Tidbit on ACCN expected revenues

[PittMan 72]

This quote is certainly encouraging:

"The addition of the ACC Network will increase the league's overall value, putting it in line with the top Power 5 conferences."

" 'When the ACC Network revenues are included, the ACC will be very competitive with the upper tier [Big Ten and SEC] of the Power 5 leagues,' " a source said. "

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...year-rights-deal-lead-2019-launch-acc-network

 

[9nationalchampionships]

Sounds like the total revenue will be 3rd out of the P5s! I can live with that.

 

[mvk112]

The SEC network has about 70 million subscribers. As some suggested, they can link the ACCN to the SECN in FL, GA, KY, and SC, and I don't think they'll get much trouble getting it on NC and Virginia. If they can get on the same tier as the BTN in PA and NY (not to mention MA), that will be huge for the network and for the ACC in general. Without ND football, it will be a bit tougher sell in Indiana and Illinois, but if they manage that, it may be the most profitable network of any conference.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

One key will be making sure they get carriage on Directv and Dish Network. Tying it in with the SEC Network surely won't hurt that.

 

[ThePanthers]

One key will be making sure they get carriage on Directv and Dish Network. Tying it in with the SEC Network surely won't hurt that.

They are going to tie it to the entire family of networks.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

The SEC network has about 70 million subscribers. As some suggested, they can link the ACCN to the SECN in FL, GA, KY, and SC, and I don't think they'll get much trouble getting it on NC and Virginia. If they can get on the same tier as the BTN in PA and NY (not to mention MA), that will be huge for the network and for the ACC in general. Without ND football, it will be a bit tougher sell in Indiana and Illinois, but if they manage that, it may be the most profitable network of any conference.

Yea, no problem in FL, GA, SC, KY, NC, VA for reasons you mentioned. They also should be good in DC, SW PA, Central NY, and Northern Indiana. I'd expect the rest of PA, NY, Ind, and nearby states like WV, MD, DE, NJ to get a discounted rate. So maybe like 35 cents in those states and 10 cents in NM, AZ, TX, etc.

 

[vinniep33]

They are going to tie it to the entire family of networks.

The cable networks should package the B1G, SEC and ACC Networks with MLB, NBA, NFL and NHL in central and eastern time zones and the PAC12, Texas in central, mountain and pacific zones

 

[Tarheel94]

If Dish and DirectTV want their customers to see the #1 basketball conference games, I am sure they will play ball. Too many northerners who love college bball to miss out on.

 

[CaptainSidneyReilly]

McMurphy also notes that the new deal extends Notre Dame's contract to be a member of the ACC in every sport except football through the 2035-36 season. The Irish will continue to schedule ACC opponents in football and would be contractually required to join the league if it decided to give up independence and join a conference within the next two decades.

The reports come at an interesting time. Monday was the first of two media days for the Big 12, which does not have a uniform conference channel -- only Texas has the Longhorn Network partnership with ESPN -- and is still considering expansion. Big 12 presidents are expected to meet on Tuesday to discuss that topic.

LINK:
http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...lone-network-as-part-of-new-extended-tv-deal/

 

[QuitCallingMeWanny]

Outkick the Coverage has a pretty good article on it.....I am too lazy to link it

 

[CaptainSidneyReilly]

LINK:
http://www.outkickthecoverage.com/what-s-the-acc-network-worth-071916

Thanks Wanny,
Excerpts Below & Link Above:
What's the ACC Network Worth?
July 19, 2016 at 4:02p ET
Right now the ACC has teams in nine states -- New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Florida, and Georgia. In those nine states there are roughly 29 million cable and satellite subscribers. Of these nine ACC states, North Carolina has four teams and Virginia and Florida have two teams each. So over half the conference is locked into three states. The other six states have the remaining six teams. With that in mind let's look at the five biggest questions looming to determine what the ACC Network's value is.....................That gives you $180 million in revenue, minus $100 million a year to run the network, plus the $90 million in the out of state footprint revenue. ................

4. What's the best move the ACC could make?
Adding Notre Dame and Texas. A 16 team ACC with Notre Dame and Texas as full members could be a gamechanger for the ACC Network because it would add the state of Texas -- and its eight million cable and satellite subscribers -- along with the national cachet of Notre Dame. The challenge here? Notre Dame and Texas already have lucrative television deals with NBC and the ESPN/Longhorn Network, respectively. Also, as an added difficulty, Texas would have to extricate itself from the Big 12 and leave behind the other Texas schools in a vastly weakened conference. That seems very difficult. What's more, it's downright impossible to get Texas by 2019 given the rights deals the Longhorns have already signed. (NOT IMPOSSIBLE, HE MISSES THE POINT IF BIG-12 DISSOLVES THERE ARE NO MORE CONTRACTS OR AGREEMENTS MADE IN MY POSTS EARLIER TODAY?)

Given that NBC already gets all of Notre Dame's home games, how many Notre Dame football games could actually air on the ACC Network even if the Fighting Irish joined the ACC as full members? One or two at most, probably. But if you're thinking of best case scenarios for the ACC, that's it. That knocks down the distribution to around $6 million a school.

5. Okay, so what's the best case scenario that could happen for the ACC Network in 2019?
Instead, I think they'll decide to turn ESPNU into the ACC Network. (Given that the SEC Network now carries most SEC events along with ESPN and ESPN2 and that many Big Ten games will be heading to Fox, there isn't that much content on ESPNU from the SEC and the Big Ten. Plus, the Pac 12 and the Big 12 would prefer that their games air on ESPN and ESPN2 since they're available in more homes. So ESPNU could make sense for the ACC.) Right now the ESPNU is in roughly 70 million households and brings in .22 a month in subscriber revenue. That's $184.8 million a year in revenue. I believe ESPN will try and take the ESPNU rates up to around $1 a month in the nine state ACC footprint and keep the rate outside the footprint pretty much the same, potentially going up a dime or so. If ESPN could bump up the revenue of the ACC Network to the point where 19 million cable and satellite subscribers are paying $1 a month -- that would be the subscribers in the six states of North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Kentucky, Georgia, and South Carolina -- then you'd make $228 million more in revenue for ESPNU even if you're fighting carriage battles in Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts. Combine the revenue from the ACC's Southern states with the $110 million more in revenue from the 37 million subscribers in other parts of the country outside the ACC footprint, then substract the $100 million in channel operating costs, and you're talking about around $8 million per ACC school off the ACC Network...............GO TO LINK!

Looks like he was reading the Lair some, no one mentioned ND until posted here last night? Don't agree with everything but touches on the complexity of starting a network in this day and age, and why I argued should have done it in 2010 without Raycom, but good reasons why that was tougher to do than say and so we await until another day tomorrow and in 2019.

 

[mvk112]

They should be able to get $1 per month in footprint for all but PA, NY, and MA. Getting .50 per month there would be good I think. Then try for .33 out of footprint, and you're looking at over $10m per year per team if the ESPN/ACC split is close to 50/50.

Notre Dame probably gets you into Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and maybe Michigan for $1 per subscriber per month, plus probably kicks PA, NY, and MA up to $1. Texas gets you $1 per month in all of those Texas homes.

At that point, you're probably looking at close to $20m per year per team from the network. On top of a likely increase from ABC/ESPN for the standard deal.

It's quite the longshot but it's what the goal should be.