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ACC NETWORK TO BE BASED IN BRISTOL CONNECTICUT

Feb 4, 2003
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Charlotte Observer:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/article174017706.html
"ESPN will house the ACC Network in a 194,000 square-foot studio in Bristol that also houses “SportsCenter” and ESPN’s NFL studio programming, Brooks said. The SEC Network, essentially an extension of ESPN’s existing SEC programming, is the model for the ACC Network. Senior leadership overseeing the network will be in Charlotte, and studio operations will be in Bristol.



“As it was evaluated it became clear that a studio in Bristol supplemented by Charlotte would be the best decision,” Brooks said.

Brooks said the job count for the network hasn’t been finalized, but that there will be staff between both locations.

“It’s not a snub to Charlotte at all. It’s a dual presence opportunity and it makes the most sense for the ACC network,” Brooks said.

Establishing the ACC Network comes as viewers are increasingly cutting their cable cords: ESPN lost an estimated 7 million subscribers in less than three years as consumers move away from traditional cable and satellite bundles. ESPN cut about 100 jobs company-wide earlier this spring, including several in Charlotte as the company relocated its ESPNU operations to Bristol."
 
U of L is investing close to ten million dollars in studio-related facilities in Louisville for the ACC Network. (LINK) I'm not sure what details, if any, have been decided.

Will other ACC schools be making similar investments to achieve a more distributed content production capability for the network? If so, that sounds radically different from the SEC Network...
 
U of L is investing close to ten million dollars in studio-related facilities in Louisville for the ACC Network. (LINK) I'm not sure what details, if any, have been decided.

Will other ACC schools be making similar investments to achieve a more distributed content production capability for the network? If so, that sounds radically different from the SEC Network...

Yes, the other ACC schools are building facilities for the network. That's not different from the SEC network though. All the SEC schools had to build their own facilities as well. (South Carolina in particular spent several million on facilities.) With the SEC network, the individual schools produce much of the content for non-revenue sports, which is what the ACC will be doing.
 
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