J-P Sports And Raycom To Consolidate Sales Offices

Charlotte-based TV syndication partners Jefferson-Pilot Sports and Raycom Sports “plan to consolidate their sales staffs” this fall in a move that “will eventually put JP Sports’ 10 sales representatives in the same office with Raycom’s four sales staffers,” according to Erik Spanberg of the CHARLOTTE BUSINESS JOURNAL. The companies have a 25-year partnership in selling and producing broadcasts of ACC basketball games. J-P Sports also “handles sales and production” for SEC football and basketball, as well as ACC football. J-P Sports President Ed Hull said that the plan calls for the companies’ sales staffs “to eventually sell all of the [ACC’s] football and basketball games collectively.” Spanberg notes the two partners “will continue to maintain separate companies and offices.” Philadelphia-based Lincoln National Corp. last week announced that it would acquire Jefferson-Pilot, which owns J-P Sports (CHARLOTTE BUSINESS JOURNAL, 10/14 issue).