1. New Sun Belt studios launched. This will provide a central location to talk Sun Belt sports during every sport championship tournament, big game halftime commentary with a more cohesive branding.

2. An expanded ESPN media deal. 50% increase in TV games with almost half of those on Saturdays.

3. SBC 365. The new Sun Belt platform to watch condensed games, highlights, interviews, and more. This is what I’m most excited about. A weekly SBC show is planned and is just more exposure for our teams that would be shot at the new Sun Belt Conference studio

4. The conference launched @SunBeltFB on twitter to be the main source for the seasons news, highlights, and stats. Media will love this outlet for quick access to tidbits to talk about on podcast/streams/tv/radio stuffs.

more tbd

Excellent, excellent stuff. SBC is becoming big time.

In the words of Pvt. Gomer Pyle USMC: "Surprise! Surprise!"

So based on this thread: https://csnbbs.com/thread-925438.html about Sun Belt branded room keys at the media day. That 26 million viewers had me interested so I did a little digging.

We had 56 Sun Belt controlled ESPN games plus 5 Bowl games in 2020 according to FootballScoop.com. 37 linear games (including bowl games) and 24 streaming games.

Out of those 37 linear games 24 of them gained enough ratings to be recorded and advertised by ESPN. Those 24 games had 17,403,000 viewers according to SportsMeadiaWatch.com averaging 725,125 viewers on linear channels.

That leaves 24 streaming games and 13 non-rated linear games that covers 8,597,000 viewers. That comes to an average of 232,351 viewers per non-rated/streaming games.


That's impressive.