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ESPN Snags SEC Sports From CBS With 10-Year Pact - Variety
The deal is valued at around $300 million a year, according to people familiar with the matter, and will ensure that, starting in 2024, every SEC football and basketball game airs on a TV network owned by Disney. ESPN already had a longstanding deal with the SEC, but CBS had first choice of games during its more than two-decade association with the college conference. ESPN’s new ten-year pact could be valued at around $3 billion over its entire term. CBS had been estimated to be paying $55 million each year for the rights.
Under terms of the pact and one that ESPN already had with the conference, the sports networks will carry more than 1,950 SEC games each year across the conference’s 21 sports on ESPN networks and SEC Network. Both will end after the 2033-2034 season.
What’s more, ABC will air an SEC-controlled football game each week beginning in 2024, including a regular late-afternoon kickoff. In addition, ESPN will have the ability to feature marquee SEC games on ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” for the first time. The SEC Football Championship will air on ABC in the late afternoon each season.
The deal is valued at around $300 million a year, according to people familiar with the matter, and will ensure that, starting in 2024, every SEC football and basketball game airs on a TV network owned by Disney. ESPN already had a longstanding deal with the SEC, but CBS had first choice of games during its more than two-decade association with the college conference. ESPN’s new ten-year pact could be valued at around $3 billion over its entire term. CBS had been estimated to be paying $55 million each year for the rights.
Under terms of the pact and one that ESPN already had with the conference, the sports networks will carry more than 1,950 SEC games each year across the conference’s 21 sports on ESPN networks and SEC Network. Both will end after the 2033-2034 season.
What’s more, ABC will air an SEC-controlled football game each week beginning in 2024, including a regular late-afternoon kickoff. In addition, ESPN will have the ability to feature marquee SEC games on ABC’s “Saturday Night Football” for the first time. The SEC Football Championship will air on ABC in the late afternoon each season.
