Random related ACC Network factoids/predictions/promise of LINEAR network

Solid comments from 'many faced god' posted below.

Big ten network launch:
2007 Pac 12 network launch:
2012 Sec network launch:
2014
Acc network launch: 2019 - ?

David Glenn Show‏ @DavidGlennShow 16h16 hours ago

BREAKING: Internal @theACC memo sent today reflects @espn assurances that ACC has "total confirmation" of ACC Network launch (Summer 2019).pic.twitter.com/23JdowSXM4

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/sports/college/fsu/2017/05/02/fsu-still-preparing-acc-network/101217562/

The ACC Network is expected to launch as planned in 2019 despite the recent announcements of cost-cutting at ESPN.
And Florida State, long considered a leader in video sports applications and live event coverage, continues to prepare to be broadcast ready for that day.
Seminole Productions will soon undergo an additional $2 million in state-of-the-art upgrades that include two more control rooms at the Moore Athletic Center. Last summer, the department completed $3 million in renovations that have enhanced the work flow for FSU sporting events.
Funding for both projects is being paid by the Seminoles’ athletic department.
Mark Rodin, director of Seminole Productions, said ESPN wants ACC schools production ready by the fall of 2018. That will allow the company time to train FSU staff and students.
“That will give everyone a year to get up to speed,” Rodin said Tuesday from Greensboro, N.C., where he is attending two days of ACC meetings.
Rodin said discussions include the ACC Network.
Seminole Productions handles many video production needs for FSU athletics and produces more than 100 television programs annually.
The department also produces live events for ESPN, an important component to the ACC’s desire to team with ESPN on a dedicated channel/platform(s).
Last July, the ACC announced the conference had struck a deal with ESPN to launch the ACC-ESPN Network. But many wonder if the ACC Network still has a viable future following last week’s layoffs.
A declining subscriber base and the billions of dollars in rights fees ESPN has paid for live sports programs were seen as the reasons for the cutbacks.
In an exclusive interview with the Democrat last week, FSU Director of Athletics Stan Wilcox believes the ACC Network will be successful.
“Well, I would say that ESPN has a lot of really intelligent individuals who have been monitoring the landscape of this cord-cutting for some time now,” Wilcox said.
“And they already have plans in place as to how they’re going to be able to minimize the cord-cutting that you hear about and see that’s going on. We as athletic directors have heard and seen their plans, that’s for ESPN to really talk to you about.
“But I do believe the ACC Network is still going to be very successful and that’s because they’ve got really good people that have been in this industry for some time and have already anticipated the things that are currently happening and already made plans on how they’re going to deal with that.”
Last year, ACC Network Extra launched. The online streaming service showed over 600 live games in its first year and plans to expand to more than 900 games by 2019.
While Wilcox wouldn’t talk specifics, he also believes the ACC Network will provide another revenue source for the league and FSU.
“I can’t really get into (numbers) but I do feel that we’re going to be very healthy,” Wilcox said.

https://news.fastcompany.com/cord-cutting-spikes-fivefold-in-cable-tvs-worst-quarter-ever-4036578

Cable's day of reckoning has come. With all the major cable and satellite companies having reported their quarterly numbers, analyst firm MoffettNathanson put together a new cord-cutting report, and things are bad. Pay-TV providers lost an estimated 762,000 pay-TV subscribers over the first three months of this year—five times more than they lost during the same period last year. To make matters worse, Q1 has historically been a strong season for pay TV.
"For the better part of 15 years, pundits have predicted that cord-cutting was the future," an apocalyptic Craig Moffett wrote. "Well, the future has arrived."
As I wrote last week, Comcast was the only major provider to buck the trend, but judging by the way things look, that winning streak won't last.
 
http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/05/03/after-layoffs-espn-gave-acc-total-confirmation-the-acc-network-will-launch-in-2019/amp/

Jon Pence‏ @scacchoops May 2

Twitter's live TV investment could be lifeline for ACC Network http://www.scacchoops.com/twitters-live-tv-investment-could-be-lifeline-for-acc-network …pic.twitter.com/bJWFiqnPD2

https://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/moz9.133774/

Popsnole
 july 2016
He's said for quite awhile that Notre Dame will join. Everyone on here has called him an idiot for saying so and while hasn't been announced the wind is going in that direction. I don't know specifically what the other earthquake is but there are a lot of Texas rumors and the winds are blowing that way.

A lot of people on here called him an idiot for even suggesting over the past year or 2 that the network would ever happen. He should by it and was right. Those same people don't now get to say well we all knew that. No one was even believing we would get a network until there was a leak that an announcement was happening.

He also said that only part of it would be announced and the ground breaking stuff would come out later. He was right on that as well assuming the big stuff happens. \

Panole
They laughed at called him out about us getting ONLY a digital channel, then said, well yeah who didn't know a worthless digital channel was coming. BOOM, we are getting both AND ESPN is negotiating for a subscription for the linear channel starting in 2019! Sorry, not a call out but DOT himself stated a few weeks back that it would never happen.

Moz was spot on. Already the naysayers are now dug in on, we don't have ND.


ScottPimpin
You nailed it. I actually want to get behind Moz. I'd love to stay in the ACC and have the ACC stay competitive with any conference. But not sure what Moz has predicted. And I mean that literally. I've asked him directly and asked openly in multiple threads what he has predicted. I never get an answer. I know he predicted ND to ACC in football by 2015. And people in this thread are congratulating him on ND playing out how he predicted.

I am really surprised and excited that the ACC Network will be a linear channel (assuming it comes to be in 2019). I have no clue if Moz predicted that. Most of his board posts are vague like "earthquakes coming". If @moz reads this, help me jump on board. Give me some specifics like you seem to give others. I want you to be right.





https://floridastate.forums.rivals.com/threads/first-acc-network-financial-details-i-have-seen-reported.133855/#post-2229667

moz
July 2016
Yes these are guesstimates to some extent but so are all of the articles that project or report revenue for the other conferences. Bottom line is that this deal is very close to the other conferences and the differences per school are unlikely to be material or to make an impact on the ability to compete in ANY sport. The ACC is well positioned as a power conference and has all of the tools and talent to remain there for a long, long time.


Micco
I'm hearing revenue projections that will put us in the ballpark with SEC, BIG but its awfully hard to compare because of accounting differences. the numbers should be pretty good though. It will be enough to keep us competitive with the other leagues. At least, that is what I'm hearing.

ScottiePimpin said: ↑

Simple questions. What can we expect moving forward? You talk of earthquakes, do you mean expansion? Something else? Also, what does a digital network provide that ESPN3 doesn't already provide for the SEC Network? Finally, if we now have an ACC Network with as much inventory as the SEC Network, and it will be bundled in with all ESPN networks, will that mean in will be in the same number of households as the SEC Network at the same price? Meaning we should get a deal for the same amount?

Moz
I think a lot of your curiosity may have been satisfied by some recent articles. When I constantly refer to the big picture it's not for window dressing because many ADs and university presidents think of itthis way. Many administrations will say they don't want to be like the sec but they want the sec money.

At the end of the day the total difference if any wil be a million or two which in this grand scheme of the college football business is minimal at best.

Seminole72
To borrow a little from Coach Fisher, let's cut the clutter in this discussion.

1. The SEC and B1G have created a revenue gap between themselves and the other P5 member conferences.
2. This gap increased pressure on the 2 other conferences w/out a TV network.
3. After delay, the ACC responded w/ an announcement of their own NW early last week. Although there was a curiously odd leak of the announcement by ESPN that raised expectations in the public.
4. The announcement of a NW was in the context of the existing NWs and the gap that has been created among the 5.
5. The ACC and ESPN announces a ~10 year extension of the GOR which is in effect, a pledge to cede the monetary value of ACC athletic events in exchange for cash,
6. Despite the natural and obvious expectations of the public that they would be receiving an announcement that is about revenue generation, the ACC and ESPN advised that not only would they not provide these essential facts in the announcement, they would also "obfuscate" whenever asked about them.
7. Folks who find this confusing and frustrating ask for more details and are told they are negative complainers.

many faced god

Idk if it's risk aversion on the acc's part or just more evidence that swofford sucks at this. Hmm. Little research says it's both.

It wouldn't just be 5 years after a successful secn launch, it would be TWELVE YEARS after the btn launch, if an "over the top" accn ever launches, let alone in 2019.

I remember FSU fans wanting a network during the 2010 acc negotiations with espn. Btn had already taken hold and was making money.

This is what that idiot #ninja said:
"When you go with somebody for that kind of money with no financial risk and they have the extensive platforms they have to distribute your games -- plus they have the technology and the desire to be on the cutting edge with new media -- it really begs the question: Why would you need your own network?" Swofford said.
http://www.espn.com/college-sports/news/story?id=5363743

That 2010 deal was hailed as a tremendous effort by swofford. Even though: 1) the acc bundled basketball and football together and lost negotiating leverage, 2) gave up revenue to keep raycom afloat, 3) gave up revenue for the "exposure" espn provided - LOL how's that exposure worked out?!, 4) it was 30% less than thesec just received from espn, 5) the pac12 and big12 made the acc's deal look like shit in 2011.

And swofford has contributed to fail upward ever since. Pitt and cuse were emergency additions to salvage a confidence in turmoil. Nd was another emergency addition where the acc felt so threatened they had to give up their long held mantra of "full and equal membership only". Then the acc actually lost a founding member. And the big wigs in the conference initially wanted to replace them with uconn instead of ul. Not to mention a garbage orange bowl deal or that the acc lacks a true #2 bowl now that the peach is gone. Our conference payouts don't cone close to matching our footprint, tv ratings and on field/court success when compared to the other p5. We battle for "not last" instead of being clearly third (or better).

And now, after YEARS of "we're studying a network. We want it to have the perfect launch" from swofford and years of mouth breathers like David teel slurping up every nothingness that swofford tells him...still we have NOTHING.

How in the heck can anyone want swofford to continue to "lead" this conference into the future?

I'm ready for this conference to blow up again. Screw it. I don't even care if the crap for brains tobacco road/acc original all find life boats. I just want their baby to die. I want it to die by their ownhands, their own failures.

Maybe the best of the big12 and acc can form a new league. Wake, nc state, uva (play those scrubs ooc VT), bc, pitt, cuse...you're not invited. Ditto txtech, baylor, kstate, iowast.