FOX Sports is close to letting another conference in on the party. How is that going to affect the Big East?
The news has hit the wire that the Big Ten Conference and FOX Sports are close to a new media rights deal that hands off the conference's media rights to FOX according to Sports Business Daily/Sports Business Journal. According to the deal, roughly 25 football games and 50 basketball games will be carried on big FOX and FS1 beginning in the year 2017 and could be worth as much as $250 million per year over the course of a six-year period.