>
> You say, "Wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong."   What did the three major
> networks and ESPN pay the NCAA, the major conferences and individual schools
> in 1986 and in 1996?  What is your source?  The data by network would be
> interesting...please provide it if you have it.  You also claim that, "Some
> of these self-production efforts actually lose money." I don't recall seeing
> any major conferences doing their own productions.
 
Ever hear of Big 12 Productions -- or Big East Productions -- or the Cornell
Sports Network -- etc..., etc...
 
> Which major conferences
> are doing self-productions and which of these conferences are losing money?
> How much?  Being a skeptic, it is hard for me to believe that the networks
> would allow a conference to do network programing.
 
Not the networks, but all of the other games -- the ones on Sportschannel, or
ESPN2.
 
If you're a skeptic, how come you believe the schools' financial data?
 
AW
 
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