TNT picks up College Football Playoff Rights from ESPN

[jkrdevil]

2 first round games for the first two years, plus 2 quarterfinal (bowl) games the final 3 years of the deal.

My guess if TNT gets the 1st round games up against the NFL. Then when they get 2 of the New Year’s 6 games they get the NYE game and the Noon NYD Bowl game (ESPN keeps Rose and Sugar Bowl).

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[Big Z Man 1990]

In a future contract with a 14-team playoff this is how the CFP should be divided:

First round: 1 game each on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, The CW and ESPN

Quarterfinals: 1 game each on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC

Last two rounds: Alternate between ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

2 first round games for the first two years, plus 2 quarterfinal (bowl) games the final 3 years of the deal.

My guess if TNT gets the 1st round games up against the NFL. Then when they get 2 of the New Year’s 6 games they get the NYE game and the Noon NYD Bowl game (ESPN keeps Rose and Sugar Bowl).

Pretty good get for Turner now the Winter Classic dates should be intresting going foward.

 

[jkrdevil]

Pretty good get for Turner now the Winter Classic dates should be intresting going foward.

My guess it stays on NYE. It’s already been moved to where it is a lead in to the night NYE CFP playoff. Winter Classic followed by CFP playoff game is a good day of programming for Turner.

 

[Takuto Maruki]

...yeah, this deal sounds good until you realize you're still ultimately getting the mouse's scraps in an entity they created whole cloth, and it doesn't at all mitigate the absolute terrible job Zaslav has done especially with Turner Sports, but across the entire WBD portfolio.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

He could very well lose his job by losing the NBA

 

[Takuto Maruki]

He could very well lose his job by losing the NBA

Lets be real, it'll be for a legion of other major decisions, but losing a nearly 30 year broadcasting relationship with the NBA is going to be the one that's felt the largest, and have the biggest amount of damage to both the brand, the company, and the people in the boardroom's reputation considering how they acted about the NBA in general.

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Disney propping up TNT Sports for Venu, now that they're losing the NBA.

Reeks of collusion.

Hadn't considered the future Winter Classic lead-in, that's pretty great for the NHL.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

Lets be real, it'll be for a legion of other major decisions, but losing a nearly 30 year broadcasting relationship with the NBA is going to be the one that's felt the largest, and have the biggest amount of damage to both the brand, the company, and the people in the boardroom's reputation considering how they acted about the NBA in general.

The NBA is clearly not helping TNT for this negotiation

 

[GKJ]

Good deal. I like it.

He could very well lose his job by losing the NBA

He’s going to. Seems to be under the impression he can match any deal legally but that’s never how it works

 

[Spydey629]

Disney propping up TNT Sports for Venu, now that they're losing the NBA.

Reeks of collusion.

Hadn't considered the future Winter Classic lead-in, that's pretty great for the NHL.

Didn't even consider the Venu aspect, but it's not really collusion unless they had another offer from a separate entity (Comcast or Paramount) that offered more and they still took the lower package.

 

[GKJ]

 

[PCSPounder]

In a future contract with a 14-team playoff this is how the CFP should be divided:

First round: 1 game each on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, The CW and ESPN

Quarterfinals: 1 game each on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC

Last two rounds: Alternate between ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC

Or… college athletics dies a loud, grisly death and is buried in the same plot as the rotted corpse of Avery Brundage.

 

[joelef]

Or… college athletics dies a loud, grisly death and is buried in the same plot as the rotted corpse of Avery Brundage.

Avert brundage was an elitist a- hole

 

[PCSPounder]

Avert brundage was an elitist a- hole

Racist elitist… and the next adjective that deserves to be posted might get me thrown off the board. It’s like I like you guys or something.

 

[Kirk Van Houten]

WBD reportedly set to add more college hoops with Big East deal

WBD now is going for Big East basketball so not getting back the NBA might not be that bad in the long run who knows honestly