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$730,000 as the rights fee for the Division I-AA playoffs; $670,000 as the rights fee for the Division II and III playoffs, respectively ; $165,000 as the rights fee for regular-season telecasts of Division II and Division III games; and $250,000 as the rights fee for televising ‹ve NCAA championship events in sports other than football and basketball. The remainder, after these distributions, was $27,165,000, of which the NCAA’s share was 8 percent, or $2,173,000. Deducting the NCAA’s share left $24,991,800 to be divided among the Division I teams that appeared on ABC in 1978. ABC televised 13 games between these teams nationally and 45 games between them regionally and paid the participants a total of $533,600 (or $266,800 each) for a nationally televised game and $401,222 (or $200,611 each) for a regionally televised game. No team could appear on television more than ‹ve times in two seasons. Turning his attention to the 1982–85 contract, Judge Burciaga noted that the basic features of the previous agreement would remain in force in the new contract. Although the new contract appeared to provide for competition between ABC and CBS for the right to televise any particular game, the “ground rules”developed by the NCAA for administering the contract eliminated any possibility of competitive bidding between the networks.87 The best evidence of this was that one network would have exclusive rights to televise any particular game. Beyond that, each network was required to televise a game on at least 14 different dates and to show at least 35 games per season. Each network also had to televise at least seven games nationally and six games regionally per season, and at least one network was required to televise a game on each Saturday during the season. No team could appear on television more than six times in two years or more than four times nationally in two years, and at least 82 teams had to appear on each network during that time period. Furthermore, a team’s television appearances during those two years had to be divided equally between ABC and CBS. After identifying the ground rules of the 1982–85 contract, Judge Burciaga took pains to explain their practical effects. Before the college football season began, the networks would submit to the NCAA Television Committee their preferences for at least three “special dates” per network.88 If both networks chose the same date, a coin ›ip would determine which network got its ‹rst choice of special dates. The winner would choose a special 40 the supreme court and the ncaa date, then the other network would choose one, and they would alternate choosing dates until each network had all the “special dates” it wanted. These dates included (1) the ‹rst Saturday of the college football season, (2) the Friday and the Saturday after Thanksgiving, (3) Labor Day, (4) Veterans Day, (5) the ‹rst Saturday in December, (6) Monday through Thursday nights, and (7) any Saturday night approved by the Television Committee. After choosing their special dates, the networks would select the games they wished to televise on these dates and the time of each telecast. Both networks could show a game on the same special date, but the rules of the contract made it unlikely that more than one game would air simultaneously. Once the special dates were set, the networks would engage in a socalled equity draft, whereby each network would be permitted to select at least two “equity games”to televise during the season.89 The purpose of the equity draft was to enable the networks to televise an equal number of comparably popular and lucrative games.90 The network that had second choice in the earlier selection of special dates chose ‹rst in the equity draft. ABC and CBS alternated in choosing equity games until they had chosen the allotted number of games.91 Just as with the special dates, the rules covering the equity games made it unlikely that both networks would show equity games simultaneously. Following the equity draft, the networks would alternate in picking dates over which they would have a “right of control,”that is, the ‹rst right to choose any particular game. For example, if CBS chose Saturday , October 30, it would have its pick of all the games to be played that day. Judge Burciaga noted that if a particularly attractive game were scheduled for...

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