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AAC 2nd TV Contract/Negotiations

nelsonmuntz said:
Our athletic department is not viable over even the intermediate term. What is the end game for the athletic department?
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Miraculous invite to P5 conference - 2%
Enormous smoking crater - 98%
 
The AD will go balls to the wall until 2022-2023 when the B1G contract may cause something. Regardless, 6 years from now I'd imagine we're in another conference...either a P5 or the BE.
 
Fishy said:
Miraculous invite to P5 conference - 2%
Enormous smoking crater - 98%
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Is BEast for non-football even on the table?
 
Drew said:
My hope is that the current games that are subject to WatchESPN on the current deal are the only ones moved to ESPN+ in the next deal. My brain knows that there will be a lot more on there than that.
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So is WatchESPN going away entirely?? Is it going to be fully replaced my this ESPN + garbage in the near future? Just curious because I find myself using the Watchespn app often but won't shell out the extra $5 a month for the few football games.
 
Fishy said:
The AAC is gonna get clubbed like a baby seal in the next contract.
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"What did I ever do to you?"​

So said less colorfully, the AAC is going to be revealed for what it is, quality fill material. The AAC contract will let us know what the value is for that.

All I really want is the right to control our tier 3 rights. We can make a decent chunk of change off of that.
 
UcannUconn said:
Is BEast for non-football even on the table?
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No. Not actively. It is always possible and I would expect an open door for any talks, but there is no assurance of an invite should UConn show interest.
 
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I will admit that I did not see a Minnesota vs. Indiana football game being worth 25x what a UConn vs. Houston game was worth, but that is where the market is. The media market is telling the G5 schools to drop dead.
 
Reading some comments about Colorado and Colorado State. These two schools are more similar than I thought. Same enrollment. UC is AAU, Flagship, Space-grant; CSU is APLU, Flagship, Land-grant. UC has higher revenues and larger endowment but CSU still seems like a great candidate and has more grad students. Unfortunately. Brand new football stadium to boot. Similar in size to The Rent but on campus.
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Kolumbo said:
Reading some comments about Colorado and Colorado State. These two schools are more similar than I thought. Same enrollment. UC is AAU, Flagship, Space-grant; CSU is APLU, Flagship, Land-grant. UC has higher revenues and larger endowment but CSU still seems like a great candidate and has more grad students. Unfortunately. Brand new football stadium to boot. Similar in size to The Rent but on campus.
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On the recruiting trail CSU in FL picked up several kids that we had offered or looked at. They have been winning their share of recruiting battles at our level of player. Pros: on campus stadium, attractive state, high growth state, weather overall is a plus. I think the ingredients are here to be what UConn was in 1985.
 
CL82 said:
If games that were previously cable are getting shifted to +, this sucks for us. In the past SNY soaked up some ESPN3 content. Hopefully that continues. I worry about our content ending up on a platform that will have a relatively few viewers. I suspect the SNY games maybe be vulnerable. I don't expect Aresco to protect our interests if it results in a better deal for the league.
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I can't see ESPN being unhappy about getting paid for the local broadcast rights (a la SNY in the northeast). National stuff is absolutely at risk.

Aresco should be shipped to Dallas on a rocket if he gives up the ability for locals to buy rights, in exchange for propping up ESPN+.

Also - it wouldn't make any sense for live sports to transition to ESPN+ exclusively. ESPN gets more revenue per cable subscriber than ESPN+ subscriber. Live sports is one of the few things propping up cable at all.
 
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huskymedic said:
Nuttin really new: AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco discusses league's future, TV negotiations and more
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The league’s current television and media rights deal is up in 2020. Is there an update on any negotiations?

Aresco: “Nothing formal going on. (Two years out? :eek:) The TV discussion was important and we’re filling in our membership on what’s going on. We’re trying to identify where the competition would be and what’s our value with the assets we bring and what we could do to enhance our value. All of those things were discussed in the meeting. The league is in a great place and it’s come a long way, but now we just need to get fair value for what we offer.

“One of our presidents said that it’s agenda item 1 through 25, which is a good way to put it.

“We’ve had a great year and it’s probably the best time we ever could have picked
in terms of the value of our conference being at its highest since we reconstituted ourselves five years ago. I think we’ve got a great product and when you’ve got a great product you're confident ultimately you can figure out the right kind of TV and media.”

Sounds like there's not much demand or urgency, doesn't it?
 
CL82 said:
The league’s current television and media rights deal is up in 2020. Is there an update on any negotiations?

Aresco: “Nothing formal going on. (Two years out? :eek:) The TV discussion was important and we’re filling in our membership on what’s going on. We’re trying to identify where the competition would be and what’s our value with the assets we bring and what we could do to enhance our value. All of those things were discussed in the meeting. The league is in a great place and it’s come a long way, but now we just need to get fair value for what we offer.

“One of our presidents said that it’s agenda item 1 through 25, which is a good way to put it.

“We’ve had a great year and it’s probably the best time we ever could have picked
in terms of the value of our conference being at its highest since we reconstituted ourselves five years ago. I think we’ve got a great product and when you’ve got a great product you're confident ultimately you can figure out the right kind of TV and media.”

Sounds like there's not much demand or urgency, doesn't it?
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Gonna have to repeat what we have already done as a conf football wise in 2018 and 2019. Kind of a tall order in some respects. And it would be preferred if our conf took a big step forward in MBB.
 
pepband99 said:
I can't see ESPN being unhappy about getting paid for the local broadcast rights (a la SNY in the northeast). National stuff is absolutely at risk.

Aresco should be shipped to Dallas on a rocket if he gives up the ability for locals to buy rights, in exchange for propping up ESPN+.

Also - it wouldn't make any sense for live sports to transition to ESPN+ exclusively. ESPN gets more revenue per cable subscriber than ESPN+ subscriber. Live sports is one of the few things propping up cable at all.
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ESPN+ is what they have to develop to keep Wall Street happy. The analysits hammer Disney every quarter on the subs declining.

It has to be exclusive content or they would violate their contacts with the cable carriers.

Hadn’t thought about the inventory that gets sold to CBS or local RSNs. But yeah, that’s his only chance to show any movement in the dollar value of the contract so I’d suspect you should start building that rocket.
 
The Orlando paper is like the AAC Pravda. Stunning Steve might be on the editorial staff.
 
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Exit 4 said:
Why wouldn't they be, they are the hometown paper of the national champs by golly.
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It’s fine just funny how hard they try and prop it up. Not exactly the job of newspapers in my mind, but it’s 2018 that ship has long sailed.
 
whaler11 said:
ESPN+ is what they have to develop to keep Wall Street happy. The analysits hammer Disney every quarter on the subs declining.

It has to be exclusive content or they would violate their contacts with the cable carriers.

Hadn’t thought about the inventory that gets sold to CBS or local RSNs. But yeah, that’s his only chance to show any movement in the dollar value of the contract so I’d suspect you should start building that rocket.
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This would be a theater of the absurd, if it happens.

ESPN would be pissing off myriad subscribers who already pay $7.50 a month to get them, in the hopes they can charge $5? They would be cannabalizing their own revenue and ticking partners off at the same time.

Out of market - total different ballgame. ESPN has probably taken too long to charge for it, but I’m biased as a local fan.

The only thing this would be for the AAC is a white flag - you may as well blow it up if they can’t monetize success at all, much less make it worse with online only taking any reasonable content.
 
pepband99 said:
This would be a theater of the absurd, if it happens.

ESPN would be pissing off myriad subscribers who already pay $7.50 a month to get them, in the hopes they can charge $5? They would be cannabalizing their own revenue and ticking partners off at the same time.

Out of market - total different ballgame. ESPN has probably taken too long to charge for it, but I’m biased as a local fan.

The only thing this would be for the AAC is a white flag - you may as well blow it up if they can’t monetize success at all, much less make it worse with online only taking any reasonable content.
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Nobody but the AAC office, UCF athletic department and Orlando newspaper thinks the AAC has any success to monetize.
 
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