The practice of distributing ACC sports telecasts to regional networks began with the original Jefferson-Pilot syndication package for football and Raycom/JP package for basketball in the 1980s. At that time Raycom and JP would distribute ACC telecasts through AT&T network lines to local over the air affiliates. Raycom Sports would continue to distribute ACC telecasts, mostly football and men's basketball under what became the
ACC Network, to over the air affiliates until the
2019 ACC men's basketball tournament, when
ESPN acquired Raycom Sports' previous package of games for its new
ACC Network cable channel. The practice of distributing ACC sports to regional sports networks started in 2011 after the signing of a new 12-year agreement between the ACC,
ESPN and Raycom Sports. The agreement gave Raycom Sports the ability to syndicate a select number of football, basketball and Olympic sports on regional sports networks. As the majority of the ACC's RSN affiliates were part of
Fox Sports Networks, these events were initially billed as
Fox Sports telecasts (with football and basketball using the standard
Fox College Football and
Fox College Hoops branding respectively). With the acquisition of FSN by
Sinclair Broadcast Group and their rebranding in late-March 2021, the telecasts transitioned to using Bally Sports' on-air presentation. In August 2022, Bally and Raycom agreed to move 11 women’s basketball tournament early-round games and 12 baseball tournament early-round games, which previously aired as part of the package, to the
ACC Network. In June 2023, as part of the
bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group, Bally dropped the ACC RSN package. A month later, Raycom announced an agreement with
The CW to carry a sub-license package of ACC telecasts produced by Raycom, which will include 13 football games, 28 men's basketball games, and 9 women's basketball games per-season. The broadcasts were initially branded as the
ACC on The CW. Beginning in the 2024 football season, the Raycom-produced football games became part of the new
CW Football Saturday banner alongside a new
Pac-12 package, with ex-
Pac-12 Network staff producing its studio coverage and conference games. ==Telecasts==