ESPN owns the ACC's tier 3 content. The Pac 12 kept their tier 3 and a lot

of Tier 1 content. Their basketball tournament is on the Pac 12 network and there was talk of keeping the 6 rivalry games (Wash WashST, Ore-OreSt, Stan-Cal, USC-UCLA, Arz-ArzSt and Utah-Col.) on the network. They choose not to put the rivalry games on the Pac 12 network but have the option to do so if carriage gets high enough.

The ACC can't do what the Pac 12 did because we sold all our content to ESPN. We are pretty much at their mercy with regards to what they want to do. We have to take what they decide and like it. Don't be surprised if the ACCN is 60% owned by ESPN and 40% for the ACC.

In response to this post by chuckd4vt

Posted: 06/18/2016 at 11:40PM

Larry Scott: "PAC-12N Optimal Model for US" -- HOO86 06/16/2016 5:06PM

Adding 4 Big 12 schools would improve distribution.. -- Old Line Hokie 06/17/2016 11:15AM

I think the PAC12 has a luxury that the ACC doesn't have... -- Mr. Touchdown 06/17/2016 10:46AM

I see it very differently... -- jesuisvtguy 06/18/2016 05:00AM

Tens of millions less people there and college sports are not as relevant. -- chuckd4vt 06/18/2016 01:34AM

Love that model. It's ALREADY worth $800 million. -- chuckd4vt 06/16/2016 10:04PM

Read it again. to make the profit now, they have to sell. to get -- daveinop 06/17/2016 08:03AM

Understand. But they've been doing SOMETHING. Cashing some checks already. -- chuckd4vt 06/17/2016 3:05PM

Or you could try to address the conundrum raised by the author -- daveinop 06/17/2016 5:10PM

The take the money now or wait till later question isn't a bad one. ** -- chuckd4vt 06/18/2016 01:31AM

I'm not so bullish on the pac12n model -- ren_hoek 06/17/2016 06:57AM

What are you going to say if the ACCNetwork is nowhere near the SECNetwork? -- chuckd4vt 06/17/2016 3:08PM

ESPN owns the ACC's tier 3 content. The Pac 12 kept their tier 3 and a lot -- ChrisLords 06/18/2016 11:40PM

Agree to disagree -- ren_hoek 06/17/2016 4:46PM

Relying to ESPN to force providers to pay for ACCN -- Colonel Jessup 06/18/2016 08:05AM

Even though the Pac-12N model may not be generating as much revenue -- VTHokie2000 06/16/2016 5:56PM

The weakness is they have no leverage in distribution and fees -- daveinop 06/17/2016 08:07AM

But they're increasing it slowly but surely. And they aren't sharing profit -- chuckd4vt 06/17/2016 3:12PM

Rinse, repeat** -- daveinop 06/17/2016 5:14PM

Since no one knows what the future will be in terms of distribution -- VTHokie2000 06/17/2016 12:04PM

Larry Scott claims that his way is better. -- HOO86 06/16/2016 8:16PM

ESPN owns the ACC's tier 3 content. The Pac 12 kept their tier 3 and a lot

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