Fox Sports Cuts BCS Rights Deal

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NEW YORK Fox Sports has won the rights to televise three of the four NCAA College Bowl Championship Series games—the Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl and Fiesta Bowl—for four years beginning in 2007.

Those games currently air on ABC, which earlier won its TV rights renewal to televise the Rose Bowl through 2014. The BCS comprises the six biggest college football conferences, as well as Notre Dame.

ABC, which reportedly locked up the rights to televise the Rose Bowl by paying an average of $30 million per year, or $240 million over the eight years of the new contract, reportedly bid $52.5



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