BaltoBull Posted August 14, 2012 Group: Member Topic Count: 35 Content Count: 490 Reputation: 13 Days Won: 1 Joined: 07/19/2006 Share Posted August 14, 2012 A wonder if true, if bringing in the CBS Sports vice-president will help the NBE. Hasn't CBS Sports been dinging us and our potential TV contract as of late? http://ajerseyguy.com/?p=550 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skingraft Posted August 14, 2012 Group: Member Topic Count: 743 Content Count: 13,357 Reputation: 2,482 Days Won: 63 Joined: 12/11/2006 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Great hire.... This, beyond a shadow of a doubt, show you that rivalries, history, legacy does not mean SHIIIIIIITTTTTTTTTTTT......... It is about TV contracts, broadcast rights, and revenue.... That being said, he better help get us paid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm101 Posted August 14, 2012 Group: TBP Subscriber Topic Count: 173 Content Count: 6,999 Reputation: 2,259 Days Won: 12 Joined: 06/11/2010 Share Posted August 14, 2012 (edited) Anyone have any info or analysis on this choice? Who is he and what can he do for us? EDIT: Got his bio Edited August 14, 2012 by hm101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAM37 Posted August 14, 2012 Group: Member Topic Count: 130 Content Count: 1,867 Reputation: 218 Days Won: 2 Joined: 08/07/2003 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Looks like a good hire (from the little info I've seen). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vroomy Posted August 14, 2012 Group: Member Topic Count: 7 Content Count: 182 Reputation: 20 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/04/2010 Share Posted August 14, 2012 (edited) The bio says his son formerly worked at versus (now known as NBC Sports Network). It's probably nothing, but him knowing the right people and already being a big shot in the television industry definitely couldn't hurt. I'll reserve judgement until I hear more about him, but between this and the consultants they brought in, I'm feeling cautiously optimistic. Edited August 14, 2012 by Vroomy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slbpsi63 Posted August 14, 2012 Group: Member Topic Count: 12 Content Count: 511 Reputation: 20 Days Won: 1 Joined: 12/19/2006 Share Posted August 14, 2012 This guy has connections in every major conference. He can use the business partnerships he has formed over the past 30 years to help improve our image. I like this hire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Posted August 14, 2012 Group: Member Topic Count: 197 Content Count: 10,251 Reputation: 270 Days Won: 14 Joined: 08/16/2005 Share Posted August 14, 2012 While I think he could help with the TV deal, I am looking more towards what he can do in making sure we stay relevant in the new postseason that starts come 2014. This guy seems to be a good hire when it comes to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hm101 Posted August 14, 2012 Group: TBP Subscriber Topic Count: 173 Content Count: 6,999 Reputation: 2,259 Days Won: 12 Joined: 06/11/2010 Share Posted August 14, 2012 Responsible for all college programming on CBS, essentially. That is huge in terms of what we need now. I just hope in the long run he can manage the athletic aspect well (raise level of competition, keep us relevant) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I Bleed Awesomeness Posted August 14, 2012 Group: Member Topic Count: 64 Content Count: 856 Reputation: 58 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/10/2006 Share Posted August 14, 2012 love the hire....even though hes a uconn huskie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mama_Bull Posted August 14, 2012 Group: Member Topic Count: 1,207 Content Count: 18,470 Reputation: 899 Days Won: 44 Joined: 10/14/2003 Share Posted August 14, 2012 New Big East Commish MICHAEL L. ARESCO (Executive Vice President, Programming) CBS Sports Michael L. Aresco was named Executive Vice President, Programming in June 2008 after having been Senior Vice President, Programming, since 2000. In his new expanded role, Aresco is responsible for all college programming for both CBS Sports and CBS College Sports Network. He also continues to help shape the strategy for growing CBS College Sports Network. Aresco joined CBS Sports as Vice President, Programming, in August 1996 and was promoted to Senior Vice President in 2000. He is responsible for managing the division's college sports properties, including contract negotiations and future acquisitions for the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, regular season college basketball and football, and bowl games. He is also responsible for administering the Network's various NCAA properties including internet, marketing, radio, licensing, publishing and outdoor programming. Aresco was instrumental in the CBS Television Network's landmark agreement with the NCAA granting CBS exclusive rights to the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship through 2013. He also played a key role in negotiating the marketing agreement that coincided with the NCAA deal, and in the evolution and development of various new media platforms for the NCAA Tournament, including March Madness on Demand (MMOD), CBS's highly successful Tournament streaming platform, and Video on Demand (VOD) applications. Aresco has also negotiated several agreements with DirecTV to show NCAA Tournament games on an out-of-market basis. He has played an active role in coordinating CBS content with CBS College Sports Network's various video streaming packages, and also authored a high school sports initiative that led to CBS's purchase of MaxPreps, the leading website devoted to high school sports. In addition, Aresco recently negotiated the Network's historic 15-year Southeastern Conference agreement to televise SEC football and basketball. This agreement also provides multiple new media rights for CBS, CBS College Sports Network and CBS Interactive. He has reached several agreements with the Big Ten Conference for college basketball as well as Big Ten product for CBS College Sports Network. Aresco also reached a multi-year agreement that expanded CBS Sports' Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) basketball coverage and has negotiated several basketball deals with the Big East, Pac 10 (through Fox Sports Network) and the Big 12 (through ESPN Regional). He also reached multi-year agreements granting CBS exclusive rights to televise the Army-Navy and Notre Dame-Navy football games, as well as the Sun and Gator Bowls. He recently negotiated a 10-year extension to CBS's Army-Navy football game agreement and was instrumental in the Academies' decision to move the game a week later where it will be the concluding game of the college football regular season. He also recently negotiated an extension of CBS's Notre Dame-Navy football game agreement through 2016 with an option through 2018 and assisted in negotiating the CBS College Sports Network-Navy football agreement through 2018. In 2005, CBS acquired CSTV, an independent cable sports network. In January 2008, CBS Sports began to integrate CSTV's operations with its own and, in March 2008, CSTV became the CBS College Sports Network. Aresco oversees the CBS College Sports Network's programming department, spearheading program planning and development, as well as working with conference rights holders on contract negotiations and future acquisitions. He sits on the Board of the mtn., the Denver-based regional sports network devoted to the Mountain West Conference and jointly owned by CBS and Comcast. In 2004, he was appointed by NCAA President Myles Brand to the Basketball Partnership, a select panel whose mission is to explore ways to improve and promote college basketball. Other members include Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany and former Big East Commissioner Dave Gavitt. He has been a guest lecturer at the Tisch Center for Sports Management at NYU and a guest speaker at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the University of Tennessee School Of Business. He has appeared regularly on panels at the Sports Business Journal Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, and has been a panelist at Practicing Law Institute and National Sports Marketing Network seminars. He has addressed the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletic Administrators. Aresco has been a frequent delegate to the Spruce Meadows Changing Fortunes Round Table, an annual gathering of prominent worldwide business leaders in Calgary, Canada. He is a charter member of the Steering Committee of the Columbia University / New York City Chapter of the National Football Foundation. Aresco joined CBS Sports from ESPN where he was responsible for overseeing the acquisition, scheduling and development of long-term strategies for all of ESPN and ESPN2's college sports properties. Aresco also was responsible for programming a wide variety of sports properties, including college football, ATP and Davis Cup tennis, boxing, the Racing Across America Series, rodeo and yachting. He was the architect of ESPN's Thursday night college football series and was instrumental in developing "Bowl Week." He joined ESPN in 1984 and was named Assistant General Counsel in 1988 before moving to the ESPN programming department. Aresco is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Tufts College (B.A., magna cum laude, history); the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts (M.A., international relations), where he held a John Moors Cabot Fellowship, and the University of Connecticut Law School (J.D.). He served as a foreign relations staff intern in the office of former U.S. Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan. In 2003, he was the recipient of the All-American Football Foundation's Outstanding Television Sports Executive Award. In 2007, he was honored as the Middlesex (CT) County Chamber of Commerce Role Model of the Year with an accompanying citation from the Connecticut General Assembly. He was born in Middletown, CT and lives in Greenwich, CT with his wife, Sharon and their son, Brett. Another son, Matthew, formerly a producer for the Versus Cable Television Network, recently established his own independent production company. http://www.cbssports.com/cbssports/team/maresco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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