FYI

Andrew Carter ‏@_andrewcarter 1h1 hour ago

Just heard applause in the ACC TV meeting. Probably means that league has signed that billion-dollar rights deal. Unconfirmed, at this time.

(05-09-2016 07:44 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(05-06-2016 01:19 PM)mtmedlin Wrote:  and btw, it is ESPN who is speeding up the process of making the ACC network. So I guess they arent afraid to spend.

Its just the opposite...as the ACC has been working with ESPN for 6 years in ESPN's "promise" to start up an ACC Network...and if they don't by an upcoming deadline...ESPN will make a large one-time payment to the ACC...and many think, ESPN will do just that...as ESPN has had zero luck in finding regional, let alone national partners that want to add (and charge all of their customers, if they watch the channel or not), more $$$.

From last Oct after 5 years of trying to start up ACC Network:
http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/acc-netw...quest.html

With Big Ten and SEC Conf raking in tens of millions of $$$ per year (they actually have some demand for that product), but with Pac-12's Conf TV Network no where close to the revenue that's generated by those 2 conferences....its been rough sailing for those trying to get ACC TV Network off the ground.

I can tell you that it hasn't been luck at finding partners as much as it has been other priorities. B1G, NBA, etc. The ambiguity is out of the way and ESPN doesn't want to lose the markets. Hence the profitable markets migrated to the AAC.

(05-09-2016 07:44 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(05-06-2016 01:19 PM)mtmedlin Wrote:  and btw, it is ESPN who is speeding up the process of making the ACC network. So I guess they arent afraid to spend.

Its just the opposite...as the ACC has been working with ESPN for 6 years in ESPN's "promise" to start up an ACC Network...and if they don't by an upcoming deadline...ESPN will make a large one-time payment to the ACC...and many think, ESPN will do just that...as ESPN has had zero luck in finding regional, let alone national partners that want to add (and charge all of their customers, if they watch the channel or not), more $$$.

From last Oct after 5 years of trying to start up ACC Network:
http://awfulannouncing.com/2015/acc-netw...quest.html

With Big Ten and SEC Conf raking in tens of millions of $$$ per year (they actually have some demand for that product), but with Pac-12's Conf TV Network no where close to the revenue that's generated by those 2 conferences....its been rough sailing for those trying to get ACC TV Network off the ground.

Well, it isn't a one-time payment... it's an increase of $45 million per year, for the duration of the contract. That's why many think an ACC Network is inevitable, even if it doesn't launch this year.

(05-06-2016 10:40 AM)msm96wolf Wrote:  Heard a while back on the Raleigh Talk Radio, ND does get a say on who the partner would be at 16. How true this is, who knows. They also think ND wants it to be Navy because of the history and the ACC would like to be back in DC area. Again, just talking heads in the Raleigh area, I consider it a rumor but I do think they tend to have more connections to the ACC insiders. Don't see it happening in my life time but one never knows.

The ACC IS in the DC area. UVA and Virginia Tech, and the rest of the schools in the South, represent the area well. If it is so important to the ACC, UVA and VPI can play their annual game at RFK.

Connecticut will be a great addition for the ACC.

The ACC Network is needed to showcase the football and basketball league. It isn't for the UNC- Miami football game. It is for the Wake Forest-Clemson game. It is for the Boston College-Virginia Tech game. It is for the NC State-Syracuse game. It is for the Pittsburgh-Georgia Tech game.

The conference has inventory and fan bases that wish to have access to it.