The Pac-12 struck a media-rights cope with CBS on Monday that units up the community to broadcast a minimal of 4 soccer and males’s basketball video games per season on its essential community and supply a cable and streaming presence for the reconfigured league from 2026-31.
Monetary particulars of the brand new deal weren’t disclosed. Convention Commissioner Teresa Gould referred to as it a “transformational partnership” that enables the Pac-12 to develop when it begins as a transformed league in 2026-27.
An lack of ability to safe a media deal is what practically cratered the league in 2023, with all however Oregon State and Washington State departing for the Huge 12, Atlantic Coast and Huge Ten Conferences.
The Pac-12 already had offers in place to place the entire two remaining groups’ soccer video games on the CW, ESPN and CBS for the upcoming season.
The brand new cope with what the league calls its “major long-term media companion” kicks within the subsequent season, when Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State, Utah State and San Diego State will be a part of the Pac-12 in all sports activities, with Gonzaga becoming a member of in the whole lot however soccer.
The Pac-12 wants so as to add one other soccer program to achieve the minimal eight groups essential to be within the Soccer Bowl Subdivision and, thus, the Faculty Soccer Playoff. A number of studies say Texas State has emerged as the highest candidate.
Beneath the brand new deal, CBS will broadcast not less than three regular-season soccer and males’s basketball video games per season, together with the championship video games for each sports activities. The league additionally could have what it referred to as a “constant regular-season presence” on the cable CBS Sports activities Community.
Particulars are nonetheless being finalized as Pac-12 media negotiator, Octagon, works on discovering extra media companions for the league.
