For the past few seasons, the ACC has been watching as other big conferences, especially what is now commonly called the Power Five conferences in football, got their wallets fattened with checks coming in from cable networks created to solely focus on that conference.
While the SEC got their network through a partnership with ESPN (and the Big Ten worked with FOX while the Pac 12 did their own thing), the ACC sat back and seemed to watch the money train speed right past them.
Well, it appears as if the 15 members of the conference (remember, Notre Dame is actually in the league for everything but football) are finally going to get a taste as the league reportedly has worked out a deal with the Worldwide Leader to join the party:
ACC Network will launch by August 2019 & ACC extends conference grant of rights thru 2036, sources told @ESPN
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) July 19, 2016
The deal includes an early start on seeing what the network will be like with a web version starting in weeks:
Source: ESPN to launch a digital-only, “ACC Network Plus” in Aug 2016 and a linear “ACC Network” in Aug 2019.