Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131229:14:37:00
It is about the money. the money that espn is paying to televise the games. and when do the players get more? >> so this is the money we're talking about here, to try to put this on the -- $7.3 billion. this is what espn paid for a -- the rights to a playoff for 12 years, four-team playoff, through the 2025, 2026 season, that breaks down to they're paying $608 million a year for the rights to broadcast. what they had been paying under the current bcs formula was $495 million a year. so it increased in value $113 million by having more of these games mean something. i'm wondering if in a couple...
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