From Awful Announcing:

Quote:The ACC Network continues to grow its distribution. Following deals with Cox, Dish, Charter and more over the last month, ACC Network is now available on AT&T U-verse and AT&T TV Now (the former DirecTV Now). That comes after AT&T and ACC Network parent company Disney appeared to reach a larger carriage deal earlier this month to avert a potential blackout of various ABC and ESPN networks, although that deal still hasn’t been officially announced.

Quote:Of course, the 56-57 million total doesn’t necessarily mean that ACC Network actually has that many subscribers. We don’t know the details of all the ACC Network deals, but it seems likely that not all of those companies’ subscribers will be on a tier that receives the network. So we can’t quite do an apples-to-apples comparison with the estimates Glenn relayed in July for the SEC Network (59 million) and the Big Ten Network (55 million), as those were estimates of those networks’ actual subscribers rather than just those who had providers that had deals with the networks. But it seems like ACCN may not be all that far behind those networks, and it probably has more than double the estimated 19 million subscribers the Pac-12 Network had then.

Quote:This also speaks to the power that Disney can wield in carriage negotiations, especially when those involve the likes of ESPN. AT&T is a huge market force, especially after their acquisition of Time Warner, and they’ve been playing hardball with everyone recently; this year alone, they’ve had disputes with CBS and Nexstar (resolved), NFL Network and NFL RedZone (not resolved), and Sinclair (not resolved). Based on channel history and prominence alone, plus what games are actually on the channel, you’d think that NFL Network would be a more important channel to carry than a start-up like ACC Network. But the NFL owns NFLN itself, so it doesn’t have the luxury of threatening to withhold a channel AT&T actually wants like ESPN until they take one like ACCN. And that leverage appears to have proven very important for Disney here.

The power of Disney strikes again although it's safe to say the ACCN will not be the financial splash the SECN is.

Comcast is still holding out and they even played hardball with FOX and the BTN recently so I don't think it's a foregone conclusion they will sign up soon. They probably will eventually, but the sub rate probably won't be super high.

All in all, not bad for the ACCN.

(09-25-2019 10:13 PM)AllTideUp Wrote:  From Awful Announcing:

Quote:The ACC Network continues to grow its distribution. Following deals with Cox, Dish, Charter and more over the last month, ACC Network is now available on AT&T U-verse and AT&T TV Now (the former DirecTV Now). That comes after AT&T and ACC Network parent company Disney appeared to reach a larger carriage deal earlier this month to avert a potential blackout of various ABC and ESPN networks, although that deal still hasn’t been officially announced.

Quote:Of course, the 56-57 million total doesn’t necessarily mean that ACC Network actually has that many subscribers. We don’t know the details of all the ACC Network deals, but it seems likely that not all of those companies’ subscribers will be on a tier that receives the network. So we can’t quite do an apples-to-apples comparison with the estimates Glenn relayed in July for the SEC Network (59 million) and the Big Ten Network (55 million), as those were estimates of those networks’ actual subscribers rather than just those who had providers that had deals with the networks. But it seems like ACCN may not be all that far behind those networks, and it probably has more than double the estimated 19 million subscribers the Pac-12 Network had then.

Quote:This also speaks to the power that Disney can wield in carriage negotiations, especially when those involve the likes of ESPN. AT&T is a huge market force, especially after their acquisition of Time Warner, and they’ve been playing hardball with everyone recently; this year alone, they’ve had disputes with CBS and Nexstar (resolved), NFL Network and NFL RedZone (not resolved), and Sinclair (not resolved). Based on channel history and prominence alone, plus what games are actually on the channel, you’d think that NFL Network would be a more important channel to carry than a start-up like ACC Network. But the NFL owns NFLN itself, so it doesn’t have the luxury of threatening to withhold a channel AT&T actually wants like ESPN until they take one like ACCN. And that leverage appears to have proven very important for Disney here.

The power of Disney strikes again although it's safe to say the ACCN will not be the financial splash the SECN is.

Comcast is still holding out and they even played hardball with FOX and the BTN recently so I don't think it's a foregone conclusion they will sign up soon. They probably will eventually, but the sub rate probably won't be super high.

All in all, not bad for the ACCN.

Accn is doing better than I expected. AT&T Now already added the channel.