I saw another report though, that announced a deal with the SEC Network and Longhorn Network (at the same time) but this was somewhere in Texas. It's kind of lousy, but ESPN might be using the SEC to push their bad investment in the Longhorn Network.
On the flip-side, The Pac-12 is owned entirely by the conference, and the BTN is a split with Fox. ESPN has plenty of incentive to try to limit the reach of both of those networks. This is where the addition of Texas A&M and Missouri really comes into play. Those were the two biggest Big-12 states. So, adding states with combined populations of over 30 million certainly helps a lot when it comes to leverage for a network.
By the way, did anyone know that the MWC was the first to have their own network? I sure didn't...