It looks like the ACC Network has its first carriage agreement in place

I have attached a very good article from Andrew Bucholtz of Awful Announcing that discusses how even the most conservative of estimates will place ACC Networks ahead of the Pac 12 once the network is up and running in 2019.

Also of interest is that the network has its first carrier in Altice. All of you up in the NYC area will have the luxury of not being asked to badger your pay TV operator to carry the network. It is interesting that the ESPN stunt to place College Gameday in Times Square had a lot to do with the negotiations that were taking place between Altice and Disney regarding carrying the network.

Let's hope this starts a good trend and that we will be reading about carriage agreements that include Comcast, Charter (Spectrum), Cox, AT&T (Direct) and Dish. AT&T and Dish agreements should also include DirecTV Now and Sling for all of the cord cutters out there. Also I am very curious to find out if they will try to get a deal with Google to carry on YouTube.
[Post edited by CobbCountyHokie at 06/18/2018 4:14PM]

Posted: 06/18/2018 at 4:14PM

It looks like the ACC Network has its first carriage agreement in place -- CobbCountyHokie 06/18/2018 4:14PM

Acc knew what they were doing/partnering with ESPN was a key component -- Mercury 06/18/2018 8:02PM

ESPN was a smart partner choice. However, giving ESPN (most? all?) of -- Late 80s Hokie 06/20/2018 5:06PM

We can ageee to disagree -- Mercury 06/20/2018 6:37PM

I'm pretty much always good with that approach. ** -- Late 80s Hokie 06/20/2018 9:27PM

ACC didn't have a choice, as ESPN holds all the Tier 3 rights... -- Freddyburg Hokie 06/19/2018 1:17PM

For TV, yes. VT averages about $7m/yr from IMG for other "Tier 3" rights ** -- daveinop 06/22/2018 06:31AM

They have those rights because we made an agreement with them. There was a -- Stech 06/20/2018 11:53AM

Was ESPN the only network interested in the ACC at the time? -- VTHokie2000 06/20/2018 1:28PM

There were others, but none with the muscle in the market like ESPN. -- Stech 06/20/2018 8:04PM

Out of the ballpark boom ** -- Mercury 06/22/2018 12:01PM

Up next FiOS this fall. Spectrum and ATT in 2019. -- HOO86 06/18/2018 5:00PM

I'm guessing Comcast will not let the FOX deal stand in the way of enticing -- seekoHoG 06/20/2018 8:03PM

Better late than never ** -- nebraskafaninwi 06/18/2018 5:00PM

It looks like the ACC Network has its first carriage agreement in place

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