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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 5137000, member: 27"]
Correct.  ESPN was making money off the ACC before the ACCN was created and it continues to be profitable for them.

But the ACCN makes dumping the ACC unthinkable.  Last I heard, each ACC full time member was making $11 million/year from ACCN.  ND gets a partial share.

And the conference gets a share too.  So the ACC gets in the neighborhood of $170 million per year from ACCN.  Profits are split 50-50 with ESPN so from ACCN alone, ESPN  makes about $170 million per year.

That money is going to drop over the next 12 years as people continue to cut the cord but that is offset in part by the markets ACCN has added to with higher in state carriage fees (California and Texas).  It isn't going to go down a ton.  Confident it will still be over $100 million per year by 2036.

So we are talking about $1.5 billion dollars (conservatively) over the rest of the ACC contract that ESPN is going to make off ACCN alone.

They can't throw that away.  When you compare what the ACC makes for ESPN to what it costs them to get that programming, it has to be one of the most profitable contracts ESPN has.  They will extend the contract and if they have a chance to expand the footprint of the conference during the next 12 years into areas that will increase their profits, they will act to make that happen.

This is why the B12 is in such deep trouble.
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