HUGE New TV Contracts

Still not on the level of the other major leagues, but an increase from $23m per year to $90m.

Announcement at noon.

Per Sports Business Daily:
ESPN:
34+ exclusive games at 4 p.m. (CDT) Sundays, mostly ESPN2.
Distribute league out-of-market packages
Will share playoffs with Fox, outside of 2 Univision games
Alternate with Fox the MLS Cup and All-Star Game
Will share USA games with Fox
Digital rights for all games it televises
Can televise SuperDraft and other MLS events
ESPN Radio and Deportes can air games

Fox:
34+ exclusive games at 6 p.m. (CDT) Sundays, mostly Fox Sports 1
Will share playoffs with ESPN, outside of 2 Univision games
Alternate with ESPN the MLS Cup and All-Star Game
Will share USA games with ESPN
Digital rights for all games it televises
Fox Sports Radio can air games

Univision:
34+ exclusive games at 6 or 10 p.m. (CDT) Fridays, mostly UniMas
2 Knockout Round games, exclusive
All-Star Game and MLS Cup
All USA Men's games + 4 USA women's games
SAP Option for all games to listen in ENGLISH!
Univision Deportes Network in May/June will have 5 or 7 consecutive double-headers surrounded by 2 hrs MLS ancillary programming
UDN weekly Sunday MLS wrap-up and condense Match of the Week
Digital rights for all games it televises

Glad en espanol games will be available in English too, great news.

Fox/ESPN combine for $75m, other $15m from Univision

That sounds amazing, I didn't like the idea of NBC losing rights to the MLS, but this looks very promising..the league is really getting bigger.

ESPN3 carrying over 200 games now too!
http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/artic...ghts-partnerships-espn-fox-univision-deportes

Watched the Presser yesterday. This is good... League will continue to grow. Their relationship with ESPN will grow even bigger in the next 5-10 years, IMO.

zack54attack said:

Watched the Presser yesterday. This is good... League will continue to grow. Their relationship with ESPN will grow even bigger in the next 5-10 years, IMO.

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And dem $$$ figures

This is what they needed. For whatever anyone thinks of their deal with NBC lately, it always needed to be ESPN for this sport to grow here. ESPN shows shit so often, that there was not a good reason why this couldn't have gotten done.

Great job, obviously not as big as other major sports. But it was never going to be. But, this does set them up in 8 years if they continue to grow at the pace they have, to have a mega deal signed.