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Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

upstater said:
You have to wonder if cable systems in states like California or Texas are going to say, YES, ACC, we agree to jack up everyone's rate by 50 cents so ALL our cable subscribers can watch SMU or Stanford.

This doesn't seem feasible to me.
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I live in NJ and have the ACC network. How is that possible with no ACC teams? I don't even have a damn choice as it is part of the sports regional package.
 
upstater said:
You have to wonder if cable systems in states like California or Texas are going to say, YES, ACC, we agree to jack up everyone's rate by 50 cents so ALL our cable subscribers can watch SMU or Stanford.

This doesn't seem feasible to me.
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I was trying to research how this works. Who says Texan cable companies will agree to even carry the. Acc network?
 
djct1999 said:
I was trying to research how this works. Who says Texan cable companies will agree to even carry the. Acc network?
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ESPN has a lot of power in the cable space. Heck, cable might go from sickly to dead w/o a cooperative ESPN. ESPN has the strongest hand to play with any cable operator to raise rates and add channels. They hold the cards for a lot of desired content.
 
upstater said:
They did all that...

...to land in a power conference, which...

would shrink the deficit.
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They were building new baseball, soccer, and hockey stadiums to try and land in a power conference?

No wonder we're not in a power conference.

Men's basketball barely even matters, let alone everything else.
 
Exit 4 said:
ESPN has a lot of power in the cable space. Heck, cable might go from sickly to dead w/o a cooperative ESPN. ESPN has the strongest hand to play with any cable operator to raise rates and add channels. They hold the cards for a lot of desired content.
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We're going to get Rutgerzed. I can't believe cable subscription rates are going to be a thing in 2023.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
Don't think most people in CA even heard of SMU. They hardly care about Stanford and Cal football, you think they gonna care about SMU and ACC teams?
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I'm saying the CA cable companies won't raise the carriage fees because the ACC added Stanford and Cal
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
They were building new baseball, soccer, and hockey stadiums to try and land in a power conference?

No wonder we're not in a power conference.

Men's basketball barely even matters, let alone everything else.
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Most P5 schools with a breadth of programs indeed have facilities for their non-revenue programs
 
yuckformak said:
I live in NJ and have the ACC network. How is that possible with no ACC teams? I don't even have a damn choice as it is part of the sports regional package.
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Right, but they charge pennies. Some of these channels charge less than 5 cents a month.
 
shizzle787 said:
We're going to get Rutgerzed. I can't believe cable subscription rates are going to be a thing in 2023.
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Yep, still a thing today.....a lesser thing...but a thing.

And grabbing more markets is still a thing.

We don't add markets to the ACC and that is a huge problem.
 
yuckformak said:
I live in NJ and have the ACC network. How is that possible with no ACC teams? I don't even have a damn choice as it is part of the sports regional package.
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I pretty much get the opposite of what actually interests me, save for my pricey NFL Sunday Ticket subscription. Everything is such a joke when it comes to sports broadcast rights and policies. I hope it all comes crashing down, because the current landscape truly sucks. Tons of blackouts for local teams, but constant access to the ACC/Big 10/SEC networks so that I'm reminded how excluded UConn is.
 
Greedo said:
This is honestly hilarious. I can’t even be mad anymore it’s just getting so absurd.
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It's like watching a remake. It may be well done but since you know what's going to happen, there is no suspense.
 
Exit 4 said:
Yep, still a thing today.....a lesser thing...but a thing.

And grabbing more markets is still a thing.

We don't add markets to the ACC and that is a huge problem.
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With regards to the ACC, ESPN is generally driven by rivalries (as opposed to Fox which is generally driven by markets).
 
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UConnJim said:
Simple. ACC Network and carriage fees in a large metro area and state. If the ACC takes SMU it’s a ST solution, but LT mistake.
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Is CT not additive to the ACCN? Is it already in the fold because of BC?
 
upstater said:
Right, but they charge pennies. Some of these channels charge less than 5 cents a month.
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Earlier this year, I called Optimum (Altice) to cancel a bunch of movie channels I do not watch.

I was transferred to sales - ended up paying $40 less per month for the movie channels - and they threw in the SEC/ACC/B10 networks (I think BeIn too).

I think the ACCN has been available to me for years - but it's a separate subscription (as part of a sports block).

It's nothing like SNY/YES/NESN (or ESPN) - which are included in the base subscription.
 
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aburks41 said:
I just can't believe that carriers would pay for the ACCN because of SMU. The 8th most popular program in their own city. It just doesn't make any sense. Dallas has a population of 1.2M. CT has a population of 3.6M. What are we doing here?
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Dallas-Fort Worth is the #5 TV market in US. That is ~3 million.
 
UConnJim said:
Dallas-Fort Worth is the #5 TV market in US. That is ~3 million.
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His point still stands. Even if those 3 million people were divided equally among the eight programs in the region, which they are not, it still is a far smaller share than Connecticut which is the only college show available for the states 3,000,000+ people.
 
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