Big Ten payouts will be largest in conference history
Big Ten Network primetime schedule announced
Being a member of the Big Ten Conference continues to have its benefits.
Among them, of course: loads and loads of cash.
According to a report by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, each Big Ten school will receive $25.7 million from the conference this year, the highest payout in the Big Ten’s 117-year history.
What’s more: $7.6 million will come straight from the Big Ten Network, the conference’s delve into a Big Ten-only cable television channel that launched in August 2007. The schools also received $10.9 million apiece from the conference’s television deals with ABC and ESPN, according to the Post-Dispatch report.
In 2012, the schools received a payout of $24.6 million, with $8.1 million coming from the Big Ten Network.
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