(05-15-2017 10:26 AM)Attackcoog Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 09:13 AM)orangefan Wrote:  

(05-15-2017 08:36 AM)GoldenWarrior11 Wrote:  Interesting graphic from the article.

This is based on two years' worth of data. If it had been three or four, Florida State would have done much better. They were a TV gold mine during the 2013 and 2014 seasons.

Based on those numbers you'd expect the ACC Network to generate only slightly more money than the Pac12 Network. I would have expected the ACC to have a substantially better ratings performance than the Pac12 due to its far more populated footprint--but that chart surprisingly says there isn't much difference.

Conference networks earn revenue from two sources: carriage fees and advertising. The carriage fees are negotiated in multiple year deals, but the ads are sold on shorter intervals, seasonal and week-by-week. The challenge for the ACC is that they share a big portion of their footprint with either the SEC or the B1G. Advertisiers can choose from those, and the ACC will struggle to keep up with their neighbors.