Breakdown of D1 Men's Basketball on TV For 2016-17 By Conference

I've done this in prior seasons, skipped it last year and decided to bring it back for this year.  Here's a breakdown of men's basketball on TV by conference.  I broke the games down in the following categories:

• Broadcast network
• Pay TV
• Further breakdown by 80+ million, 60-80 million, 40-60 million & under 40 million subscribing homes using the February coverage estimates found at SportsTVRatings.com and data from WhatYouPayForSports.com for a few networks not rated by Nielsen.  Check both of those links if you want an idea where a pay TV network was classified
• Syndication & Regional Distribution
• Includes ASN, ACC Network, ACC RSNs, FSN, NBC RSNs, ROOT Sports

The TV rights are those contracted with the home school's conference, so BYU's home games on BYUtv are nowhere to be found here (add 13 to the 60-80 million column if you want to include them).  All counts include conference tournaments games that were televised.  

The reason syndication was set aside is that the number of viewers is often variable and I wasn't interested in calculating it on a game by game basis, hence it gets its own bucket.  The fact is the data in this column probably isn't as reliable as it could or should be because I am likely under reporting the number of games.   For example, the WCC count is solely their "Game Of The Week" when I could be adding in a lot of other games, but those other games could be contracted out by the schools with the telecasts regionally shared.  I just don't know enough in that area which is why I tried to stick to situations where a conference had entered into an agreement with an entity. An example of that would be the Big 12, who had about 16 institutionally held games distributed through FSN & several Texas games on Longhorn Network.

Anyways, here's the link.  Have fun.