Income of Conference Networks

[GatorGray]

Clay Travis of FOX Sports crunched numbers related to sports television networks and the revenue they generate through monthly subscribers. According to the numbers shared by Travis, the SEC Network generates $547.3 million through subscriptions for the fifth highest total in the sports television industry. What about other conference networks?

The Big Ten Network pumps out a little less than $300 million ($290.2 million). The Pac-12 Network generates just $57.6 million as it continues its battles to get in more homes. ESPNU, ESPN’s college-themed network, brings in $198 million. TheSEC Network alone almost beats out all three combined. Impressive.

Actually it DOES beat out all three combined. ($547.3 vs. $545.8M)

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[hardliner]

Don't really get the point of these networks. I don't think that making people pay extra for games that used to be on regular networks is a good thing.

 

[MJWilliamson]

1. ESPN $6.61 x 94.5 million homes = $7.5 billion

2. NFL Network $1.31 x 73.6 million homes = $1.16 billion

3. FS1 .99 x 91.2 million homes = $1.08 billion

4. ESPN2 .83 x 94.5 million hiomes = $941.2 million

5. SEC Network .66 x 69.1 million homes = $547.3 million

6. Golf Channel .35 x 79.4 million homes = $332.2 million

7. NBC Sports Network .30 x 83.1 million homes = $299 million

8. Big Ten Network .39 x 62 million homes = $290.2 million

9. MLB Network .26 x 71.3 million homes = $222.5 million

10. FS2 .28 x 64 million homes = $215 million

11. NBA TV .29 x 57.2 million homes = $199 million

12. ESPNU .22 x 74.9 million homes = $198 million

13. CBS Sports Network .26 x 61 million homes = $190.3 million

14. NHL Network .32 x 37.4 million homes = $143.6 million

15. Pac 12 Network .39 x 12.3 million homes = $57.6 million

 

[GatorGray]

Don't really get the point of these networks. I don't think that making people pay extra for games that used to be on regular networks is a good thing.

It is a money grab by the conferences/schools. Instead of the money going to ESPN, it goes to the conferences and ultimately the schools.

 

[GatorGray]

Meanwhile, The Longhorn Network is All Hat, No Cattle.

Putting that number in a sports TV context, the Longhorn Network is on pace to do less revenue in 20 years than Mayweather-Pacquiao did in one night of pay-per-view boxing.)

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Why has the Longhorn Network been the farthest thing from must-see television in cable sports history? It's the programming, stupid. ESPN and Texas gambled that a couple of football games, a bevy of other less popular sporting events and rabid coverage of their local team would be as popular as oil in the Lone Star State. The problem was this: Even the most diehard Texas fan can watch only so many softball games and swim meets. Football's the life blood of televised college sports. And the Longhorn Network never had enough football to get fan demand stoked to a high level. This was a dry oil well priced as a gusher.