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mrcaniac
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mrcaniac

The CW games would be streaming only if left on Disney

These are the games after ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, and the ACCNetwork have all passed on them. The CW is available in close to 60 million households more than ESPN. It will most definitely help with schools' viewership. ESPN has about 60 million household subscribers with about 20 million ESPN+ subscribers, being generous with over lap, that would give them about 75 million households. The CW is available in about 98% of the US's 130 million TV households. As for streaming the CW games, come this fall the CW will be part of ESPN Unlimited, so now the games will be available online too.
Posted: 05/13/2026 at 05:43 PM ET
(In response to this post by HokieAl)

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ACC and The CW reach sublicense agreement thru 2030-31
Will StewartAdmin • 05/13/26 12:00 PM ET
Nice. That’s 390,000 people glad they’ll get to see Wake take on Cal. **
GreenvilleVT • 05/15/26 01:01 PM ET
Better than not, I guess.**
Baltimore_Hokie • 05/15/26 12:16 PM ET
at least we get more of Thom. I like him lol
VT Pez4Life • 05/14/26 01:39 PM ET
Biscuits and Ball on the CW!!!!
VT ChemE 1986 • 05/13/26 09:51 PM ET
Awful Announcing story**
Vippie1 • 05/13/26 04:40 PM ET
This is terrible
HokieAl • 05/13/26 03:26 PM ET
As soon as the SEC went all in on ABC/ESPN, the ACC slots were going to
reestuart • 05/20/26 09:24 AM ET
FTR, I think the CW coverage has been good. Way better than ACCN.**
reestuart • 05/20/26 09:25 AM ET
I thought CW rating was better than FS1, ESPN2 or TNT for college sports**
RandomAsianGuy • 05/13/26 06:16 PM ET
Data shows the following
HokieAl • 05/13/26 11:22 PM ET
Thanks. Do you have an average for recent years only? CW contract started
RandomAsianGuy • 05/14/26 12:35 PM ET
Sure. I can show by each year, by week, by school, by type of game
HokieAl • 05/14/26 01:35 PM ET
What about the three most recent years 2023-2025?**
RandomAsianGuy • 05/14/26 06:01 PM ET
2023-2025 data with a few different views
HokieAl • 05/14/26 10:05 PM ET
Thanks. Very interesting. ESPN2 has generally better numbers but for some
RandomAsianGuy • 05/15/26 12:24 AM ET
Those CW numbers are a lot better than what they would be on ESPN+
mrcaniac • 05/14/26 12:20 AM ET
This is the correct take. Better to be on the CW than the ACCN.
Baltimore_Hokie • 05/15/26 12:19 PM ET
I concur. ESPN+ is
Big12 guy • 05/15/26 07:54 PM ET
And here is that same data, but also including the main channels
HokieAl • 05/13/26 11:24 PM ET
and ACC specific view
HokieAl • 05/13/26 11:33 PM ET
some of that data confuses me a bit. NBC-SN doesn't even exist anymore
GusDaMan • 05/14/26 11:29 AM ET
They're Notre Dame games, so definite outliers**
BROman Hokie • 05/15/26 12:02 PM ET
This is 11 years worth of data
HokieAl • 05/14/26 11:44 AM ET
The CW games would be streaming only if left on Disney ◄
mrcaniac • 05/13/26 05:43 PM ET
It's only 1 FB game/week, and one BB game per week.
EDGEMAN • 05/13/26 06:17 PM ET
Sounds like a good deal. All ACC games will be on ESPN unlimited. **
RandomAsianGuy • 05/13/26 12:47 PM ET
Does this result in any additional revenue for the ACC?
SMU Pony • 05/13/26 10:28 PM ET
Isn't ESPN our "private equity corporation" in this case?
Truthahn • 05/14/26 01:14 PM ET
Yes, in a way I believe you are correct. However, I believe there may be 1
VTHokie2000 • 05/18/26 12:46 PM ET
I am curious too. **
RandomAsianGuy • 05/13/26 11:10 PM ET