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    Reports: Big Ten and FOX agree to half of the conference's media rghts up for bid. http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Daily/Closing-Bell/2016/04/19/Big-Ten.aspx?
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    FS1 doesn't have many live events in prime time outside of MLB in a certain Saturday night stretch, UFC, MotoCross, Monster Jam, few NASCAR dates and college football.
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    He needs some to reign him in and he is not a talented nor as smart as Bomani or LeBatard. He is like a black Chris Russo starter kit. He was part of the dysfunction in PHX and doesn't admit it, but rather tells Shaq or Steve Nash stories. He is not going to have another gig in the NBA, and every time he gives his opinions is why. When he walked out on Jorge Sedano on a Sunday in February is a reason why he is on a short leach, but could be OK for him since FS1 would quickly hire him since Jamie Horowitz has been given the OK to make FS1 more loke FOX News Channel.
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    NBC to use Marv Albert/Doug Collins/Craig Sager for Olympic Men's Basketball coverage and Marc Zumoff/Ann Meyers/Ros Gold-Onwude for the Women.
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    The fallout was immediate for the shirt seller.
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    I just look at Simmons as just attempting to follow what others try. In this case, his buddy Adam Carolla when CBS fired him in 2009 when he was a semi-replacement for Stern. Same $hit, but lacks Adam's hustle as Adam can at least get a weekend crowd at a comedy club or small theater but Simmons doesn't even try to do such events even with a service like Paranoid Fan.
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    There are reports that Facebook and the NFL were off on the split of ad revenue, but there is a man more important to all negotiations... Anthony Noto. Currently, Noto is the CFO for Twitter, but inbetween stints at Goldman Sachs, he was the NFL's CFO.
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    The costs associated with the BTN (Big Ten Network) are not "peanuts". They were large enough for the conference presidents/chancellors to suspend network profit sharing/distribution for two years. Plus, even with adding more schools, the individual slice of the pie gets smaller. FOX gets 51% of the profits currently, so even with adding schools in population rich states, 20 "investors" will split the remaining 49%.
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    So Simmons is doing his best to "bring the band back together", but that band didn't make money in its first run. He is going to rely on Medium as their advertising network for the website.
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    There are a few items which "CLEstones" and the Twitter user really overlook. 1- Grant of Rights agreements for those currently contracted. 2- The next B1G TV contract may not increase as much as previously thought. The Twitter poster seemed to not mirror what SBJ's John Ourand wrote about the dealings about two weeks ago: http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2016/03/21/Media/Big-Ten-rights.aspx? 3- The BTN: There are costs in adding studios/equipment for added schools which suspends the sharing of revenues. The conference did it for two years after adding Rutgers/Maryland thus it would be suspended again for any new additions. http://www.jconline.com/story/mike-carmin/2015/07/16/btn-profits-increase-big-ten-revenue/30226149/ 4- The B1G is unique in that football gate receipts for conference gamrs are part of separate revenue sharing agreement where the top revenue schools give to the lower ones. 35% of the net gate (~$1MM max.) goes into a pool, then gets split up evenly at season's end. 5- Big XII: Their football coaches meetings are the first week of May and their general Spring Meeting begins on May 31. Any decision(s) on a conference football title game or expansion/succession would be talked about then from OU president, Dr. David Boren.
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    They are two different channels. TWC SportsNet LA is co-owned by Guggenheim, the Dodgers ownership group. TWC SportsNet, which airs the Lakers, Sparks and Galaxy is fully owned by TWC.
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    Aside from Awful Announcing, there are some other sites for sports media news. Sports Media Watch Sports Radio PD (Home of the Podcast About Sports Radio, which typically has a sports radio host, but does have announcers on it.) SI Media Podcast (The podcast with Ivan Manziel, current ESPN college football writer, whose son committed suicide last year shows another side of how ESPN operates and deals with people.)
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    The Big Ten Conference expexts to distribute that money mentioned NOT the Big Ten Network. In fact, while BTN is profitable, the Purdue number you posted only has $1 million from BTN profit sharing. Plus, the Conference suspended profit sharing for two years as Rutgers and Maryland joines since building studios there is costly. The same plan would be followed in the event of any expansion. Note: While all B1G are no longer AAU members, all are "Carnegie I" institutions. Academic standing still matters. Any potential candidate would also need to be "Carnegie I".
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    The problem is that there is no relationship in more football inventory equals an increase in rights at the rate as before. Even with periodic "contract look-ins", the cable money is drying up through cord cutters or those young adults who have/never will have cable/satellite. While two Big XII presidents, Boren (OU) and Gee (WVU) are hot on expansion and have looked at Cincinnati since late 2014, Boren told UC president that the school would not come close to having an equal share. Also, even without a network, the ACC will be #3 in TV revenue passing the Big XII. As for the ESPN/ACC Newtork, ESPN pushed back the $45M penalty for not establishing it pushed back to at least 2017 for the simple fact that it cannot get traction in terms of carriage despite that the ACC footprint has more households than any other Power 5 conference.
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    Notre Dame hockey is moving for the 2017-18, not next season. The thought is thay Arizona State will become the 8th team.
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    ^^^Yes! I hit "Quote" in response to you and it crashed...again.
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    Still doesn't deal with the issues between Broward County and the Panthers as the team still wants $5.5M in county tourist tax revenue.
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    Wrong league thread for my original comment, but does NC State have an option to buy and operate the arena?
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    I've earned a degree from Michigan, but you're just making $hit up now. First, Desmond Howard, then your debunked Richard Nixon "fact", now this.Attendance aside, hockey is not a major sport due to the small number of participanting schools. Heck, it is on the lower tier for the Capital One Cup. Track and soccer are on the upper tier and UCLA has won both of those while Michigan has not.
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    Desmond Howard never played defense. You have confused him with Charles Woodson.
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    The Grapevine isn't the best bus route from Dec-Feb. When it becomes the CA-99, it's a foggy mess.
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    They probably won't have many home games from late November to December too. NFR (rodeo) will boot them out around Thanksgiving for two weeks, their will be a NCAA holiday tournament to be booked and to end the year UFC come in on the last Saturday night.
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    Actually, it was the university president. That said, it has been common knowledge that the Big XII had some of their membership visit Cincinnati in last December.
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    San Jose Sharks had a unique birth. Not sure the NHL would announce to the world such a precedent though, axing teams so it could keep expansion $ on the table. Isn't this kind of the "cleveland deal"? NFL dissolves (or, "suspends operations" - whatever) the Browns, then "expands" to Baltimore (with the entire Browns roster and front office), then re-expands back to Cleveland with Browns 2.0. I can't recall if the Ravens had to pay an expansion or relo fee, or if Browns 2.0 had to pay an expansion or "re-activation" fee, but if so, then the precedent is set. Kinda. Sorta. Obviously the intent was totally different - the NFL's situation was more about 'preserving history', while the LOLNHL's would just be about money. Both the Ravens and Titans paid a relocation fee of $29M. http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/bal-modell020996-story.html#page=1 When Al Lerner brought the Browns back, he paid an expansion fee of $530M. The following year, Bob McMair paid a $700M expansion fee for the Texans. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/07/sports/pro-football-nfl-goes-back-to-houston-for-700-million.html
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    There have been multiple city councils and multiple elections since then approval of the arena construction. Glendale still votes to keep the team. There has been a mayoral change... Glendale still votes to keep the team. The city and its government has had ample opportunities to cut ties yet still doesn't. Don't blame the "squatter" here, blame the bank!
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