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Raycom Sports was started in July 1979 by Rick and Dee Ray in Charlotte. [1] [2] Rick Ray was a program manager at WCCB in Charlotte [3] when he proposed that WCCB, which had become an independent station a year earlier after losing its ABC affiliation, produce more basketball games.
That network began broadcasting regular season ACC games the following season. From that point on, ACC basketball gained large popularity. Chesley's network continued until Metrosports took it over in 1981, handing it to Raycom Sports took it over in 1982; it was the direct ancestor of today's ACC Network.
ACC men's basketball had been broadcast by Raycom/JP Sports, a joint venture of Raycom Sports and Jefferson-Pilot Teleproductions, since the 1982–83 basketball season. . The roots of the current package date to 1957, when Greensboro businessman C.D. Chesley hastily assembled a five-station network to broadcast North Carolina's appearance in that year's Final Fou
The 1987 Big Eight men's basketball tournament was held March 6–8 at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. [1] Top-seeded Missouri defeated #2 seed Kansas in the championship game, 67–65, to earn the conference's automatic bid to the 1987 NCAA tournament .
The 1985 Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball tournament was held in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Omni Coliseum from March 8 to 10. Georgia Tech defeated North Carolina , 57–54, to win the championship, the first for the Yellow Jackets.
The following is a list of affiliates with the former ACC Network, an ad hoc syndicated sports network operated by Raycom Sports and featuring the athletic teams of the Atlantic Coast Conference. This network is not to be confused with the ACC Network linear channel (announced on July 21, 2016 by the league and ESPN) which launched in 2019. [1]
The 1986 Metro Conference men's basketball tournament was held March 6–8 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. [ 1 ] Louisville defeated Memphis State in the championship game, 88–79, to win their fifth Metro men's basketball tournament.
The practice of distributing ACC sports to regional sports networks started in 2011 after the signing of a new 12-year agreement between the ACC, ESPN and Raycom Sports. The agreement gave Raycom Sports the ability to syndicate a select number of football, basketball and Olympic sports on regional sports networks. [3]