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Raycom Sports
Company type
Subsidiary
Industry
Sports Broadcast Television
Production
Sales & Marketing
Syndication
Distribution
Event Management
Founded
June 19, 1979; 44 years ago (1979-06-19)
Founders
Rick and Dee Ray
Headquarters
Charlotte, North Carolina
Area served
United States (Nationwide)
Key people
Hunter Nickell (CEO)[1]
Number of employees
51 (2016[1])
Parent
Gray Television
Website
raycomsports.com
Raycom Sports is a Charlotte, North Carolina–based producer of sports television programs owned by Gray Television.
It was founded in 1979 by husband and wife, Rick and Dee Ray. In the 1980s, Raycom Sports established a prominent joint venture with Jefferson-Pilot Communications which made them partners on the main Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college basketball package. Raycom was acquired in 1994 by Ellis Communications. Two years later, Ellis was acquired by a group led by Retirement Systems of Alabama, who renamed the entire company Raycom Media to build upon the awareness of Raycom Sports. The company would be acquired by Gray in 2019.
Raycom Sports was well known for its tenure with the ACC, and also had former relationships with the SEC, Big Eight, and Big Ten conferences, as well as the now-defunct Southwest Conference.[1] In the 2010s, Raycom lost both its ACC and SEC rights to ESPN (a network which had, in its early years, picked up Raycom-distributed ACC basketball games for national broadcasts), which transferred these rights to in-house cable networks. Raycom Sports continued to produce a package of syndicated ACC telecasts aired by the Bally Sports channels and other regional sports networks, until Bally Sports ended the contract, at which point The CW bought the rights. Via Raycom Sports or related operation Tupelo Raycom, Gray produces NFL preseason games for several teams, including the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints.
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RaycomSports is a Charlotte, North Carolina–based producer of sports television programs owned by Gray Television. It was founded in 1979 by husband...
RaycomSports to distribute a package of Atlantic Coast Conference games, freeing Raycom to sell the package to other networks. A month later, Raycom...
Retirement Systems of Alabama. In 1996, Raycom purchased 15 television and two radio stations and Bert Ellis's RaycomSports from Ellis Communications for over...
Conference (ACC) college athletics broadcast by The CW, and produced by RaycomSports. After Nexstar Media Group acquired a majority stake in The CW, the...
syndicated nationwide by RaycomSports. Dennis Miller hosted in the 12th Sports Emmys in 1991, which was broadcast on ESPN. Among the Sports Emmy rules, a show...
Regional Sports Networks (also known as simply ACC RSN) was a package of telecasts produced by RaycomSports, in cooperation with Bally Sports, previously...
of the National Basketball Association (NBA), and to RaycomSports for its ACC on Regional Sports Networks package and the Orange Bowl for its Orange Bowl...
exist for sporting events, such as RaycomSports and American Sports Network, both of which specialize in college sports. The debut of ESPN in 1979 revolutionized...
LSN's last sports broadcast because Raycom won syndication rights to the Pac-10 starting with the 1986-87 season. As for SEC Basketball, Raycom's Atlantic...
would be produced by RaycomSports division, who previously produced syndicated ACC broadcasts. The package had been with Fox Sports Net before transitioning...
regional sports networks, or a mixture of both. Jefferson-Pilot Communications and RaycomSports were well known as syndicators of college sports on broadcast...
and WCSC-TV in Charleston, South Carolina, and Lincoln Financial Sports, to Raycom Media for $583 million. Lincoln Financial also sold its Charlotte...
worked for RaycomSports and was formerly Vice President, Sports for WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. He has spent more than forty years covering sports nationally...
division to Raycom Media. The group would later operate under the RaycomSports banner as of January 1, 2008. BT Memories-Jefferson Productions "Raycom Grabs...
its fifteen television and two radio stations and sports production/syndication firm RaycomSports to Atlanta-based Ellis Acquisitions Inc. (founded by...
Retrieved July 5, 2012. "12 Stones and RaycomSports Team Up for 2011 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament". RaycomSports. February 25, 2011. Archived from the...
December 18, 1989. p. 121. "RaycomSports SWC Football and Basketball Syndication Package Brochures (1990–96)" (PDF). RaycomSports. October 2013. Archived...
with RaycomSports that allowed to two companies to jointly-bid on rights and gave Prime the right to broadcast out-of-market games that Raycom already...
rights were previously held by RaycomSports, and before that Lincoln Financial Sports (formerly Jefferson Pilot Sports from 1987 to 2009); from the beginning...
Argentina. From 1995 to 2009, Neal also covered the SEC for Fox Sports Net (FSN) and RaycomSports. In addition to taking up play-by-play duties, Neal hosted...
– Atlanta Braves play-by-play announcer Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast RaycomSports "Sports Network Date Is Set". The New York Times. Reuters. May 17...
as an analyst for the University of Virginia radio network and the RaycomSports-produced ACC Network. He joined ESPN in 2009 as a college basketball...
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