Pac-12 media rights: Kliavkoff expects critical process to stretch into 2023
Resolution of the critical process, which began over the summer, won’t come before the New Year.
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He added that the 10 schools “remain committed to each other.”
The conference is negotiating with its current partners, Fox and ESPN, and with a group of newcomers to the college football media space, including Amazon.
Because rights to the Big Ten and Big 12 have been locked up into the 2030s, the Pac-12 stands as the only Power Five conference with football inventory available on the market through the remainder of the decade.
Once a media deal is reached, Kliavkoff said, he will take the proposal to the university presidents and ask them to sign a grant-of-rights agreement binding their media revenue to the conference.
“I don’t anticipate any issues,” he said.
Only then would the conference explore expansion options.
All in all, the future shape and structure of the Pac-12 could take several more months to resolve.
