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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.
ESPN also acquired the secondary ACC rights previously sub-licensed to Raycom Sports for its syndicated ACC Network (the company will continue to be involved as a sub-contractee for events that can be carried by the new channel). [1] [14] Mark Packer and Wes Durham host the morning show Packer and Durham, simulcast on ACCN and SiriusXM. [9]
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]
On May 7, 1949, WAVE-TV became the first television station in the United States to present a live telecast of the Kentucky Derby. The station shipped a canned newsreel of the event to NBC to broadcast nationally. The telecast was the first use of a Zoomar Lens in a television sports broadcast. The lens was loaned to WAVE by inventor Frank Back.
Raycom Sports will continue its role as the ACC's in-house digital media partner, and ESPN will subcontract production resources from Raycom Sports for the new channel. [14] Raycom's final syndicated ACC telecast was the 2019 ACC men's basketball tournament final. [15] Raycom Sports continues to produce select ACC games, however instead of ...
Raycom senior vice president and executive producer Rob Reichley worked at Cincinnati’s WLWT-TV, when Brennaman broke into the business with Channel 5 in 1987. Brennaman will call 14 college ...
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]
In 1996, Raycom purchased 15 television and two radio stations and Bert Ellis's Raycom Sports from Ellis Communications for over $700 million. [2] [3] In mid-1996, the company agreed to purchase eight stations from Federal Enterprises Inc. of suburban Detroit for $160 million. [2] Raycom bought Aflac's broadcast division of five TV stations in ...