Clay Travis from Fox Sports put this together. Pretty remarkable that SEC Network is that big after a year? Pac-12 Network doesn't seem to be doing all that great. He says FoxSports1 is in good shape but they need more content/programming. Will be interesting if/when ACC tries to launch their network.
FS1 is for real.
Yes, I'm employed by Fox and yes it has been trendy to take online shots at our network as it made its cable debut over the past 20 months, but FS1 is now the third largest sports cable network in the country and the seventh most lucrative station on cable. Right now the business side is ahead of the content side, but that's not a bad problem to have. It's certainly better than the reverse. Now we just need to build out our programming to surround the solid sports rights we already have.
The SEC Network is nearly worth the same amount as the NBA, NHL, and MLB's Networks combined.
Those three bring in $565 million a year, the SEC Network brings in $541 million.
The SEC dwarfs the Big Ten Network, producing nearly twice the subscriber revenue.
Most still haven't realized how successful the SEC Network is. Just wait until these revenue distributions start to roll out to the individual schools. The SEC Network is a total game changer. It went from not existing nine months ago to the fifth most valuable sports network in the country in less than a year.
The Pac 12 Network is a cautionary tale.
There just isn't enough demand among Pac 12 fans to create substantial revenue. The Pac 12 has trumpeted that it's "available in" 90 million homes. But the number who actually pay for it, per SNL Kagan numbers, is just 12.3 million. If those numbers are accurate, it helps to explain why the conference only paid out $1 million extra to each school for the network last year and projects to pay the same amount this year.
The ACC wants its own network.
Does the ACC have more in common with the SEC or the Pac 12? It's probably somewhere in the middle, right? Football drove the SEC's Network. Are there really enough ACC football games that will be in high demand? ESPN executed a masterful plan to launch the SEC Network, but the SEC's channel was paired with ESPN's rights extensions. The ACC Network would be a much, much more difficult battle and it wouldn't have the other ESPN channels to pair for negotiation purposes.
Other than the potential ACC Network, it's hard to see many more sports channels coming.
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...e/the-15-most-valuable-sports-networks-050715
FS1 is for real.
Yes, I'm employed by Fox and yes it has been trendy to take online shots at our network as it made its cable debut over the past 20 months, but FS1 is now the third largest sports cable network in the country and the seventh most lucrative station on cable. Right now the business side is ahead of the content side, but that's not a bad problem to have. It's certainly better than the reverse. Now we just need to build out our programming to surround the solid sports rights we already have.
The SEC Network is nearly worth the same amount as the NBA, NHL, and MLB's Networks combined.
Those three bring in $565 million a year, the SEC Network brings in $541 million.
The SEC dwarfs the Big Ten Network, producing nearly twice the subscriber revenue.
Most still haven't realized how successful the SEC Network is. Just wait until these revenue distributions start to roll out to the individual schools. The SEC Network is a total game changer. It went from not existing nine months ago to the fifth most valuable sports network in the country in less than a year.
The Pac 12 Network is a cautionary tale.
There just isn't enough demand among Pac 12 fans to create substantial revenue. The Pac 12 has trumpeted that it's "available in" 90 million homes. But the number who actually pay for it, per SNL Kagan numbers, is just 12.3 million. If those numbers are accurate, it helps to explain why the conference only paid out $1 million extra to each school for the network last year and projects to pay the same amount this year.
The ACC wants its own network.
Does the ACC have more in common with the SEC or the Pac 12? It's probably somewhere in the middle, right? Football drove the SEC's Network. Are there really enough ACC football games that will be in high demand? ESPN executed a masterful plan to launch the SEC Network, but the SEC's channel was paired with ESPN's rights extensions. The ACC Network would be a much, much more difficult battle and it wouldn't have the other ESPN channels to pair for negotiation purposes.
Other than the potential ACC Network, it's hard to see many more sports channels coming.
http://www.foxsports.com/college-fo...e/the-15-most-valuable-sports-networks-050715
