BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Two purple pie charts tell the story.
You had to squint - or have perfect vision - to read what the sliver of yellow on the pie chart to the left represented.
But Charlie Hussey, an associate commissioner for the Southeastern Conference, made sure to explain the yellow to the crowd at The Harbert Center for the Birmingham Venture Club's first meeting of the year on Thursday.
The three percent on the chart labeled "NATIONAL" represented Cablevision - the only cable provider in the country that does not offer the SEC Network as part of its cable package.
Launching in Aug. 2014, the ESPN-owned network just wrapped up its first football season. With six months in the books, calling it a success would be an understatement.
"Bob Iger, the head of Disney - and Disney, of course, owns ESPN - called it the most successful launch of a television channel in the history of cable television," said Hussey, who detailed the launch of the SEC Network, as the Venture Club's keynote speaker on Thursday.
"So not just a sports channel, but all of television. And he said that because of our distribution numbers at launch on August 14."
Prior to launch, the network's distribution numbers looked just like they did on the pie chart.
Hussey, who is responsible for all matters pertaining to the SEC Network and serves as a liaison with ESPN for all television issues, estimated that about 65 million of 92 million cable subscribers have the network available to them - more than 70 percent nationwide.
The Paul Finebaum Show, SEC Nation and SEC Now are three of the shows Hussey says have been most popular throughout the first six months.
"Paul Finebaum is on the network live every day," said Hussey of the four-hour syndicated radio show featuring Finebaum, who spent over two decades as a radio personality in Birmingham, prior to joining the SEC Network.
"People have opinions one way or another about Paul, but certainly people are listening to his show, and it's a popular piece of the network."
Finebaum is also part of SEC Nation, which is the network's spin-off of the popular ESPN College GameDay show.
While SEC Now - similar to SportsCenter - is also a show tailored from a longtime ESPN staple, Hussey pointed to Film Room, with former Georgia quarterback David Greene, as a show that has done surprisingly well over the last few months.
During the 2014 college football season, the SEC Network aired 45 live college football games, in addition to other college sports from the league's 14 members.
The goal for the 2015 season is to offer college football fans at least three games each Saturday, like they did this past season.
"When we were projecting where we might be from a distribution standpoint at launch, there were some unknowns," Hussey said. "We speculated where we might end up when we launched, and I'd say we exceeded our expectations of where we thought we would be on August 14."
While the pie chart labeled "SEC STATES" on Hussey's power point was entirely purple, one of his goals this coming year will be to wipe out that one sliver of yellow on the "NATIONAL" pie chart.
"We announced the network in May of 2013 and at that point AT&T U-verse was the only one signed up," said Hussey, with his power point presentation projecting beside him. "And we were fortunate before launch to have it look just like this."
The headquarters for Cablevision, which is the lone cable provider that does not offer the SEC Network, is located in Bethpage, New York.