Why Comcast is force behind Big 10 expansion

[bws258]

Bringing in Rutgers & Syracuse brings in huge TV markets and dollars from Comcast. Missouri gets the St Louis & Kansas City area. I think Nebraska is more for a historically strong FB team vs the population of Omaha.

No way is #16 Syracuse ... Maryland makes WAY more sense (Baltimore & DC) ... even more so if you are trying to tie it to Comcast

 

[JonDMiller]

This item does a good job of explaining the additional money the BTN will get from cable subscriptions by being in the Big Ten footprint vs not:

Big Ten?s behemoth - Sports | ColumbiaTribune.com

Or in these terms:

3.1 mil subscribers Cabelvision subscribers:
.10 cents = $310,000 per month to BTN, $3,720,000 per year
IF Rutgers added and BTN added to basic cable tier
.70 cents: $2,170,000 per month = $26,040,000 per year

 

[JonDMiller]

Missouri gets them close to $20,000,000 per year with the over 2 million TV households in that state

 

[GHawk]

Also remember you would add a championship game that would add a huge amount.

 

[nilekinnick]

I was 3 days ahead of this article, Dollars and Sense of Big Ten Expansion | Hawkeye Nation maybe a late career change to journalism :.)