Hollywood's Multibillion-Dollar Sports Rights Boom

College Football Playoffs

ESPN inked a $7.3 billion deal for the sport’s postseason through 2026, upping its previous four-year, $495 million pact for the Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowls and securing the title game.

FIFA World Cup

Fox paid $450 million to $500 million for the rights to the 2018 and 2022 soccer tournaments, snatching them from ESPN -- which had paid just $100 million for the 2010 and 2014 events.

Major League Baseball

As of 2014, ESPN will pay $700 million a year for the rights to broadcast MLB games -- totaling $5.6 billion from 2014 through 2021 -- almost twice what it now shells out.

'Monday Night Football'

Initially paying an annual $1.1 billion to grab the TV tentpole from ABC in 2006, ESPN will drop $1.9 billion a season to air the games from 2014 through 2021 -- totaling $15.2 billion.

NASCAR

Nearly doubling the cost of the stock-car racing body’s previous deal with Fox, ESPN and Turner, NBCUniversal and Fox Sports will share NASCAR from 2015 to 2024 for a reported $8.2 billion.

NCAA Men's Basketball

To please all 68 teams in the bracket, the NCAA ditched CBS' exclusive rights in 2011, signing a $10.8 billion deal with the broadcast network and Turner to spread the games out through 2024.

NHL

NBC extended its hockey pact to spend $2 billion over 10 years, upping its previous revenue-sharing agreement and keeping the Stanley Cup on NBC and NBC Sports Network through 2021.

The Olympics

To hold on to the Olympic Games from 2014 through 2020, NBC will spend $4.38 billion — with the 2020 Summer Games costing $1.4 billion. (In 2000, the Sydney Games cost just $705 million.)

U.S. Open Golf

More than doubling the $40 million a year NBC and ESPN had been footing, Fox Sports 1 outbid the two networks for a 12-year deal -- starting in 2015 -- costing a reported $100 million per year.

U.S. Open Tennis

ESPN will dole out $825 million over 11 years to carry the tournament exclusively starting in 2015, dwarfing the annual $20 million CBS is paying the USTA near the end of 47 years airing the event.

Wimbledon

NBC was paying $13 million a year for the broadcast rights — until, in July 2011, ESPN upped it to $40 million a year, locking them down with a 12-year deal worth $480 million.