Three Thoughts on New Big 12 Basketball, Peacock Deal

Three Thoughts on New Big 12 Basketball, Peacock Deal

Big 12 men’s basketball has a new home — or rather, its new home has a new sub-home. On Tuesday, Sports Business Journal reported that Fox had sublicensed approximately 20 of its allocated men’s basketball games to Peacock, the streaming service for NBC. Last year at Big 12 media days, commissioner Brett Yormark estimated, when asked by Heartland College Sports, that Fox would get roughly 50 games from the Big 12 inventory in its first year of b…

Peacock gets Big 12 men's hoops in new sublicensing deal

The following article "Peacock gets Big 12 men’s hoops in new sublicensing deal" originally appeared on Sports Media Watch. Peacock continues to build its sports line-up with the addition of Big 12 men’s basketball games. NBC Sports announced Tuesday that it has reached a multi-year deal to carry 20 Big 12 men’s basketball games per year on its Peacock streaming service starting this fall. The games, which will include both intra-conference and…