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There are seven more years on the Fox Sports Net purchased games.


Raycom contracted with ESPN for an allotment of games 31 football and 61 men's basketball games through 2027, and then Raycom sold 17 football and 25 men's basketball games a year of them to Fox Sports back in 2012. It is a 15 year contract.

ESPN bought the games Raycom didn't sell to Fox back to form the ACC Network, but Fox still has the rights to theirs through 2027. That's what you're seeing on the RSN games. ESPN will show them on ACCNX, but not while they are live in the footprint. The Fox Sports Nets produce those games. I would guess this won't be renewed, but if Disney wasn't forced to sell the Fox Sports Nets when they bought all that stuff from Fox, they may have continued.

John Ourand of Sports Business Daily reported on this back when he was reporting doom and gloom about the ACC getting the ACC Network.

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Posted: 10/26/2020 at 1:22PM



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