University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1984
SPORTS
Page 13
New ruling won't put'Hawks back on TV
YPHIL ELLENBECKER associate Sports Editor
The KU football team won't be appearing on any live telecasts this fall. That's in accordance with its two-year National Collegiate Athletic Association probation, which prohibits the Jayhawks from appearing on live telecasts for one year.
The University of Kansas could have ignored those sanctions after the NCAA this summer declared a one-year moratorium on enforcing football television sanctions.
But rather than ignore the sanctions and risk facing the same sanctions and perhaps even stiffer penalties in 1985, KU officials announced that they have chosen to obey the terms of the probation. The
moratorium came after the Supreme Court ruled in July that individual universities have the right to negotiate their own television contracts
KU athletic director Monte Johnson said, "Knowing all our options and that we had agreed to abide by the sanctions given to us by the NCAA, we saw no advantage to having our games on television, especially because right after the 1984 season is over we'll be free to deal with anybody for television rights without risk of further sanction by the NCAA."
KU will have three of its games shown on a delayed basis on the Kansas State Network, which includes KSNT of Topea in this area. All of KU's games will be shown on a delayed basis on Sunflower Cablevision.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN California and the University of Wisconsin are the only schools on NCAA probation that decided to ignore the sanctions and negotiate a television contract. Officials from the four other universities on NCAA probation - Wichita State, Clemson, Southern Mississippi and Arizona - confirmed Monday that none of their games will be broadcast on television.
The NCAA will know for sure whether it can apply sanctions when U.S. District Judge Juan C. Burciaga of Albuquerque, N.M., hands down a final opinion on how much power the organization can have over college football telecasts.
Officials at the universities of Oklahoma and Georgia filed a lawsuit in September 1981 that
questioned the NCAA's power to negotiate football television contracts for its member schools. Bureciaga ruled two years ago in the universities' favor.
WHEN THE SUPREME COURT uphold that decision this summer, the NCAA's football television contracts with ABC, CBS and Turner Broadcasting, which each had two years remaining, were nullified. Member schools were freed to make their own television deals.
Three separate national television plans have emerged since then. The College Football Association, which includes all NCAA Division I football-playing schools with the exception of members of the Big Ten and Pacific 10 Conference, signed contracts with ABC and the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network. The Big Ten and Pac-It alliance signed contracts with CBS.
CONFERENCES AND INDIVIDUAL schools are free to make their own deals with regional networks or independent stations for games in the early afternoon time slot.
The Big Eight Conference has agreed to a proposal by Katz Sports of New York to televise games involving conference schools between Sept. 8 and Nov. 25, according to conference commissioner Carl James. A contract has not yet been signed.
James said a schedule of the games to be televised would be announced as soon as possible. ABC and ESPN would have first rights to teleserve games involving conference schools.
KMBC of Kansas City will show be showing the games in the Katz-Big Eight package in this area.
ABC will telecast 20 games involving CFA schools on 13 dates, beginning Sept. 8. CBS will telecast 14 Big 10 and Pac-10 games on 10 dates. Both networks will telecast their games in the 2:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. time slot on Saturdays.
THOSE TWO NETWORKS are paying significantly less for rights to televise games this year than they did last year under the NCAA contract.
ABC paid two teams $600,000 each for appearing in a national telecast last year, and $332,000 apiece for appearing in regional telecasts. CBS paid $880,000 to each team for national telecasts and $340,000 to each team for regional telecasts.
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