If you listen to the TV execs, commissioners and AD’s, population density does matter because that is where the viewers are living. This is the reason why the Big 12 was never able to get its own network. ESPN will keep the east coast markets and add in the best Big 12 markets. This will allow ESPN to expand the ACCN to more states.
The Big12 could never get its own network because their largest brand had its own.
Who gave them that again?
The Big 12 didn’t have the footprint for its own network and ESPN is not investing the money now to build a network for them. Not having your own network is a major disadvantage for the Big 12.
Please tell me what football brands are in the Big 12 that people care about. I'm not being facetious, I really can't think of any. Arizona St? Maybe Colorado until Deion is gone? Maybe I'm on a zone patrol but I don't really think K-State when I think football brand.
They have 4 teams in Texas, and the those alums will watch their football team every weekend (unlike the 4 ACC teams in NC). Big 12 Network could literally do a Friday Night Light game with High School Teams at any Texas program and get eyes on it then Wake vs BC.
UNC and NC State draw 50k to their stadiums every game and have plenty of alumni eyeballs supporting football. Lumping them in with Duke & Wake is incorrect. Their following is similar to or stronger than Baylor, TT, TCU or Houston.
That's the difference in the Big 12 and ACC, the top 3 to 6 programs in Texas are as strong as the Flagship School of NC.
Because having hundreds of millions of dollars more in media revenue distributions over those decades would somehow put us in a worse position?
Fair enough, but your blanket statement calling all 4 ACC football programs hot garbage was incorrect.
Agreed - I was responding to a different assertion that was about the 4 NC programs in the league.
With cord cutting and the move to streaming, I would think the ACCN will not exist in 10 years as the content is rolled into whatever the ESPN streaming service is down the road. ACCN subscriber counts have already peaked (same for ESPN) although they will get some revenue uptick in the short term as they add more in conference geographies.
It's not just ESPN in Bristol. There's YES, NBC, CBS and WWE in Stamford. Some people just don't get it.ESPN: Repealing film tax credit ‘will cause a chilling effect’ on sports media company’s future growth in CT
Dozens of film and production industry workers and leaders converged on the Legislative Office Building in Hartford Wednesday to voice their opposition to a bill that would eliminate Connecticut’s film production tax credit. Among the companies raising red flags about the proposal is sports...www.hartfordbusiness.com
I am not a fan of Bristol but could never figure out some of the opponents to this credit. If you say, you don’t think government should be choosing industries to give breaks to that is one thing. Many of the opponents have mentioned in the past getting rid of the credit and raising revenue based on what they will bring in by removing the credit. What they don’t understand is a movie will not be filmed in Connecticut, or a company will not be here, so you will not be receiving that revenue.
I am hoping the credit stays, but I am also hoping CT legislators that support UConn get use it for leverage with ESPN to get UConn into a power conference.
If they haven't been able to leverage it in a over a dozen years, why do we think they will be able to do it now?
I am assuming that they never tried. Maybe they still won't try.
too many people forget that businesses will move and entertainment has been more than willing to move whenever possible.