Bally Filing for Bankruptcy(Update: Bally No Longer Airing ACC Sports; New Update - ACC Raycom football and bball games to be broadcast on CW)

[Deacon92]

Bring back Jefferson Pilot TV?

 

[Deaconblue]

What are other potential broadcast partners?

I would guess streaming services. Prime, YTTV etc.

 

[BarcaDeac]

there's always your local CW or MY24 or whatever

 

[DeacDaddy]

I volunteer to simulcast from my mancave

 

[PhDeac]

I would guess streaming services. Prime, YTTV etc.

I hope not but I fear you’re right.

 

[BarcaDeac]

with as bad as the ACC is with rights -- we went from having our games on local over the air stations to RSNs -- I don't think we're going to all of the sudden pivot to a big tech app. maybe some random one like Fubo or Roku.

 

[wakegrrl]

with as bad as the ACC is with rights -- we went from having our games on local over the air stations to RSNs -- I don't think we're going to all of the sudden pivot to a big tech app. maybe some random one like Fubo or Roku.

With our luck, the ACC will end up on FloSports with the CAA.

 

[BarcaDeac]

With our luck, the ACC will end up on FloSports with the CAA.

I don't even know what that is, so sounds right

 

[Wakelaw2006]

I would guess streaming services. Prime, YTTV etc.

I would guess ESPN buying the remaining ACC rights is more likely than a streaming service buying that small slice and bottom tier of ACC rights. But who the hell knows.

 

[Deacfreak07]

I would guess ESPN buying the remaining ACC rights is more likely than a streaming service buying that small slice and bottom tier of ACC rights. But who the hell knows.

Putting them on the Wake Forest Network aka ESPN+

 

[uncaboref]

there's always your local CW or MY24 or whatever

I'd prefer that an exciting ending to an ACC Football or Basketball game not be pre-empted by the CW cutting to an episode of "When Animals Attack", but I guess beggars can't be choosers....

 

[PhDeac]

There’s some talk about local CW and MyNetwork TV stations taking on the local NBA and MLB broadcasts in some markets. ACC football games aired on our local CW station a few years ago.

 

[BarcaDeac]

There’s some talk about local CW and MyNetwork TV stations taking on the local NBA and MLB broadcasts in some markets. ACC football games aired on our local CW station a few years ago.

If that was the case would streaming options be limited to those with YTTV and the like, or would it fall under ACC Network Extra?

 

[PhDeac]

If that was the case would streaming options be limited to those with YTTV and the like, or would it fall under ACC Network Extra?

Those are over the air networks. It would be like local Raycom games that were also on Watch ESPN for people out of market so yeah, ACCNX.

 

[Kory]

ESPN 8

 

[DeacsATS]

What sucks is that the Braves are likely the most profitable deal for Diamond, so they'll continue to make payments there and cash some sweet checks (while I still can't watch a game on YTTV).

 

[deacdixieboy]

I honestly think this is a good thing. It’s hopefully product that can be sold at a higher rate.
As Raycom still technically owns the rights, I assume there is some contract language about how it has to be broadcast.

 

[deacdixieboy]

What sucks is that the Braves are likely the most profitable deal for Diamond, so they'll continue to make payments there and cash some sweet checks (while I still can't watch a game on YTTV).

I got rid of YTTV solely because they didn’t have Bally. It’s a blessing in disguise that the Triangle is not Braves’ territory so MLBTV works.

 

[Buttermaker]

What are other potential broadcast partners?

MY 48?

 

[deacdixieboy]

What are other potential broadcast partners?

My guess on this is that they probably just end up on ACCNX. The other possibility is that they add an ACCN2. I have no idea about the feasibility of that but it would certainly be nice if we could get more live sports on tv.