ACC, CW ink deal to air 50 football, hoops video games

This plunge, the ACC will launch airing football and basketball events on the CW Network, a new addition to the league’s Saturday broadcast agenda.

The CW has secured the rights to 50 ACC video games, starting up Sept. 9 with Pitt‘s football sport against Cincinnati. Thirteen ACC football video games will air Saturdays on the CW, that will per chance maybe broadcast 28 ACC males’s and women’s basketball video games all over December, January and February. The ACC will bask in males’s basketball doubleheaders on the CW every Saturday, and women’s basketball doubleheaders on Sunday afternoons.

Raycom Sports actions, which sublicences ACC events from ESPN, sold its rights to the CW nonetheless will continue producing them. The CW has no longer aired faculty sports events nonetheless is the interesting dwelling for LIV Golf. The network is most efficient known for broadcast sequence, at the side of “All-American,” which specializes in faculty football gamers in the Los Angeles dwelling.

“We’re overjoyed to be adding The CW to our weekly television lineup for ACC football and basketball video games,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips stated in a press launch. “The CW’s nationwide distribution will abruptly help our pupil-athletes, teams, alumni and fans. We admire ESPN and Raycom working together and survey ahead to the partnership with The CW.”

The ACC in July 2016 agreed to a 20-yr media rights settlement with ESPN that runs thru the 2035-36 academic yr. Some league contributors bask in expressed frustration with the long-term settlement, because the ACC vastly trails the SEC and Immense Ten in revenue. Phillips has vowed to be inventive in searching for alternate choices to create elevated revenue.