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Message: [QUOTE="btstimpy, post: 1032958, member: 2673"] NBC has proposed it, but all indicators are that ESPN will be doing the channel. NBC will be providing Notre Dame Football content, so they will be paid for it. It won't be live ND home games, but classic games, coaches shows, interviews, etc. that these channels have. I don't know if it is $700 million, but the ACC has the most subscribers in its footprint of any conference, and ESPN knows how to leverage its channels and Disney's channels to get its channels carried. If it gets anywhere close to what the SECN got per subscriber, the ACC can make it up in volume. ND isn't helping out. They are part of the conference and know they can't create a Notre Dame Football only channel per the Longhorn Network experience even being a national brand. One sport at one school makes for less of a channel than all sports at one school like Texas. So which channel would they put the content? On the one with the rest of ND sports. Why hide their football content from their fans if the rest of ND is part of a channel. They value football independence. They don't have to join the football conference to use the channel. ESPN will already be showing ND football road games. There are classic ND vs Miami, ND vs FSU, ND vs Boston College, and ND vs Pitt games out there that could be used. I'm told that a lot of what the BTN shows are classic football games. What's wrong with ND games? Somebody would watch them. [/QUOTE]