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Raycom Sports is a Charlotte, North Carolina –based producer of sports television programs owned 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 ...
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. [1]
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
In the spring of 1991, the ACC agreed to a six-year extension with Raycom and Jefferson Pilot worth $80 million. The deal, for the broadcast rights only to ACC men’s basketball games, became the ...
This was Georgia's first SEC men's basketball tournament championship since 1983. Television coverage [ edit ] The first, quarterfinal, and semifinal rounds were televised by Raycom Sports , the successor to Lincoln Financial Sports (formerly Jefferson Pilot Sports), which folded into Raycom at the beginning of the year.
Produced by Raycom Sports in partnership with ESPN, the interview will air on ACC Network following Duke’s game against Louisville (7 p.m.). The show will also be available on the ESPN app and ...
Then-owner Jefferson-Pilot took over coverage of men's basketball from longtime producer C. D. Chesley in 1982 in partnership with Raycom, and became the sole producer of ACC football in 1984. Those rights passed to Lincoln Financial after its merger with Jefferson-Pilot in 2006.
With the bankrupt parent company of Bally Sports walking away from the package of ACC games it bought from Raycom, those games will inevitably end up back in the hands of ESPN and the ACC Network.