The Champaign Room · Aug 18, 2022
The Big Ten’s new media rights agreement changes everything
Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty ImagesThe way we consume Fighting Illini — and Big Ten — football & basketball is about to change in a major, major way.
Word broke last week that ESPN would not be renewing its broadcast rights deal with the Big Ten once the current agreement expired at the end of this season, thus ending its 40-year partnership with the conference.
CBS, Fox, and NBC had reportedly come to terms with the Big Ten on a new media rights agreement, and now we know the particulars:
The #B1G has reached distribution agreements with CBS, FOX, NBC and NBCUniversal's Peacock.