The ACC Network is the ACC’s Best Money Making Hope – via The News & Observer

A recent article by the News & Observers says the ACC Network is the conference’s best money making hope. I think most ACC fans realize this is true, but the article written by @LukeDeCock has some very interesting notes. In Italics are quotes from the News and Observer article. 

It was not a coincidence that Disney. which owns ESPN, was engaged in a pivotal programming negotiation with Altice, the cable provider that serves 2.4 million customers in the New York metropolitan area. Among Disney’s demands, which included price hikes for several channels: Carry ESPN’s new ACC Network, which will launch next summer.

That the ACC Network was among Disney’s top priorities underlined how important that new network is to ESPN.

This is a great point by DeCock. It is certainly in ESPN’s best interest that the ACC Network is success, and it is going to be a priority for the 4 letter network.

Here’s the key to ACC Network success…

Disney is in the midst of a two-year cycle in which it will renegotiate almost all of its carriage contracts with cable and satellite providers as well as the new wave of online content providers. In all of those negotiations, the ACC Network has been a priority, both inside and outside the conference’s geographical footprint.

With barely a year left until the network launches, the carriage contracts are what will determine how well the network does. It can’t get here soon enough…

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