Wednesday, September 10, 2014

What is RSN for the ACC games?

On the TV schedules for ACC football teams, there is often a network called "RSN".  What is RSN?

RSN stands for Regional Sports Network.  Basically, ESPN has sublicensed one or two ACC games a week to the regional Fox Sports to produce.  The games are then broadcast on regional sports channels across the country.  Most of them are Fox Sports Net channels, but there are a few areas that Fox Sports Net doesn't cover, so the games are picked up by other regional channels, like Comcast SportsNet.

Most of these games air at 3 PM, but sometimes they air at noon.  Occasionally, the RSN game will be the alternate ACC Network game.  Meaning, if two games are listed at the same time on the ACC Network, one will be on the local affiliates, and the other will be on RSN.

I found this list on the ACC website.  It was primarily from the Kansas at Duke game from September 2014, but can probably be applied to most weeks.

  • FOX Sports Carolinas (FS Carolinas) - covers the states of North Carolina and South Carolina.
  • FOX Sports South (FS South) - covers six states in the southeastern portion of the country: Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky.
  • SUN Sports (SUN) or FOX Sports Florida (FS Florida) - both cover the state of Florida.
  • Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (CSN Mid-Atlantic) - covers the states of Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, and parts of Delaware, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
  • New England Sports Network (NESN) - covers the New England states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
  • Package can also air on regional sports networks outside the ACC footprint. This carriage will vary on a week to week basis.

    Games are also available online at ESPN3, but subject to blackout.

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