ACC, CW ink deal to air 50 football, hoops games

This fall, the ACC will start airing soccer and basketball occasions on the CW Community, a brand new addition to the league’s Saturday broadcast schedule.

The CW has secured the rights to 50 ACC video games, starting Sept. 9 with Pitt‘s soccer sport in opposition to Cincinnati. 13 ACC soccer video games will air Saturdays on the CW, which is able to broadcast 28 ACC males’s and girls’s basketball video games all through December, January and February. The ACC could have males’s basketball doubleheaders on the CW each Saturday, and girls’s basketball doubleheaders on Sunday afternoons.

Raycom Sports activities, which sublicences ACC occasions from ESPN, offered its rights to the CW however will proceed producing them. The CW has not aired faculty sports activities occasions however is the unique dwelling for LIV Golf. The community is finest identified for broadcast sequence, together with “All-American,” which focuses on faculty soccer gamers within the Los Angeles space.

“We’re thrilled to be including The CW to our weekly tv lineup for ACC soccer and basketball video games,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips stated in an announcement. “The CW’s nationwide distribution will straight profit our student-athletes, groups, alumni and followers. We admire ESPN and Raycom working collectively and sit up for the partnership with The CW.”

The ACC in July 2016 agreed to a 20-year media rights settlement with ESPN that runs by means of the 2035-36 educational yr. Some league members have expressed frustration with the long-term settlement, because the ACC considerably trails the SEC and Massive Ten in income. Phillips has vowed to be artistic in in search of options to create larger income.