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[QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 1104815, member: 652"]
Even if they don't get the Clay Travis numbers and I never believe a word that guy says they will still get more money than the Big Ten and that is because ESPN/Disney was able to bundle SECN into 89 million cable/satellite homes right off the bat and BTN had to work its News Corp/FOX connections to get started off.

The 50/50 split has been stated numerous times. ESPN will receive 50% of the profits after production costs and the SEC will divide up the other 50%. The SEC did this instead of asking ESPN for partial ownership of the network. This deal keeps the SEC tied at the hip with ESPN while the BTN is owned 51% by the 14 Big Ten schools and office. Nebraska, Rutgers, Maryland have to receive less than full shares until they pay their fellow B1G partners the amount of money it takes to pay their portion of ownership in BTN. Thus, in the future while News Corp owns 49% of the BTN the B1G conferences isn't tied at the hop like SEC is with ESPN and the SECN. If the B1G tried to screw FOX all News Corp would do is stop helping with the bundling BTN with its others stations, but I doubt this would ever happen.
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