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[QUOTE="orangeinjersey, post: 4725090, member: 1961"]
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[URL unfurl="true"]https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/pac-12-final-offers-cbs-espn-fox-apple.html[/URL]

[I]Ourand reports that Fox’s final offer was for part of what the network considered the Pac-12’s “B” package of games, and would pay out between $35 million and $40 million per season. Fox only would have picked up 13 football games in their proposed deal. While $35 million-$40 million might not seem bad, keep in mind that’s not per school – it’s for the whole conference, meaning the per-school payout would have ended up at around $4 million before defections.

Ourand reports ESPN’s last offer to the conference was “a small bid.”

Neither Amazon nor NBC ever bid for Pac-12 rights. It was widely rumored and expected that Amazon would at least try to get a toe in the water, but they never did. The Pac-12 reportedly talked with NBC three times about a rights deal, [URL='https://awfulannouncing.com/college-football/pac-12-nbc-approaches-unsuccessful-savior.html']including this summer[/URL], but an offer was never made.

The delay from last year, when ESPN, Fox and CBS were willing to do a deal, to last week, when all three put forth small bids, was devastating to the Pac-12. A changing media landscape — with shrinking subscriber numbers and employee layoffs — caused the networks to be much more disciplined in where to spend their money than they have in the past.[/I]
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