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.
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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.
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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.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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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.