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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1692019, member: 27"]
Good discussion.  I agree with you that fans of teams will pay to get access to live broadcasts of their teams.  Live sports was been the backbone cable tv was built around.  This was because that content is really valuable.

I think Raycom's future role will be to help provide announcers, directors, cameras, etc. on site at various ACC venues to help provide content when ESPN is unwilling because the national audience is too small to make an ESPN production worthwhile.  Their role in the distribution of the content will, I think, become dramatically less important as the 'third tier' level content moves from cable to the Internet.  Heck, a bunch of it is already found on cable on ESPN3.

I hope and expect that media rights continue to be sold at the conference level, not with individual schools.  I think in the long run, that model makes more money for the schools and it certainly makes it easier for the customers to sort out what they need to watch their team(s) play.
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