Two Carolina football games are on ESPN; what about Miami?
So Mack Brown’s Tar Heels now know they will open the season at 3:30 on Saturday, August 31, against favored South Carolina in Charlotte on ESPN. Their third game and first true road test is Friday night, September 13 at Wake Forest, also on ESPN. But their home opener in Brown’s return to Kenan Stadium against Miami on September 7 at 8 pm is, well, still not scheduled for my TV and probably yours.
That’s because it is on the new ACC Network, which is apparently ready to roll but not to be seen. I went back to GetACCN.com and put in my zip code, just as I did a few weeks ago, when the questioning got louder about exactly what will this new conference network do. The site said that in Chapel Hill, the Miami game will be available on DIRECTV streaming, Hulu and Vue, two other streaming systems.
Frankly, I am not sure whether you can get the game if you have the original DIRECTV with a satellite dish. But if you live somewhere they don’t allow satellite dishes, like me, I guess you have to subscribe to DIRECTV streaming and pay extra for that. Just like you might to activate Hulu and the Vue on your devices.
The almost humorous part of the GetACCN.com site is this sentence: If your TV provider isn’t listed, contact them today to DEMAND ACCN be added to your channel lineup. Just demand it, and ESPN will suddenly have the game on one of its channels on my cable box? That, apparently, depends on more than our calls.
Why ESPN hasn’t given the ACC its own dedicated channel by now is the question, and the answer must be because someone has to pay for it. The Big Ten Network is carried by all major cable providers. The SEC and Longhorn Networks, which are also owned by ESPN, have their own dedicated channels on every major cable carrier. Why doesn’t the ACC with three months left before the football season?
ACC Commissioner John Swofford needs to explain what is going on with the new network the league has ballyhooed now for three years; how come ESPN isn’t doing for the ACC what it does for the SEC and Texas. And UNC isn’t doing much beyond trying hard to sell tickets to the Miami game and telling fans to also call their cable providers and say they want them to carry the ACC Network.
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