Joe Pompliano and Yahoo Sports contributor Ross Dellenger react to TNT receiving the rights to Big 12 football and basketball games as part of their settlement with the NBA. Be sure to tune into Joe Pompliano’s Yahoo Finance Sports Report on Thursdays at 5:00pm wherever you get your podcasts.
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The NBA and Warner Brothers have been locked in a lawsuit over matching rights and their ability to match Amazon’s deal for the NBA rights, but as part of this settlement approved this week, some college football and college basketball games are also changing hands.
Ross, can you explain a little bit what’s going on here and why this is coming out of an NBA lawsuit?
Yes, that’s right.
It’s kind of a shadowed piece of the NCA NBA settlement, uh, situation is that the Big 12 uh is involved and, uh, basically, um, Warner Brothers, uh, Discovery and TNT sports in general Will, uh, we’ll get a sublicense of ESPN 13 Big 12 football games, uh, every year starting next fall, and we’ll get 15 men’s basketball games starting not this coming season but but next season.
Uh, it’s kind of described to me as a web business involved in The fact that ESPN will now get the, the TNT show within, uh, within the NBA and I’ll be able to air that show.
So, uh, it was, uh, certainly for the Big 12 side, for the college sports side, it’s, it’s huge because the conference is moving games that were football games that were, uh, scheduled for streaming only on ESPN Plus to now. linear carrier.
On TNT or TBS they might air on both.
Uh, we don’t know exactly, and we don’t know the kickoffs yet, but 10 of the 13 football games will be conference games, so there should be some pretty big games, but they’ll be scaled back probably down the pecking order. .
Fox and ESPN will continue to get their picks from uh Big 12 games each week, the first picks.
Uh, and, and then, and, and no, from what I understand, no content from Fox and ESPN on their linear platforms will be reduced.
So this is like an extra game, an extra third-tier game that would normally go to streaming will now be on Linear with TNT.
