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Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

Raycom ACC footballl ads in 2004: K&G, TUFFSHED. Raycom ACC football ads in 2024: dick pills

November 23, 2024 at 5:31 PM

PodKATT

@podkatt.bsky.social

That Raycom truck is never going to die

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Dec 27

I haven't seen any sign of it yet this season but it sure appears that the substandard production truck/path that enraged so many people years ago is being used for the Military Bowl. (Pinstripe Bowl provided for reference)

military bowl looks like shit, pinstripe bowl looks fine, both are happening at the same time

December 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM

PITT BASKETBALL SHOUTING

@shouting.bsky.social

SPIRIT WHAT DO THESE VISIONS MEAN

December 27, 2025 at 2:20 PM

PITT BASKETBALL SHOUTING

@shouting.bsky.social

THIS IS A RAYCOM QUALITY BROADCAST

obnoxiously pitt girl @opg.bsky.social · 20d

literally just yelling “shut up” at my tv because these commentators suck so much

September 5, 2026 at 6:53 PM

Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

oh yeah, the ACC Network deal that cut Raycom out of its own OTA network broadcast was awful, Raycom understood the event in a way ESPN never could or never will

Josh Campbell @campbelljd.bsky.social · Mar 15

And its way worse for someone like me who grew up watching the ACC Tournament done through Raycom. Plus Duke-Carolina only had 1 ESPN game every other year because you got:
1st matchup weeknight Raycom with rotating PXP & Billy Packer
2nd matchup (Chapel Hill) CBS on Sunday Afternoon

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Mar 15

really is amazing how much more Fox spends on its production of the Big East Championship than ESPN does for any of the others. it's like for championships it's

ESPN: These are just regular college basketball games
CBS: We will celebrate these championships
Fox: THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE SUPER BOWL

March 15, 2026 at 6:45 PM

Nick Simon

@nicksimon.bsky.social

Raycom Sports coded game that somehow made it on big ESPN. Hell yeah.

September 24, 2026 at 2:26 AM

CJ Fogler

@cjzero.bsky.social

RAYCOM

January 11, 2024 at 3:36 AM

PodKATT

@podkatt.bsky.social

The days of scrambling to find the NewsNation channel when an ACC Raycom game runs over time are finally over. ( @sickoscommittee.org )

No but for real this is great.

Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · Apr 29

ESPN brings The CW live sports to app under new streaming partnership

If ESPN ultimately wants to become a centralized hub for all live sports, regardless of network affiliation, it will attempt to strike more deals like this one. On Wednesday, ESPN announced a partnership with The CW to bring all of The CW’s live sports to the ESPN app as part of an ESPN Unlimited subscription.…

dlvr.it

April 29, 2026 at 1:26 PM

Joe

@joespreadsheet.bsky.social

They have two. This is probably their secondary mobile unit.

Sister company produces it for Raycom, but it’s a Raycom truck.

December 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM

Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

Welcome to your 42nd consecutive season of college football produced by Raycom aka Lincoln Financial aka Jefferson Pilot sports. .

PORTLAND STATE VS WASHINGTON STATE ON THE CW

August 31, 2024 at 7:12 PM

Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

It's the most Jefferson Pilot-Lincoln Financial matchup imaginable, and so it's fitting it is being produced today by Raycom Sports.

Ole Miss vs Wake Forest in front of a half empty stadium

September 14, 2024 at 10:37 PM

Josh Campbell

@campbelljd.bsky.social

Look at that beautiful Raycom bug

Luke DeCock @lukedecock.bsky.social · Jan 3

Austin.

January 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM

Hoover Street Rag

@hooverstreetrag.org

This game should be on Raycom with Wayne Larivee!

October 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM

Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

no it didn't, that was a Raycom game

November 23, 2024 at 3:47 AM

Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

ESPN 🤝 RAYCOM

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Cable TV service wants piece of ACC action

The Atlantic Coast Conference faces a sticky problem over television rights to its basketball games.

The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, a national cable service, wants ACC basketball as part of its sports package with the NCAA. But primary rights to ACC games belong to C.D. Chesley Co., which is reluctant to loosen the powerful grip it has on ACC events.

A dent in the Chesley armor has already been made by Rick Ray, a Charlotte advertising executive who has contracted to televise five North Carolina games plus Duke's Iron Duke Classic this season. Chesley did not exercise its option to pick up those games.

Now ESPN wants in on the ACC action. The cable service would give the conference more national exposure, something every basketball coach wants. ESPN, which can be received in several North Carolina cities, hopes to televise 130 college basketball games this season, some live and some delayed.

"It would be icing on the cake if we could get some ACC games," said Jim Shaffer, assistant director for NCAA productions, which coordinates ESPN's college basketball package.

The Chesley network will televise 35 regular-season games and the ACC tournament this year. If ESPN wants to carry any of those games, it will have to negotiate with Chesley. But Chesley doesn't intend to relinquish its rights until the last possible moment. There is no assurance that ESPN would even want to air those games.

"They're not going to get something for nothing," Chesley said of ESPN in a telephone interview from Louisville. "If I'm paying rights fees, they've got to pay something and pay a decent price for them and run them live on Sunday."

Chesley virtually rules out the possibility of ESPN televising ACC games live, as it would like to do. ESPN telecasts would be made when the conference might be competing directly with the cable network.

For its part, the ACC is definitely interested in national cable telecasts, says Commissioner Robert C. James. "The people who evaluate all types of telecasts believe cable TV is going to have a tremendous impact on television in the future," he said. "We're going to devote a lot of time and attention to following the growth of cable television."

But he thinks the conference would benefit most from delayed telecasts that avoid competition with games in other areas. "People in the Big 10 area aren't going to turn to ESPN to watch our game if a Big 10 game is on at the same time," he said.

ESPN has already agreed to televise two UNC games that will be originated by Raycom, two new Charlotte companies. Raycom has acquired rights to nine games that Chesley did not have. They are UNC's games with Cincinnati (Dec. 8), Detroit (Dec. 15), Wake Forest (Jan. 9), Georgia Tech (Jan. 14) and Maryland (Feb. 7), plus the Iron Duke Classic (Dec. 28-29).

ESPN will televise Carolina's games with Wake Forest and Detroit. Total Communications Systems, another cable service, will carry the other three UNC games. Raycom will televise its games on eight stations in addition to the cable services. Five of the stations are in North Carolina, including Channel 11 in Durham, Channel 9 in Greenville and Channel 6 in Wilmington.

Raycom owner Rick Ray, former program director at WRAL-TV in Raleigh, said it would cost him about $250,000 to televise the games. The cost will be picked up by the cable services.

Carolina agreed to the telecasts mainly because of the national exposure it would get on the cable networks, said Robert Savod, UNC assistant athletic director for promotions.

"I think it's in our best interests to get as much national exposure as possible, particularly as it benefits recruiting," Savod said. "I'd like to see the conference devote more of its efforts to national television and pay more attention to the emergence of cable as a major media force."

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ACC ventures into pay television

By BILL HASS and
LARRY KEECH
Staff Sports Writers

The entry of Atlantic Coast Conference basketball into the subscription cable television market was announced this morning at the Holiday Inn Four Seasons.

The ACC has contracted with Charlotte-based Raycom/Jefferson-Pilot Teleproductions and the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) to televise 20 games involving ACC teams in 1983-84.

The package, known as Season Ticket, will be offered to cable systems throughout the ACC area. It will be done through the ESPN network and will not necessitate addressable converter boxes. Non-subscribers to Season Ticket will have ESPN blacked out during the telecast of an ACC game.

The slate of games will be completely different from the commercial TV package. The ACC is entering the second year of a three-year, $18 million contract with Raycom/Jefferson for the commercial TV package. There will also be games televised on NBC and CBS.

Rick Ray, president of Raycom, said the price of the cable package will be determined by the individual cable systems.

“We anticipate the average price per game will be less than the average movie ticket,” he said. “The whole package should be somewhere in the $50-$75 range.”

Ray said that he could not project, at this time, how many subscribers might be interested in the service, nor exactly how many would be needed to break even.

“We anticipate a break-even venture in the first year,” he said, “and perhaps even create a small profit.”

The ACC will be paid a flat rate rights fee, with provisions for a percentage of Raycom’s revenue reaches a certain level.

“This should not be equated to anything like the over-the-air rights fee,” ACC Commissioner Bob James said. “It’s not quite in the area of public service, but it won’t be a lucrative business, either.”

The Season Ticket schedule, which includes two free games that ESPN will show for promotional purposes, is:

* Saturday, Nov. 26 – Vanderbilt at Duke, 7 p.m.; Missouri at UNC, 9 p.m.
* Wednesday, Dec. 21 – Dartmouth at UNC, 7 p.m.
* Wednesday, Jan. 4 – Virginia at Virginia Tech, 7 p.m.
* Wednesday, Jan. 11 – N.C. State at Virginia, 7 p.m.
* Thursday, Jan. 12 – UNC at Maryland, 8 p.m.
* Tuesday, Jan. 17 – Wake Forest, 7 p.m.
* Saturday, Jan. 21 – UNC at Duke, 7 p.m.
* Wednesday, Jan. 26 – Clemson at Georgia Tech, 7 p.m.; N.C. State at Duke, 9 p.m.

* Sunday, Jan. 29 – Missouri at N.C. State, 9 p.m.
* Thursday, Feb. 2 – Georgia Tech at N.C. State, 9 p.m.
* Saturday, Feb. 4 – Maryland at N.C. State, 7 p.m.; Clemson at N.C. State, 9 p.m.
* Wednesday, Feb. 15 – Georgia Tech at Wake Forest, 7 p.m.
* Thursday, Feb. 16 – Clemson at Wake Forest, 7 p.m.
* Saturday, Feb. 18 – South Carolina at Georgia Tech, 1 p.m.
* Wednesday, Feb. 22 – Maryland at Clemson, 1:30 p.m.; N.C. State at Georgia Tech, 7 p.m.; Thursday, Feb. 23 – Georgia Tech at Maryland, 7 p.m.
* Wednesday, Feb. 29 – Wake Forest at Virginia, 7 p.m.
* Special free basketball doubleheader which will be used by ESPN as a consumer promotion.
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Matt Engel
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HOOPS: The Great Eight, a two-day college basketball regular-season festival, featuring the nation’s best teams, was announced Wednesday by ESPN and Raycom, Inc.
The multi-year agreement calls for ESPN and Raycom to create and administer the event, to be televised live exclusively by ESPN.
The ESPN/Raycom partnership will extend annual invitations to the final eight teams in the NCAA Tournament from the previous season.
The Great Eight is Tuesday, Nov. 29 and Wednesday, Nov. 30 at a site to be determined at 7 and 9 p.m.
If a team which finishes in the top eight is unable to participate, then the highest-ranked squad eliminated prior to the round of eight will be invited.
Pairings for the event will be determined by random selection, however, teams will not be required to play opponents already on their schedule. Each of the eight squads will play a single game.

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Raycom readies for new role

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Don’t worry about Raycom, not even one bit — things will be just fine.

Ownership of two high-end production trucks, along with its long-time relationship with the league and ESPN, made it the perfect partner to continue working behind the scenes on broadcasts when the ACC Network launches on Aug. 22.

“We got a very, very good — lucrative — production contract from ESPN,” Raycom CEO Jimmy Rayburn said. “A lot of the games next year will still be produced from top to bottom, but they just won’t have the Raycom name on it.

“Our bread and butter will still be the ACC, just in a different form.”

The comfort of having a familiar partner is just one of the many reasons for the optimism surrounding the network, finally putting it on par with peers like the Big Ten and SEC, which launched dedicated channels years ago.

ACC commissioner John Swofford says the league is ahead of schedule in ensuring that the ACC Network will be available on cable, satellite and streaming services when it’s launched, pointing out the power Disney — parent company of ESPN — has in negotiating deals.

“The early distribution negotiation and deals have gone very, very well and that’s extremely encouraging,” he said. “We’re to the point now where we’re having more and more serious conversations about things like programming and talent and content and scheduling, and that’s fun.”

— Greensboro News & Record

April 29, 2026 at 5:55 PM

PodKATT

@podkatt.bsky.social

RAYCOM LIVES!

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · Jan 11

RAYCOM

January 11, 2024 at 3:56 AM

Larry in Bath

@larryinbath.bsky.social

Jefferson Pilot! This was like some mythical network to a 12-year-old college football nerd. Just needed JP, Raycom, and Mizlou to see everything.

September 24, 2026 at 12:41 PM

still a pistachio

@streetlightlily.horntforgood.com

Our claims training videos haven’t all been updated and they are truly Raycom quality

February 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM

PodKATT

@podkatt.bsky.social

Cal-Stanford will air on the CW as a Raycom game, just as we all predicted.

September 1, 2023 at 12:50 PM

Pregame Empire

@pregameempire.bsky.social

Raycom BACK

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · Nov 3

yeah we got Raycom Sports colorbars instead of Woj [NOT] being ejected (which i guess is a good prompt to everyone sharing into my timeline that the thing you're sharing is a hoax)

November 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM

Timothy Burke

@bubbaprog.xyz

yeah we got Raycom Sports colorbars instead of Woj [NOT] being ejected (which i guess is a good prompt to everyone sharing into my timeline that the thing you're sharing is a hoax)