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ACC, ESPN Sign 12-Year Mega-Deal

Sports Video Group, Sunday, July 11, 2010 10:54 PM

The Atlantic Coast Conference and ESPN have announced a 12-year multimedia-rights agreement, beginning in 2011-12, that gives ESPN full rights to all of the conference's content, without a separate broadcast component. It also doubles the television revenue that each member school will receive.

The deal covers the rights to every conference-controlled football and men's basketball game, as well as the lower-profile competitions in women's basketball and Olympic sports over 12 years. That amounts to nearly 5,000 ACC events on ESPN's television, digital, and mobile platforms, including syndication, over the life of the contract. The agreement also includes a sublicense arrangement with Raycom Sports, which continues to be the syndication home of ACC content.

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