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Positive Signs for ACC Network


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When the ACC Network was first announced, some were skeptical - including John Ourand, media reporter for the Sport Business Journal. "I was very bearish on them about a year ago," he admits. "If you had asked me this one year ago, I would have said it's doomed for failure." What changed his mind? "One year on, they have deals with Altice in New York, which is hardly an ACC hotbed. They have a deal with Verizon, which is a national deal... I've now turned 180 degrees on what my prognosis of what the ACC Network was going to be."

It still isn't known how much actual revenue will be generated by the network - a pretty important issue for a league which is currently 5th out of 5 power conferences. However, even there Ourand thinks there might be reasons to expect the ACCN payouts to be closer to the SECN/BTN level than the Pac-12 Network level.

For more on the ACCN, check out SBJ flips from Bear to Bull on ACCN.

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