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You're welcome, SEC brethren

Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:15 pm
Posted by Motengator
Central Texas
Member since Feb 2013
1357 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:15 pm
So, this hasn't been discussed, in the last couple of hours?

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Without Texas A&M leaving for the SEC, the SEC's own network wasn't lucrative enough to undertake. It was the eight million cable and satellite subscribers in Texas that made the SEC Network financially viable. Here's some simple math for you: Every major cable and satellite subscriber in Texas pays around $16.80 a year for the SEC Network. Every major cable and satellite subscriber in Texas -- except for those with Comcast, which doesn't carry it -- pays $3.48 for the Longhorn Network. So right now in Texas, the only state paying more than a quarter a year for the Longhorn Network, the SEC Network makes nearly five times as much every month. (Nationwide the SEC Network, on pace to do nearly $550 million in revenue this year, makes nearly 22 times as much money a month as the Longhorn Network.


Fox Sports
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 6:17 pm
Posted by TT9
Global warming
Member since Sep 2008
82952 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:16 pm to
dr:redarrow
Posted by theGarnetWay
Washington, D.C.
Member since Mar 2010
25914 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:21 pm to
So A&M funded its own competition?
Posted by hg
Member since Jun 2009
123863 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:21 pm to
/r/nobodygivesafrick
Posted by EKG
Houston, TX
Member since Jun 2010
44144 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:23 pm to
They're grateful ... even if they won't admit it.



Posted by tylerdurden24
Member since Sep 2009
46717 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:23 pm to
Thanks for inadvertently pumping so much money into the already fat UGA wallet that we started hiring staff and improving facilities to the point that we are quite likely on our way to wrecking some shite
Posted by NFLSU
Screwston, Texas
Member since Oct 2014
16708 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:24 pm to
Posted by auburnphan23
Member since Jan 2014
5862 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:34 pm to
Sorry but the only time I read anything Clay Travis writes is when he decides to make fun of bammers
Posted by logjamming
Member since Feb 2014
7866 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:36 pm to
quote:

Clay Travis



Posted by cardboardboxer
Member since Apr 2012
34357 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:41 pm to
Aggy board.


For real though this rocks. frick the haters. SEC SEC SEC
Posted by Prof
Member since Jun 2013
42751 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 6:42 pm to
Clay Travis.

His supposition that without TAMU and the LHN the SECN wouldn't be profitable or exist is based on his opinion. The LHN was hardly the blueprint or only example of either a team network or a conference network.

TAMU certainly helped expand the launch footprint as did Mizzou but the idea of an SEC Network had been around for years and the conference watched several others succeed and fail while waiting for our own tv contracts to expire. However, Clay is either unaware or doesn't acknowledge several simple facts. The network is successful because of the product which would have been there with or without expansion and goes beyond football (women's basketball, men's basketball, softball, and baseball among others are critical to the network's success and all things viewers want to see as well as successful conference sports). That said, the notion that viewers and cable companies wouldn't pay or contract to see more SEC games given conference primacy in football is absurd, especially given that the South watches more college football than anyone (we even watch the B1G more than B1G country does because we love college football).

IOW, thanks for the extra footprint in terms of help guaranteeing a good launch but never rest any argument or brag because Clay Travis said so.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 6:44 pm
Posted by cas4t
Member since Jan 2010
70982 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:02 pm to
Hey, that's why the SEC wanted y'all.
Posted by KCM0Tiger
Kansas City, MISSOURI
Member since Nov 2011
15593 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:02 pm to
So by adding A&M (8,000,000 x $16.80= 134,400,000) and Missouri (2,000,000 x $16.80= 33,600,000), the SEC Network makes an additional $168,000,000 per year.

Top money makers for the SEC Network:

Texas A&M: $134,400,000
Florida: $109,200,000
Georgia: $56,000,000
Missouri: $33,600,000
South Carolina: $27,048,000
LSU: $26,040,000

:Big 6:

Kentucky: $24,712,800
Tennessee: $18,202,800 (divided in half with Vanderbilt)
Vanderbilt: $18,202,800 (divided in half with Tennessee)
Arkansas: $16,632,000
Alabama: $13,582,800 (divided in half with Auburn)
Auburn: $13,582,800 (divided in half with Alabama)
Ole Miss: $8,374,800 (divided in half with State)
State: $8,374,800 (divided in half with Ole Miss)

East: $286,966,400
West: $220,987,200 (A&M owns 61% of that )
Total: $507,953,600

East riiiiiiiiiich. West poooooooor.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 7:51 pm
Posted by AdamDeMamp
$900.00
Member since Jul 2013
3276 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:18 pm to
The SEC was really struggling without A&M and Missouri. Now we're winning football title after title.


But seriously, from a financial standpoint, Missouri and A&M are welcomed additions.
Posted by Nguyening
SEMO
Member since Jun 2013
9057 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:31 pm to
Ughhhhh
Posted by KaiserSoze99
Member since Aug 2011
31669 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 7:56 pm to
Meh.


We could easily say that A&M and Mizzou would have had no place to deliver all those TVs without the strongest conference brand.


Thanks to the SEC for kicking arse before we got here.
This post was edited on 5/11/15 at 7:58 pm
Posted by GetmorewithLes
UK Basketball Fan
Member since Jan 2011
19163 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 8:28 pm to
quote:

It was the eight million cable and satellite subscribers in Texas that wanted to see somebody other than aTm and the Horns that made the SEC Network financially viable...FIFY
Posted by Pavoloco83
Acworth Ga. too many damn dawgs
Member since Nov 2013
15347 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 8:32 pm to
None of that means we like you.
Posted by TheSwineAssault
The Delta
Member since Apr 2010
1623 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 9:14 pm to
SWC posse....my brothers.
Posted by TexAgChill
Member since Mar 2015
2450 posts
Posted on 5/11/15 at 9:18 pm to
Deep down in places they don't talk about they're thanking us for financial relevancy.
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