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  1. MrNuke

    Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

    I think you'd need to decide if you are trying to annoy ESPN or trying to do what is best (profitable) for your existing schools. The NY-NJ-CT-PA metro statistical area includes about 22.2 million people. Using the national average of 2.6 persons per household, that is about 8.5 million...
  2. MrNuke

    Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

    Rights fees in the context of the BTN actually means something different than the ~$1 carriage or subscriber in market monthly fee. The conference makes money in 3 ways from the Big Ten Network. It obviously owns 51% of the joint venture with Fox. So 1) Ultimately they will get 51% of the...
  3. MrNuke

    Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

    At some level, and especially when we are talking about some of those schools back East the issue is related though. If you are Rutgers, a 40 mile drive from Times Square, and a New York metro area of 19 million people and you can't fill your 52,000 seat stadium on a consistent basis... I...
  4. MrNuke

    Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

    We have radio affiliates in Seattle, Denver, Kansas City, and Las Vegas. Pretty amazing for a state of 1.8 million.
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