Espn has matched NBC’s offer to buy the Big East Conference’s television rights for about $20 million per year over a period of six years, according to media reports.
The Big East, a college athletic conference encompassing universities in the eastern half of the country, was working on a deal with NBC that would have put most of its football and men’s basketball games on NBC Sports Network.
According to Sports Business Journal and ESPN.com, the deal also gave NBC the right to sublicense games, allowing them to be aired by other networks.
ESPN had the right to match the deal by Thursday.
Sports Business Journal and ESPN.com, citing unidentified sources, reported that ESPN had matched but all of the details were still being worked out.
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