Pac-12 Network will continue into 2025

This article has the some answers:  awfulannouncing.com/league-networks/pac-12-studio-operations-only.html


Perhaps the most substantive development came from Gould, who revealed that the Pac-12 Networks’ production studio in San Ramon, Calif., will remain active for the 2024-25 school year. Although the networks will cease to exist as a media distribution company, the studio will support Washington State and Oregon State “with live events and content,” Gould said. (No specifics were provided.)

And during this span, Oregon State and Washington State will likely need to produce their home football games. Where those will air is not clear yet. But if it’s somewhere other than ESPN or Fox, they’ll probably need to do their own production. And there are plenty of P12 Nets personnel with experience producing football games, and that should make for an easier sell to, say, streaming platforms that don’t already have production infrastructure.

It also seems reasonably smart to have the networks “cease to exist as a media distribution company” (presuming that that means ending the linear channels). Yes, there’s a world where they could have rolled on in some very limited way, perhaps with the combination of the Oregon (formerly Oregon State and Oregon) and Washington (formerly Washington State and Washington) regional feeds and the national feed as one channel. Texas made a one-school channel work for a decade, even if that’s soon going away. And this has double the potential content of that.

But the distribution and per-subscriber fee numbers here were already so bad even before this exodus that there seemingly wasn’t a lot to be gained there. And even the idea of a Pac-2 Network was drawing jokes Thursday (based on tweets about the network surviving, not just the studio):