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Message: [QUOTE="sufan, post: 309292, member: 262"] [URL='http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/blog/dennis-dodd/19487510/bidding-now-open-on-playoff-after-accorange-announcement']"Bidding now open on playoff after ACC/Orange announcement"[/URL] by Dennis Dodd "In tying up with the Orange, the ACC revealed it controls the broadcast rights in the new agreement and will take that partnership to market. That's a potential game changer in the way business was done compared to the BCS era." "The ACC's move then signals a possible feeding frenzy among rightsholders. In other words, it isn't necessarily ESPN's world anymore. The Rose (re-upped with ESPN), Champions and Orange bowls all could end up on different networks. The so-called “host” bowls (Sugar, Fiesta, Atlanta) and championship game will be bundled as one entity." "While I wrote Tuesday that the playoff could be worth [URL='http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/19482340/college-footballs-playoff-will-be-huge-and-everyone-wants-a-piece-of-it'][COLOR=#0066cc][U]$6 billion[/U][/COLOR][/URL]after the lifetime of the deal, that was assuming there was one rightsholder. Tuesday's announcement could be a game changer." “ESPN doesn't like it when I say it but they're a mature network,” Pilson said. “There isn't much upside. They can't get any more money per subscriber. They don't need any more distribution. They're in 100 percent of the homes. But a channel like NBC Sports Network is in only 75 percent of American homes. If you can get programming that helps drive your distribution up by 20 million homes … this property will let you do that.” ESPN remains the gold standard. No other network can promise the Football Four (or whatever it is going to be called), the broad platform coverage and 24/7/365 promotion of the World Wide Leader. Using that argument, though, ESPN would have won the NCAA Tournament away from CBS and Turner. It didn't." [/QUOTE]

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