I have been reading on here that ESPN is buying ACC team's tier 3 right's. What are they paying per year and is it the same for each team ?

(12-12-2012 03:19 AM)Cardsfan1974 Wrote:  I have been reading on here that ESPN is buying ACC team's tier 3 right's. What are they paying per year and is it the same for each team ?

They're not buying the rights because they already own them. They are paying certain school to make some events ESPN3 exclusives. Which is good because many of these events would have been unbroadcast other wise.

From this article it almost sounds like ESPN is paying the schools to produce the tier 3 games which ESPN already owns the rights to... more like a sub-contractor deal

http://sportsvideo.org/main/blog/2012/11...ge-sports/

On the conference expansion board they were talking about ESPN and the ACC being in talks of creating an ESPNACC that would be on the same tier as ESPNU and ESPNNews across the country. If that were true I'd think we'd see a big contract boost. Could really bring exposure to olympic sports too because with the recent additions the ACC has become the the premiere Baseball/Soccer conference in the nation. Something they could market and build over time into a HUGE money maker I'd think.

(12-12-2012 08:53 AM)krux Wrote:  On the conference expansion board they were talking about ESPN and the ACC being in talks of creating an ESPNACC that would be on the same tier as ESPNU and ESPNNews across the country. If that were true I'd think we'd see a big contract boost. Could really bring exposure to olympic sports too because with the recent additions the ACC has become the the premiere Baseball/Soccer conference in the nation. Something they could market and build over time into a HUGE money maker I'd think.

The ACC excels in many non-revenue sports like women's basketball, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, and women's lacrosse which are all good sports for TV.

Looking at the current AP poll for women's basketball...

#4 Duke
#5 Notre Dame
#8 Louisville
#10 Maryland
#19 North Carolina
#21 Miami

Others receiving votes
Florida State
Syracuse

End of last baseball season...

#4 Florida State
#13 NC State
#17 North Carolina
#23 Virginia

Others receiving votes
Clemson
Georgia Tech
Louisville
Miami

End of last softball season

#7 Louisville
#20 Florida State
#21 North Carolina

Others receiving votes
Georgia Tech
Notre Dame
Syracuse
Virginia Tech

End of last soccer season...

#3 Maryland
#5 North Carolina
#8 Notre Dame
#9 Louisville
#17 Syracuse
#22 Wake Forest

Others receiving votes
Virginia

End of last lacrosse season...

#2 Maryland
#3 Notre Dame
#4 Duke
#5 Virginia
#11 North Carolina
#14 Syracuse (Boy, was last year a bad season...)

End of last women's lacrosse season...

#2 Syracuse
#4 Maryland
#5 North Carolina
#6 Duke
#8 Notre Dame
#11 Virginia