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ACC On Regional Sports Networks
The ACC on Regional Sports Networks (also known as simply ACC RSN) is a package of telecasts produced by Raycom Sports, in cooperation with Bally Sports, featuring Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college sports. The package is syndicated primarily to regional sports networks, with Bally Sports accounting for the majority of their affiliates. Out of market these telecasts air on ACC Network Extra through ESPN3. History The practice of distributing ACC sports telecasts to regional networks began with the original Jefferson-Pilot syndication package for football and Raycom/JP package for basketball in the 1980s. At that time Raycom and JP would distribute ACC telecasts through AT&T network lines to local over the air affiliates. Raycom Sports would continue to distribute ACC telecasts, mostly football and men's basketball under what became the ACC Network title, to over the air affiliates until the 2019 ACC men's basketball tournament, when ESPN acquired Raycom Sports' previous package ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raycom Sports
Raycom Sports is an American producer of sports television programs. It is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and owned and operated by Gray Television. It was founded in 1979 by husband and wife, Rick and Dee Ray. In the 1980s, Raycom Sports established a prominent joint venture with Jefferson-Pilot Communications which made them partners on the main Atlantic Coast Conference basketball package. Raycom was acquired in 1994 by Ellis Communications. Two years later, Ellis was acquired by a group led by Retirement Systems of Alabama, who renamed the entire company Raycom Media to build upon the awareness of Raycom Sports. The company would be acquired by Gray in 2019. The company was well known for its tenure with the ACC, and has also had former relationships with the SEC, Big Eight, and Big Ten conferences, as well as the now-defunct Southwest Conference. In the 2010s, Raycom lost both its ACC and SEC rights to ESPN (a network which had, in its early years, picked up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Basketball
Women's basketball is the team sport of basketball played by women. It began being played in 1892, one year after men's basketball, at Smith College in Massachusetts. It spread across the United States, in large part via women's college competitions, and has since spread globally. As of 2020, basketball is one of the most popular and fastest growing sports in the world. There are multiple professional leagues and tournaments for professional women basketball players. The main North American league is the WNBA. The FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup and Women's Olympic Basketball Tournament feature top national teams from continental championships. In the US, the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship is also popular. The strongest European women's basketball clubs participate in the EuroLeague Women. Early women's basketball Women's basketball began in the fall of 1892 at Smith College. Senda Berenson, recently hired as a young "physical culture" director at Sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bally Sports North
Bally Sports North is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as a Bally Sports affiliate. The channel broadcasts coverage of sporting events involving teams located in the Upper Midwest region, with a focus on professional and collegiate sports teams based in Minnesota. The network maintains production studios and offices located in downtown Minneapolis, which are shared with production and office operations of Bally Sports Wisconsin, which formerly served as a subfeed of Fox Sports North until it was spun off into a separate channel in 2006. Bally Sports North is available on cable providers throughout Minnesota, western Wisconsin, northern Iowa, North Dakota, and South Dakota; it is available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV. History Origins The channel originated sometime in 1982 as WCCO II, a local cable channel owned by Midwest Radio and Television (later Midwest Communications), and created as a project by CBS affiliate WCCO-TV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bally Sports Midwest
Bally Sports Midwest is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts regional event coverage of sports teams throughout the Midwestern United States, most prominently, professional sports teams based in St. Louis, Missouri. Bally Sports Midwest is available on cable providers throughout eastern and central Missouri, Western and Southern Illinois, Nebraska, and Iowa; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV. History The channel originally launched by TCI and Bill Daniels in November 1989 as Prime Sports Network Midwest (also referred to as Prime Sports Midwest), serving as an affiliate of the Prime Network. The network was originally based in Indianapolis and held rights to 25 home games of the Indiana Pacers. Originally seen mainly within Indiana, the channel began expanding its cable provider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bally Sports Great Lakes
Bally Sports Great Lakes is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel, which is a sister network to Bally Sports Ohio, broadcasts statewide coverage of professional, collegiate and high school sports events throughout northern Ohio, including the Cleveland area. Bally Sports Great Lakes is available from most cable providers in Northeast Ohio and select providers in other portions of Ohio (including Columbus), Northwest Pennsylvania, and extreme Western New York. It is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV, as well as outside Ohio on AT&T U-verse. History Bally Sports Great Lakes was launched on March 12, 2006 as SportsTime Ohio; it was founded by the family of Cleveland Indians owner Larry Dolan, becoming the second regional sports network in the Cleveland area, after Fox Sports Ohio (which launched in February 1989 as SportsChannel Ohio). SportsTime Ohio assumed the regional cable tele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bally Sports Florida
Bally Sports Florida is an American regional sports network owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group, and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts local sports coverage in the state of Florida, with a focus on professional sports teams based in Miami, Tampa, Florida, Tampa and Orlando, Florida, Orlando. Bally Sports Florida maintains production facilities and offices located in Fort Lauderdale, alongside sister network Bally Sports Sun. The channel is available on cable television providers throughout Florida, and in parts of southern Alabama and Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia; it is also available nationwide on direct broadcast satellite, satellite via DirecTV. History Bally Sports Florida was launched on December 29, 1987 as SportsChannel Florida. It was originally owned by Rainbow Media (a subsidiary of Cablevision, Cablevision Systems Corporation), and was the fourth regional network of SportsChannel America. The network originally featured coverage of local ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
