deadspin.com - 11/19/2008
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Since 2007 Fox has broadcast the BCS Games. Sure, this was a little awkward because Fox didn't carry college football on the network during the regular season, but it worked. Kind of. Now, ESPN has done what ESPN usually does — gone and outbid the competition for the rights. (Doesn't it ...
sports.espn.go.com - 11/18/2008
bizoffootball.com - 11/19/2008
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bizoffootball.com —
ESPN has reached an extensive agreement with the
Bowl Championship Series (BCS), granting exclusive TV, radio, digital,...
international and marketing rights for 15 BCS games from January 2011 through January 2014. It includes the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar Bowls each season and the BCS National ...
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ESPN and BCS Reach Four-Year Agreement
suntimes.com - 11/19/2008
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suntimes.com —
All-powerful and all-consuming, ESPN has nobody to challenge
it Do you blame somebody for doing a job...
too well? Do you care who or what it is that does the job, what the entity's motivation or philosophy is or what its long-range goals or ...
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The ESPN empire is always right :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES ...
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Blogpoll Roundtable: Potpourri Edition
Addicted To Quack —
... Well, first, ESPN will be the TV network showing the BCS starting in 2011. Some have proclaimed this will stop a playoff. I think there is little logical basis for that conclusion. The main reason is that ESPN loves the bowls, as does everyone else making money off of that, and they won't want to see that end. ...
ESPN, why?
Kuklas Korner —
... ESPN, consider the following in light of the deal announced this week that adds college football’s Bowl Championship Series to the ESPN/ABC lineup from 2011 to 2014:
With this deal ESPN/ABC will now televise 29 of the 34 match-ups. Check it out for yourself at this year’s bowl television schedule. Go ahead and plug in ESPN for every Fox telecast except the Cotton Bowl. Bowl season monopoly—thy name is ESPN.
That from Deadspin writer Clay Travis.
With all that college football ...
How ESPN Could Get the Champions League Back — And Much More
EPL Talk —
... by Richard Sandomir, ESPN earns a whopping $4.3 billion from cable and satellite subscribers every year. This not only insulates ESPN from economic hardship, but it gives the WWL a huge war chest that it can use to outbid any other network for any sports property it wants to air. ESPN recently outbid Fox for the much-maligned Bowl Championship Series by more than $100 million. If ESPN wanted to take the Olympics from NBC or the NCAA Basketball Championship from CBS, it could. No problem. ...
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BCS discussing possible move from Fox to ESPN
usatoday.com 11/11/2008 — Conference commissioners and Barry Frank of IMG have been meeting in Chicago since Sunday. Most of the commissioners left on Monday, but the ACC's John Swofford, this year's BCS coordinator, stayed behind to iron out details, according to several ...
Is cable the new home of champions?
sportsbusinessjournal.com 11/17/2008 — ESPN poised to get BCS without a fight By JOHN OURAND Staff writer Sports television is on the cusp of a seismic shift if the BCS follows through with its plan to spurn the power of broadcast television and put all four of its bowl games on ESPN, the ...
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