The Longhorn Network

[PhillyBuff]

See: Creepy, Racist statue garden.

This post is worthless w/o pictures....

 

[Buff_since76]

 

[Lt.Col.FrankSlade]

Those pictures are no good without the Major Applewhite jumping out of the bathroom stall fark/animated gif.

 

[GoBeers]

I think this information is incorrect. Texas gets paid, regardless of how profitable the LHN is. Texas agreed to a 15 year, $300 million contract with ESPN. Any loss in the distribution of the LHN is on ESPN, not Texas. Whether the LHN has 100,000,000 subscribers or 100 subscribers, I think Texas still gets their money.

From http://thebiglead.com/index.php/201...s-and-espn-revealed-big-12-future-not-bright/

Straight Cash: Texas receives $10,980,000 per year, with an annual increase of three percent. However, once ESPN recovers its initial $295 million investment, Texas receives 70 percent of the profit.

to lose if ESPN doesn't get their $295 mil, then afterwards, it still goes to UT as a 70% clip.

Doesn't it sound like ESPN was paying Texas off to keep the B12 up and running last year?

But consider, it's been reported that tOSU and Florida get ~$9 million for these same rights. They just don't have a network pushing it. ESPN did really cross the line with the HS football idea and the push to move their B12 games onto LHN. That's mostly on Beebe and the B12 admins for not having rules against it. ESPN is gonna try to make money - that's a fact.

There are 4.5 million cable households in Texas, so if ESPN could get its $.40 asking price for ALL of them, that's $21.6 million per year. Don't know that the network will cost to run, but it doesn't seem like there's much upside in it for ESPN. I guess they can sell ads, but if they say get $.25 per sub just to get the thing carried, they will never make much.

 

[Cal84]

Excellent find GoBeers.

+1 rep to you.

 

[CUBUFF80]

See: Creepy, Racist statue garden.

In fairness, the shaggybevo thread in response to those statues was some of the funniest **** I've ever read.