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Comcast/ACC Network update from Jim Phillips

DamonDillman

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At ACC Basketball Tipoff today in Charlotte, commissioner Jim Phillips was asked about the ongoing negotiations with Comcast regarding the ACC Network. His answer:

Been one of the top priorities just coming in nine months ago or however long ago it's been to try to get distribution. I heard it loud and clear when I went on those 15-campus visits. We have this tremendous network. It's still in its infancy stage, a couple years old, but the distribution piece has been really important. We have locked arms with Disney and ESPN and the network and the conference in order to push forward. We've had some great wins this summer with MediaCom and NCTC, which provided some new distributors to carry the ACC Network.

Then recently we were able to renew our deal with Altice. So we're down to Comcast and I am really optimistic about where that's going, but nothing of substance today. I just know we're getting really close. But it's got to be something that Comcast feels good about and our group feels good about, but really positive about.

I would just say this: I had a chance recently to visit with Jimmy Pitaro and Burke Magnus, and they've been incredible from a Disney and ESPN standpoint. Again, I'm really optimistic that we'll get to the right place.

Later he was asked again what's taking so long to get a deal done with Comcast:
It's a fair question. What I would say is we have made progress. We're in 7 million new homes now with Altice, MediaCom, and NCTC. These deals are never that easy. They're just not.

Comcast knows the importance of the ACC Network moving forward to Disney and to ESPN, and we also understand Comcast has some things that they're trying to work through. But it's very amicable and we are farther along than we were in July, so there has been progress.

Again, optimistic about getting this thing done.
 
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