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

• Adam Rittenberg, ESPN

  • Senior WriterJul 13, 2023, 05:32 PM ET Close College football reporter.
  • Joined ESPN.com in 2008.
  • Graduate of Northwestern University.This fall, the ACC

will begin airing football and basketball occasions on the CW Network, a brand-new addition to the league’s Saturday broadcast schedule.The CW has actually secured the rights to 50 ACC games, starting Sept. 9 with Pitt’s football game versus Cincinnati. Thirteen ACC football games will air Saturdays on the CW, which will broadcast 28 ACC guys’s and women’s basketball games throughout December, January and February. The ACC will have males’s basketball doubleheaders on the CW every Saturday, and ladies’s basketball doubleheaders on Sunday afternoons.Editor’s Picks Raycom Sports, which sublicences ACC occasions from ESPN, offered its rights to the CW but will continue producing them. The CW has actually not aired college sports occasions but is the special home for LIV Golf. The network is best known for broadcast series, including “All-American,”which focuses on college football players in the Los Angeles area.”We are enjoyed be adding The CW to our weekly television lineup for ACC football and basketball games,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips stated in a statement.

“The CW’s nationwide distribution will straight benefit our student-athletes, groups, alumni and fans. We value ESPN and Raycom collaborating and look forward to the collaboration with The CW.” The ACC in July 2016 accepted a 20-year media rights arrangement with ESPN that goes through the 2035-36 academic year. Some league members have actually expressed disappointment with the long-term arrangement, as the ACC considerably tracks the SEC and Big Ten in revenue. Phillips has actually vowed to be innovative in looking for options to produce greater profits.