SyracuseMiami and MaxwellCuse...good posts. I will be back with more information very soon...and this was going to be part of it:
As MawellCuse has posted, this issue may become significant not only for what he has showed but as well as legislation in congress being weighed about cable and ala carte service.
There is a potential way around this and the ACC is looking into it. It would be an ACC network but with local programming insofar as each university/universities are concerned. For example, an advertiser would purchase the ACC network for advertising, but the carriage would be broken by markets...such that Syracuse University would be primary university on in New York and share into the Northeast...like Florida State and Miami in Florida. By making more locally centered, a network segment such as this would potentially find it easier to gain carriage as well as viewers willing to pay...so unlike the B1G providing a primary game that everyone must watch...this type of network would provide games of higher interest to each university fan base...as well as carrying other ACC feeds to fill the content...but Syracuse would not have to worry that their game would not be televised...to a degree this is similar to ESPN3--not quality--but ability to telecast several games at same time frame--and as indicated in previous thread, ESPN is working with the ACC...more later...and what a great Pin Stripe win for 'Cuse and the other wins by its ACC brethern.
