NCAA, ESPN extend broadcast offer 8 more years

The NCAA and ESPN revealed Thursday that 40 NCAA champions, consisting of ladies’s basketball, volley ball, baseball and softball, will be on ESPN networks for the next 8 years.The arrangement consists of rights to 21 females’s champions and 19 males’s. Division I females’s basketball, women’s volleyball, females’s gymnastics and the Football Champion Subdivision title game will all be on network television(ABC). More than 800 hours of NCAA championships will appear on ESPN direct networks throughout the year, with more than 2,300 combined on direct and digital platforms.It extends a relationship in between the NCAA and ESPN that, like ESPN,

started in 1979. ESPN began televising every game of the NCAA ladies’s basketball tournament in 2003 and has brought events such as the guys’s College World Series considering that 1980.” ESPN and the NCAA have taken pleasure in a strong and collaborative relationship for more than four decades, and we are thrilled that it will continue as part of this brand-new, long-term arrangement,” stated ESPN chairman Jimmy Pitaro.The arrangement includes all 24 sports covered in ESPN’s previous agreement and adds coverage of the NCAA Department I

tennis champions(men’s and ladies’s) and males’s gymnastics, to name a few. It likewise extends international rights to the Department I guys’s basketball championship.The NCAA worked with Endeavor’s IMG and WME Sports as a media consultant for the negotiations, which were the first considering that ESPN and the NCAA accepted a 12-year,

$500 million deal in 2011. NCAA president Charlie Baker informed the Sports Business Journal that the brand-new offer is worth$ 115 million every year; an NCAA spokesperson informed SBJ that 25 %of that cost includes production and marketing.”Over the previous a number of years, ESPN has shown increased investment in NCAA champions protection, and the Association is pleased to continue to supply a platform for student-athletes to

shine,”Baker said.”Having one, multi-platform home to showcase our championships provides extra development potential along with a greater experience for the audience and our student-athletes.”Men’s championships included in the arrangement include soccer, football(non-Football Bowl Subdivision), cross country, water polo, indoor and outdoor track and field, swimming and diving, wrestling, ice hockey, gymnastics, fencing, volley ball

, lacrosse, tennis, baseball and Department II and III basketball (other than the Division II title game ). Women’s champions consisted of are soccer, field hockey, all departments of volleyball, cross nation, indoor and outdoor track and field, swimming and diving, all departments of basketball, ice hockey, bowling, gymnastics, fencing, beach volley ball, lacrosse, tennis, softball and water polo.The National Invitation Tournament for guys’s basketball and the brand-new Women’s Basketball Invitation Competition are likewise included.The deal begins in September.