ESPN vs Direct TV and the ACC

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Interesting

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Good read, excellent breakout of subscriber costs. So much going on behind the scenes.

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Good read
 Check out this excerpt:

The ACC Network is only profitable due to the statewide carriage agreements that Disney previously forced on cable providers. Former ESPN President John Skipper confirmed ESPN’s carriage agreements for the ACC Network stipulated an entire state is considered “in-conference” if it contained one ACC school. The ACC Network charges a subscriber fee of $1.30 a month if you are considered “in-conference” compared to 25 cents a month if you are “out-of-conference.” Due to this agreement cable subscribers in New York City pay $1.30 a month for the ACC Network despite Syracuse being 4 hours away.

(updated) So now that Texas and California are ‘in-conference’, ESPN is on the hook to provide 1.30 per subscriber vs. .25 for those two states to the ACC and it sounds like part of this is getting the carriers to pony up.

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This is why your cable bill keep increasing.
:rage:

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ESPN has no one to blame but themselves

They started this very expensive realignment carousel by moving Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC.

I honestly wonder if anyone at ESPN knew HOW EXPENSIVE that move would have eventually ended up costing ESPN.

They now have to pay their portion of P4 shares to Houston, Cincinnati,UCF & BYU, instead of the $8 million they were paying them in the AAC

They thought they were eliminating P4 payments from the PAC but the once dead Big 12 added 4 that ESPN had to pay their portion of the ESPN/FOX share.

Regardless of the ACC distribution schedule to the actual teams, Stanford/CAL/ SMU are paid FULL ESPN SHARES to the conference by ESPN.

And NOW
we will see if SDSU, Boise, Fresno and Colorado State are set to get a raise from ESPN because the never FULLY KILLED the PAC and the embers started to light back up.

PLUS all of teh minor moves like UTSA and SHSU gettingpumps up and a raise from ESPN

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They’ll negotiate with DirecTV and continue with ACC because it’s a good value at todays rates.

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FWIW, figured it might be time to renegotiate my u-verse and internet plans with everything going on. To be fair, I have had their service a long time and think that helped. Got a $200 isp gift card, $30 espen credit instead of $20, and an additional nice discount on my tv service.

Astros win, Harwell commits, and saved some coin. Been a good day!

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I live near Dallas and received a notification that my ESPN+ cost was increasing. I take it SMU is the reason (or part of it).