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[QUOTE="mscanlo, post: 295493, member: 830"]
ESPN is Disney's most profitable arm. NBC (and CBS) is trying to chip away at the profit but it can only be done slowly due to long-term contracts. NBC isn't going to get the $4+ carriage rates like ESPN right away, but they need a platform (the Big East) to get started and slowly work their way up. I don't knowledge on whether NBC thinks their is room to grow the sports media industry, or if they are trying to steal share away from ESPN (i would assume more of the former since sports continue to globalize ie. soccer, american sports being shown overseas, etc).
 
i also think there is a lot of bias towards ESPN, and thinking NBC Sports can never be ESPN. What exactly does ESPN make on their own that is so valuable and that you can't miss watching? PTI? SportsCenter? ESPN doesn't make the sporting events, they just distribute them. Granted there are a lot more subscribers of ESPN than NBCSports, but if the number of subscribers was the same, and, hypothetically NBC and ESPN both had rights to the SEC, why can't NBC get as much ad revenue and carriage fees as ESPN? Why is the Big East worth less to NBC than it is to ESPN (assuming they have the same number of subscribers)?
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