These landmark media rights agreements are the most comprehensive in all of college sports and further strengthen the tradition of the Big Ten Conference.īig Ten Conference football will dominate Saturdays, beginning in the fall of 2023 on the largest broadcast platforms from morning to night, with FOX at Noon ET, CBS at 3:30 p.m. The breadth of new partners, in addition to Big Ten Network (BTN) and FS1, will place conference football, women’s and men’s basketball and Olympic sports student-athletes on the biggest stage and provide fans with the most exciting matchups across traditional over-the-air linear television and direct-to-consumer streaming. The Big Ten Conference announced today that it has reached distribution agreements with CBS, FOX, NBC and NBCUniversal’s Peacock. BTN is expected to broadcast a minimum of 126 men’s basketball games. There will reportedly be 11 regular-season Big Ten basketball games on CBS, 32 regular-season games (20 conference) on Peacock (rising to 47 with 32 conference games in 2023-24) and 45 regular-season basketball games on Fox/FS1. The deal means that Big Ten basketball is leaving ESPN and will be featured across CBS, FOX, NBC and Peacock.
The Big Ten made things official today when it announced a historic media rights deal worth reportedly more than $7 billion.