Yup and it would have sold ads to try and recover the costs.I'm sorry but that's not acceptable. We should not be regressing severely in quality just to provide more access. I could've watched this exact same game a decade ago on the ACC Regional Sports Network and it would have been an actual produced television broadcast with announcers instead of the cobbled together mess they just put on ESPN+.
It also might not been on 10 yrs ago. it does blur when games on became more the norm than the exception. In the 80s we started to see more games on for sure but they were not widely shown if you lived outside the local area