{"id":36044,"date":"2025-11-06T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/36044\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:03:09","slug":"univ-of-miami-leads-acc-football-viewership-based-on-new-conference-revenue-sharing-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/36044\/","title":{"rendered":"Univ. of Miami leads ACC football viewership, based on new conference revenue sharing model"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Univ. of Miami leads the ACC in cumulative viewership through Week 10 of the college football season, notching \u201croughly 30.1 million total viewers,\u201d according to Watson-Fisher & Swanson of the Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER. The ACC recently implemented a new viewership incentive model<\/a> allowing teams that compete in \u201chigh-rating matchups and attract larger television audiences\u201d to \u201cearn more from the conference\u2019s media rights deal.\u201d The ACC will distribute 60% of TV revenues \u201cbased on a rolling five-year, weighted viewership formula based on football and men\u2019s basketball metrics.\u201d Under the new structure, the ACC will divide its TV revenue 60-40. Sixty percent is \u201cdistributed based on the viewership formula, while the remaining 40% is split equally among member institutions.\u201d Football viewership \u201caccounts for 75% of the viewerships-based share, with the rest (25%) determined by men\u2019s basketball viewership.\u201d ACC Chief Communications Officer Amy Yakola said that the conference will \u201cinclude all games in its model, regardless of location or ACC control.\u201d ACC Network games will \u201calso count,\u201d though their ratings — measured by ComScore — are \u201cnot publicly available.\u201d The Univ. of North Carolina\u2019s football opener against TCU — which drew 6.6 million viewers on ESPN<\/a> — \u201calone ranks ahead of at least 10 ACC schools\u2019 numbers through Week 10.\u201d It also \u201csingle-handedly topped viewership for the entirety of the Tar Heels\u2019 2024 season, which totaled approximately 6.01 million\u201d (Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER, 11\/6<\/a>). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Univ. of Miami leads the ACC in cumulative viewership through Week 10 of the college football season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[143,57,123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-36044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}