Raycom Sports

Raycom Sports is a Charlotte, North Carolina–based producer of sports television programs owned by Gray Media.

The company was founded in 1979 by husband and wife Rick and Dee Ray. In the 1980s, Raycom Sports established a joint venture with Jefferson-Pilot Communications that 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, which renamed the entire company Raycom Media to build upon the awareness of Raycom Sports. The company was acquired by Gray in 2019.

Raycom Sports is known for its tenures with the ACC, and also had former relationships with the SEC, Big Eight, Big Ten and Southwest conferences. In the 2010s, Raycom lost both its ACC and SEC rights to ESPN (a network which had, in its early years, aired Raycom-distributed ACC basketball games for national broadcasts), which transferred the rights to in-house cable networks ACC Network and SEC Network. Raycom Sports continued to produce a package of syndicated ACC telecasts aired by the Bally Sports channels and other regional sports networks; this package moved to The CW in 2023, with Raycom continuing to produce the package for CW Sports.

Through Raycom Sports or its related operation Tupelo Raycom, Gray produces NFL preseason games for several teams, including the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and New Orleans Saints.