The Big 12 Conference has signed a deal to expand its rights
agreements with ESPN. The deal runs through 2024-25, when the rest of the league's TV rights contracts will expire.
As part of the new agreement, ESPN will broadcast every Big 12 football
championship game through the 2024 season and create a Big 12 platform
on ESPN+.
All of the championship games will appear on
either ABC or ESPN.
Eight of the 10 schools in the
league will ship hundreds of games across multiple sports to ESPN+
beginning this year, including one regular-season football game, and men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, soccer and
volleyball games.
Texas keeps its rights on the ESPN-owned
Longhorn Network. Oklahoma's rights will remain with Fox Sports. Both schools, however, will be featured on ESPN+ as
road teams.
The
ESPN+ agreement starts for Baylor, Kansas, Kansas State and Oklahoma
State this year. Iowa State, TCU, Texas Tech and West
Virginia join in 2020.
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