“I do think that there is a deal to be made where Apple TV+ takes over all the inventory as they did with Major League Soccer and as part of the deal there is a football package for maybe eight games over the air for an East coast primetime slot going to Scripps Sports ION TV because both companies want to be in the college football business,” said Gus Davidson a Los Angeles based programming consultant. Who stands to get Kliavkoff and his 10 members to accept their best and final offer? The problem there is we are missing the over-the-air component offered by ION as a total coverage deal. ESPN could keep the Pac-12 After Dark package. The Amazon/ESPN solution would require Amazon to follow the lead of Apple and take all the conference content and use the Pac-12 Network as a production hub. There are no remote trucks needed, just camera people and the announcers can be on-site or do the play-by-play from the broadcast center saving Apple thousands of dollars in production costs. Well, what started back in 2019 has now come full circle as a much stronger Apple TV+ has come calling for an all-streaming deal that would likely include the nearly 800 events scheduled for the 2024 season.Īpple would likely also take over the operation of the Pac-12 Network which because of its state-of-the-art production center allows for events to be streamed remotely from every conference campus and to one of the broadcast center’s five control rooms. He also recognized that if Apple ever secured rights to all the conference’s best programming, it would need to show some of those games on traditional, broadcast TV to satisfy fans.”Įven in 2019 Cue and Cook wanted all the Pac-12 content for their brand-new streaming service. Cue has questioned the value of a deal with the Pac-12 because it would only give Apple rights to some games, people familiar with his thinking said. ![]() Apple would likely also take over the operation of the Pac-12 Network which because of its state-of-the-art production center allows for events to be streamed remotely from every conference campus and to one of the broadcast center’s five control rooms. As UCLA and USC head to the Big Ten, the remaining Pac-12 universities have not yet found a media deal to replace the one that sunsets at the end of the 2024 season.Īpple CEO Tim Cook walks on the field and waives at fans after a game between the Denver Broncos and the Oakland Raiders at Sports Authority Field at Mile High on Decemin Denver, Colorado. CHESTNOT/GETTY IMAGESĪt present, the Pac-12 Media rights saga is nearing the point where the commissioner It is beginning to look as if the Pac-12 conference is very close to a new media with multiple players at monetary numbers good enough to keep all remaining members together for at least between 5 and 7 years. Apple TV+ is producing all the regular and postseason MLS broadcasts streaming them to their over 45 million subscribers, meanwhile, 15 of the over 450 games they stream will air on Fox. The Apple TV Plus logo is displayed on a television screen on September 11, 2019, in Paris, France in this file photo. The combination of the streamer and the over-the-air, cable network solves most of the conference presidents’ issues. WASHINGTON - After a very successful launch of the MLS Season Ticket, this weekend it is beginning to look like the in a perfect world the best combination for the Pac-12 media rights would be AppleTV+ and Scripps Sports ION-TV.
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