The CW Network to Air Games Every Saturday Throughout the Season
 
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July 13, 2023 (Burbank, CA) – The CW Network introduced it has secured unique broadcast rights to 50 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) school soccer and basketball video games every season by 2026-27. The first ACC soccer recreation will air on The CW on Saturday, September 9 with a matchup between the Pitt Panthers and non-conference opponent Cincinnati Bearcats, with video games airing each Saturday all through the season within the afternoon and in primetime. In addition to 13 soccer video games, The CW will broadcast 28 males’s basketball video games and 9 ladies’s basketball video games. These video games shall be featured in December, January and February with males’s basketball doubleheaders going down each Saturday afternoon and ladies’s basketball video games on Sunday afternoons. Raycom Sports will produce all video games for The CW.
 
“We are thrilled to be adding The CW to our weekly television lineup for ACC football and basketball games,” stated ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, Ph.D. “The CW’s national distribution will directly benefit our student-athletes, teams, alumni and fans. We appreciate ESPN and Raycom working together and look forward to the partnership with The CW.”
 
“We are committed to making The CW a destination for live, appointment-viewing sporting events,” stated Dennis Miller, President, The CW Network. “The ACC is home to some of the most decorated college football and basketball teams in the country and we look forward to welcoming these avid sports fans to the network as we continue to broaden our audience.”
 
“The CW is going to be a terrific partner for the legendary ACC,” stated Hunter Nickell, CEO of Raycom Sports. “The longest-running television relationship in college sports belongs to the ACC and Raycom Sports. Now The CW brings national broadcast network coverage to the great fans of these 15 famous schools.”
 
The ACC and its 15 member establishments have loved unimaginable success together with:
 

• No different convention has received extra NCAA nationwide championships within the final two years than the ACC. The league has received 16 nationwide titles within the final two educational years, together with a league-record 9 in 2022-23.
• The ACC has received seven nationwide championships in soccer, males’s basketball, ladies’s basketball and baseball since 2015. The ACC is the one convention to win every of these 4 titles over that stretch.
• The ACC has had a crew in both the College Football Playoff or the BCS National Championship Game in eight of the final 10 years, together with two groups in 2020. The ACC has positioned the second-most groups within the CFP since its inception.
• The ACC positioned 9 groups in soccer postseason video games in 2021. That marked the twenty second consecutive season wherein the ACC earned not less than six bowl bids. Not together with the pandemic-affected 2020 season, the ACC has despatched not less than 9 groups to a bowl yearly since 2016. Since 2013, the ACC is second amongst all conferences with 100 postseason appearances.
• ACC males’s basketball groups have mixed to win three of the final eight NCAA National Championships and eight of the final 22 NCAA Titles, and each are essentially the most of any league. ACC groups have mixed for essentially the most NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament wins in historical past and 5 totally different packages have superior to the Final Four since 2015, essentially the most of any league. Over the final two seasons, the ACC holds a 21-10 report, the very best of any main convention.
• ACC ladies’s basketball packages have made 23 journeys to the Final Four, which incorporates 9 totally different establishments and has had 5 Final Four appearances within the final 5 years. The ACC has 21-straight Elite Eight appearances and essentially the most NCAA Tournament wins since 2014. The league’s eight bids in 2023 had been essentially the most of any convention.

The CW acquired the rights to those stay ACC soccer and basketball video games from Raycom Sports who sublicenses the rights from ESPN.

About The CW Network

The CW Network, LLC is one among America’s main broadcast networks and reaches 100% of US tv households. The CW delivers 14 hours of primetime programming per week along with sports activities and different leisure programming and is the unique broadcast dwelling to LIV Golf. The totally ad-supported CW App, with greater than 96 million downloads up to now, is out there at no cost to customers on all main platforms and is dwelling to the newest episodes and seasons of The CW’s primetime programming, stay streaming of its sports activities content material, and a library of entertaining movie and tv content material for on-demand viewing. The CW is 75%-owned by Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:  NXST), a number one diversified media firm and largest CW affiliate group with 37 CW and CW Plus associates, masking 32% of the inhabitants. For extra details about The CW, please go to www.cwtv.com.   

 

About the ACC

The Atlantic Coast Conference, now in its 71st 12 months of competitors and 15 members sturdy, has lengthy loved the popularity as one of many strongest and best intercollegiate conferences within the nation. ACC members Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Louisville, Miami, North Carolina, NC State, Notre Dame, Pitt, Syracuse, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest proceed to construct upon the cornerstones on which the league was based in 1953 with a constant stability of teachers, athletics and integrity. The ACC presently sponsors 28 NCAA sports activities – 15 for ladies and 13 for males – with member establishments positioned in 10 states. In August 2019, ESPN and the ACC partnered to launch ACC Network (ACCN), a 24/7 nationwide community devoted to ACC sports activities and league-wide authentic programming. For extra info, go to theACC.com and observe @accsports on Instagram and @theACC on Twitter and on Facebook (fb.com/theACC).

 

About Raycom Sports

Raycom Sports, based mostly in Charlotte, N.C., is a nationwide chief in video content material manufacturing, distribution, gross sales and advertising and occasion administration with over 40 years of expertise and a popularity as a trusted companion. Founded in 1979, the corporate has produced hundreds of stay occasions from the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), the Southeastern Conference (SEC) and different high collegiate athletic conferences. In addition, Raycom Sports has produced pre-season video games and specials for a number of NFL groups, highlighted by the corporate’s relationship with the Carolina Panthers. Raycom Sports is a founding companion of Family Entertainment Live, the household leisure firm that owns Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live tour, the Magic of Lights vacation lights sights and the soon-to-launch Monster High Live tour. The Raycom Sports digital media crew builds and manages the ACC official digital platforms and has launched two 24/7 FAST channel manufacturers; the ACC Digital Network and Origin Sports.

Raycom Sports is owned by Gray Media Group, which is the most important proprietor of top-rated native tv stations and digital property within the United States. Gray serves 113 tv markets that collectively attain 36 p.c of US tv households.