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Report: American Athletic Conference agrees to 12-year, $1 billion media rights deal with ESPN

Each AAC school, including Temple would earn an average of $6.94 million per year in the new deal, according to the report.

Temple running back Ryquell Armstead holds the football watching Navy defensive end Jarvis Polu.  YONG KIM/Staff Photographer
Temple running back Ryquell Armstead holds the football watching Navy defensive end Jarvis Polu. YONG KIM/Staff PhotographerRead morePhiladelphia Inquirer

DAYTON, Ohio --The Sports Business Journal has reported that the American Athletic Conference has agreed to a 12-year, $1 billion media rights deal with ESPN.

When contacted by The Inquirer, officials from both the AAC and Temple, which is a member of the conference, declined comment.

The AAC’s current deal extends through the 2019-2020 season and the new one would take place in 2020-21.

According to the report, the annual per-school average will be $6.94 million that each AAC school would receive, about $5 million more than the current deal.

The new deal, according to the report, gives ESPN rights to all of the AAC’s live programming, except for a small package of basketball games on CBS and some Navy football games on CBS Sports Network

The article stated that “the majority of basketball games and about half of the football games will go to ESPN+”, which is an online subscription service.