The ACC Network will broadcast early-round games in the 2023 ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament and the 2023 ACC Baseball Tournament, closing an obvious silly gap in the network’s offerings.
Raycom, which still exists, actually owns the rights to the games at the two events, and had broadcast them through Bally Sports South. Sinclair, which owns Bally Sports South, Raycom and ESPN came to an agreement that will move the broadcast rights over to ACCN.
The early-round games will air there, and then the championships will go to ESPN or ESPN2.
This will be good news for fans, and better news for ACCN, which desperately needs programming, and even though women’s hoops and baseball don’t necessarily move the needle, it’s programming.
It would make similar sense to put, you know, more good programming, in the form of football and men’s basketball games that people actually want to watch, as opposed to just throwing up what otherwise would have ended up on MASN or ESPN3, but still.
I actually watched a few minutes of ACC Network the other night, when the football people were on Grounds to highlight Virginia.
I hadn’t been there since the last “Packer and Durham” a while ago.
Mark Packer’s new ACCN show, “ACC P.M.,” is set to debut next week, on Monday at 4 p.m.
That will be worth tuning into. I hope. (I’ll miss Wes Durham.)
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