The possibility of a new college football RedZone channel being launched has hit a hurdle, according to a report from Front Office Sports.
Fox is unlikely to license its college football programming, select Big Ten and Big 12 games, to ESPN to make a comprehensive College Football RedZone channel unless it is lumped into a sizable ownership portion of the channel, per FOS.
Shortly after the NFL acquired a 10 percent equity stake in ESPN earlier this month, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell openly discussed the possibility of expanding the NFL RedZone programming to introduce a college football RedZone channel.
Much like the NFL’s version but on a larger scale, a college football version would bounce between each game to find the most important moments, plays and storylines across the 10+ c