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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 3631904, member: 27"]
I hadn’t heard this.  Interesting.  If they actually do this, I think the practice of syndicating college sports to regional sports networks gets turned on its head.  The conferences sold to these regional sports networks thinking they were getting wide distribution of their product over a huge geographic footprint.

I wonder if this change is significant enough to get the ACC out of the RSN contract.  It would be awesome if all that extra content was shown on ESPN channels, including ABC and ACCN, and ACCN Extra.

The two big remaining issues that plague ACC fans trying to watch their teams play are 
1) games farmed out to RSNs fans who signed up for ESPN still can’t receive and

2) Comcast subscribers.

I believe the Comcast problem will be solved when the existing ESPN/Disney contract with Comcast expires at the end of 2021.

The contract with the RSNs doesn’t expire until 2026-27 but maybe this development will kill it earlier.  Any lawyers or media experts willing to weigh in on this?  It should be noted that YES, one of the primary RSNs that covers ACC content, was sold separately from the rest of the Fox RSNs.  It was sold back to the Yankees, with Sinclair and Amazon, among others, also holding major shares,
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