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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 129596982" data-attributes="member: 1428007">WHAT IS THE INCENTIVE FOR ESPN HERE?A.  ESPN bought rights to ALL ACC content through 2027B:  ESPN sublicensed a bunch of content to Raycom--31 live football games and 60 live men's basketball games--Raycom then sublicensed 17 football and 25 basketball games to FOX.C.  ESPN pays A SECOND TIME for those SAME ACC rights and pays enough for Raycom to get rights back from FOX and RAYCOMD.  ESPN creates an ACC channel and pays the ACC A SECOND TIME for THE SAME RIGHTS THEY BOUGHT IN STEP A (and paid a second time for in step C).There is no incentive for ESPN to do this.  They are being paid over $50 million PER YEAR by Raycom for these syndicated rights and share $0 and $0 cents with the ACC from this BECAUSE THEY ALREADY PAID THE ACC FOR THOSE RIGHTS.$50 million over the next decade is $500 million that ESPN is getting from those ACC sublicensed rights.Likewise ESPN puts on a certain amount of ACC content on its existing TV and digital platforms for an $18 mil average per year to ACC schools through 2027.  ESPN makes money off of that content.  Why is ESPN going to take content they monetize off of their platforms to repackage it into an ACC network just so they can pay the ACC MORE money for something ESPN already bought, and in doing so lose a good portion if not all of what they(ESPN) were earning?Honestly cannot understand how anyone doesn't get this.  It isn't complicated.Tiger talks alot of b.s., but he has yet to answer WHY ESPN would do this--just keeps claiming they are going to (much like the fabled "if they don't get a network they get an ever changing amount of money", while no other conference gets the same deal?This article sums it up succinctly and is as valid today as it was yesterday:When it signed its ACC deal in 2010, ESPN and Charlotte-based Raycom Sports cut a deal that grants Raycom the ACC’s digital and corporate sponsorship rights, plus a heavy dose of live football and basketball games. Through a sublicensing agreement, Raycom owns the rights to 31 live football games and 60 live men’s basketball games. Even if the conference is able to buy back those rights from Raycom, a second roadblock remains. Raycom sublicensed 17 of those football games and 25 of those basketball games to Fox, which carries the games on its regional sports networks throughout the ACC footprint.....Live local sports programming is important to Fox’s RSNs, and they are not likely to give up those games cheaply.The games that stay with Raycom make up the ACC’s long-running syndicated package that is distributed to more than 50 million households on over-the-air networks, and reaches 25 of the top 50 U.S. TV markets.Those deals extend through 2027.It’s unlikely that ESPN will try to launch a channel without those rights. ESPN brought all of those rights — TV, digital, sponsorship — together as it formed the SEC Network, which launches in August 2014......“There’s no way an ACC network co-exists with a syndicated model,” said Chris Bevilacqua, a media consultant who worked with the Pac-12 to form a league network. “They’re going to have to get those rights back.”<a href="http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/05/20/Media/ACC-net.aspx">http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/05/20/Media/ACC-net.aspx</a></blockquote>

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