What the new Big Ten TV deal means for Ohio State fans

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

On this Thursday Buckeye Talk, news changed the plan. The Big Ten announced its new TV deal Thursday morning, and Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird are here to react to it First up is that initial discussion with Doug and Nathan on what the deal means, from the start of the show until the 18:55 mark. Then Doug comes back to comment on what Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith had to say about the new deal. That goes from 18:55 to 29:03. And then Doug reveals the answers to a texter survey on the new deal and networks, which goes until the end of the show. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but I talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:26.0	Back to the Thursday fuck I talk it's not what we plan is to glamorous Nathan there the big 10 has a new TV deal
0:31.0	I have a Michigan opponent preview pod that we will get to in the next couple days
0:34.9	But we're going to deal with the big 10 and the new TV deal right now
0:38.2	I think there's two things Nathan we want to talk about as we talk here about 10 20 on Thursday morning
0:42.9	One is money one is what it means for fans watching games at home on TV
0:46.3	They're making a lot of money. Is that what we think here? Is that the vibe lots of money?
0:50.7	Yeah, we believe so this what what is characterized as breaking news this morning has mostly been bent
0:56.2	Obviously over the last couple of weeks and what we found out this morning keeps in line with what we've been hearing
1:02.2	$7 billion over $7 billion in this seven-year deal according to ESPN's adder and written burger got some access with Kevin Warren ahead of this announcement
1:10.8	It seems and that's going to mean depending on the year anywhere between 80 to 100 million for Ohio State and the other big 10
1:18.1	Members depending on which year how many people are in the league that year things like that and
1:24.4	Relative to what they've been making which was about 54 million a year. So you're talking about
1:29.9	Either like 50% more or almost double and again
1:34.9	What what I think this means in the end is they're
1:37.9	Stockpiling the nuts in their tree to pay players eventually because I'm there just that they're in they're in money gathering mode
1:45.6	We knew this was going to be big. This is big and it's interesting Nathan and we again a lot of this stuff
1:50.2	We knew we were it was coming and we got to get to the specifics of you people who are sitting listen to Buck
1:55.5	I talk you'd like to watch football on Saturday
1:58.0	What does this mean for your Saturday? We'll get to that in a second
2:01.0	But they split this up like the SEC has a new TV deal that starts with ESPN in 2024
2:07.6	And which is going to make for an interesting crossover in 2023 this new TV deal for the big 10 starts in 2023
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