ESPN the exclusive home of the series. Here's a statement. FOX Sports has elected not to match an offer the BCS Group has received from ESPN to televise BCS games from 2011-2014, and plans to notify the organization by phone today. ...
sports.espn.go.com - 11/18/2008
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sports.espn.go.com —
The Bowl Championship Series is coming to ESPN
starting in January 2011....
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ESPN gets rights to BCS games starting in 2011
sports.espn.go.com - 11/18/2008
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sports.espn.go.com —
Fox Sports has pulled out of bidding to
show BCS games on television....
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Fox Sports pulls out of bidding to show BCS games
rumorsandrants.com - 11/17/2008
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rumorsandrants.com —
What happened in the college football world this
weekend? Eh, nothing much....
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College Football Roundup: This Week Didn’t Even Matter
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Breaking: FOX concedes BCS rights, ESPN the projected winner.
Sports Media Watch —
FOX Sports has bowed out of the race for the Bowl Championship Series. In a statement released Monday, FOX announced that it would not match ESPN's $125 million per year offer for the rights to the BCS, a 50% increase from the current price of $82.5 million per year. FOX had offered to pay $100 million, a 25% increase. This almost assures that ESPN will acquire the rights to the Bowl Championship Series in its entirety, starting in 2011. For its part, FOX seems to confirm that this will be the case, noting in the aformentioned statement that " ...
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