Cord-cutting and the ACC Network

[Quix0te]

If the Big Ten Network is getting worried, you guys should be really worried about launching the ACCN next year. Comcast is pulling the BTN from its basic package within the B1G footprint.

https://sports.yahoo.com/cord-cutting-can-change-entire-landscape-college-football-215556228.html

 

[UNC '92]

They (Big Ten) are really worried about not getting a lot of free money they got from people who didn't give a damn about that channel but were paying for it in a basic package. It's a case where technology has corrected a bad practice by cable companies and networks. They can offer it as a premium now and jack the price up on the folks who really want it. I've got no issues with cord-cutters. They are finally forcing media companies into common sense, right-priced offerings for their customers.

 

[tarheel0910]

I'm content with the ESPN ACC digital network. As long as they keep that, I don't care much about the TV channel.

 

[Quix0te]

I'm content with the ESPN ACC digital network. As long as they keep that, I don't care much about the TV channel.

Understood, but the key issue is conference revenue. The Pac-12 has a network and it's great for their fans but they aren't on Comcast and revenue is dismal vs the BTN and SECN.

 

[tarheel0910]

Understood, but the key issue is conference revenue. The Pac-12 has a network and it's great for their fans but they aren't on Comcast and revenue is dismal vs the BTN and SECN.

True, but all I care about is being able to see the diamond heels. I can do that with the digital network. The revenue issue isn't my problem.

 

[WoadBlue]

Understood, but the key issue is conference revenue. The Pac-12 has a network and it's great for their fans but they aren't on Comcast and revenue is dismal vs the BTN and SECN.

What fans? The Pac is a distant #5 among the 5 Power conferences in both revenue sports. Pac baseball is historically great, with no fans: Pac baseball viewers number no more than Big Ten baseball viewers.

The ACC has never expected to make a killing with a network. The ACC wants a venue to expose its many successful non-revenue sports teams, as well as for the football and basketball games that do not get on ESPN, ABC, or another network.

 

[Raising Heel]

I'm content with the ESPN ACC digital network. As long as they keep that, I don't care much about the TV channel.

Same, and I’ll pay a premium if it’s necessary.

 

[Roady]

Money is nice...

But exposure has value...

And what is athletic department money for if not to buy success on the field ?

And as Swofford said recently...the ACC is the only conference to have won national championships, in the last four years, in football, basketball, baseball, and womens basketball.

 

[Roady]

And what is great about ESPN is that they can successfully bundle as they negotiate contracts.

You want ESPN? You get the SECN and ACCN (as New York's cable, Altice, recently had to do).

You want Disney? You get the ESPN family too,

You may cord cut...but if you watch sports, you will be paying ESPN for content...whether it is accessed on roku or hulu ( hulu owned by Disney, by the way).

Disney is bundling Watch ESPN with Watch Disney and Watch Disney Junior channels...

The ACC is lucky to have a powerful partner like Disney/ESPN to build carriage....the Pac 12 found out that it is difficult on your own.

 

[WoadBlue]

Money is nice...

But exposure has value...

And what is athletic department money for if not to buy success on the field ?

And as Swofford said recently...the ACC is the only conference to have won national championships, in the last four years, in football, basketball, baseball, and womens basketball.

I think you have said it as well as it can be said. All kinds of people on the internet talk about such matters as if the money has value, virtually 100% of the value, in and of itself. The purpose, for them, is to be said to have the most money.

The ones I find the most funny are the SEC and Big Ten fans who kept asserting that before too long, ACC schools will be begging to join their leagues, because that is the only way they would have the money to compete.

 

[Quix0te]

The ones I find the most funny are the SEC and Big Ten fans who kept asserting that before too long, ACC schools will be begging to join their leagues, because that is the only way they would have the money to compete.

Uh, one example please? Just one link to such a B1G/SEC fans who posted this, OK? Just one.

 

[UNCTarheel1984]

Suddenlink Cable in my area doesn’t carry the ACCN digital. It’s crazy.

 

[Raising Heel]

Uh, one example please? Just one link to such a B1G/SEC fans who posted this, OK? Just one.

Well that took all of 20 seconds to find.

https://forums.rivals.com/threads/ou-headed-to-sec-rumors.144900/page-3#post-3431928

 

[tarheel0910]

Well that took all of 20 seconds to find.

https://forums.rivals.com/threads/ou-headed-to-sec-rumors.144900/page-3#post-3431928

I like how SEC fans think UNC would join their conference. Shows how little they know.

 

[WoadBlue]

Uh, one example please? Just one link to such a B1G/SEC fans who posted this, OK? Just one.

You ever heard of the purported Auburn fan JRsec? He is a fun example.

 

[WoadBlue]

Uh, one example please? Just one link to such a B1G/SEC fans who posted this, OK? Just one.

Wait a minute - you have 3 posts total and you wish to get huffy with me about anything?

That's the kind gall that usually resides in the worst examples of Big Ten fans.

 

[WoadBlue]

Well that took all of 20 seconds to find.

https://forums.rivals.com/threads/ou-headed-to-sec-rumors.144900/page-3#post-3431928

Almost all such threads start with the same premises: 1) that ultimately there will be 4 Power conferences, which means either the ACC or Big 12 must get raided into non-Power status; 2) it is all about the money, which is going to get so huge for the Big Ten and SEC that in effect the other 2 Power leagues will be hard pressed to compete.

One of the little facts that came out from records made public about Maryland joining the Big Ten was that the BT office suggested that Maryland system President William English 'Brit" Kirwan hire people to go on the internet to trash the ACC as the source of Maryland's failures to pay its bills and then to praise the BT.

When I read that, I knew Kirwan had taken the advice, because I'd noticed at least 6 months before Maryland and the BT announced the move that Maryland boards had recently become infested with ACC-haters. Most of the ACC-hate was directed at UNC, but a good part of it included assertions that FSU and Clemson were already out the door, and that UVA surely would follow Maryland if the BT wanted both.

I do not think those paid BT posters were ever limited to Maryland, nor do I think they have gone away. Nor would I be surprised to learn that the SEC hired its own group to try to keep pace with the BT.

Right now, the most obnoxious of both camps are aimed at OU, because they see OU as more easily messed with than Texas.

 

[Raising Heel]

Wait a minute - you have 3 posts total and you wish to get huffy with me about anything?

That's the kind gall that usually resides in the worst examples of Big Ten fans.

He’s not coming back, is he?