Dodgers sign $7 Billion TV Deal

[Dback Jon]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/dodger...sm-between-mlb-s-rich-and-poor-040842261.html


Everyone knew the number would be big. Major League Baseball hates involving the legal system, and it went to court for the number. A team sold for more than $2 billion because of the number. A management group went on a drunken-sailor payroll escapade anticipating the number.

Now we know the number. Big doesn't begin to describe it.

Dangerous does.


The Dodgers' ownership group will have even more reason to smile with their new TV deal. (AP)Over the next 25 years, Fox is going to pay the Los Angeles Dodgers somewhere between $6 billion and $7 billion to televise its regular-season games, barring a last-minute snafu in negotiations, according to Deadline.com.

 

[Mulli]

Wow, imagine if they had been relevant in the last 20 years.

 

[overseascardfan]

Magic Johnson is one business savvy dude. Sells off his Lakers shares to get aboard the money train that is now the Los Angeles Dodgers. They are the New York Yankees West and will have their pick of elite FA's, and I bet if Giancarlo Stanton doesn't re-sign with FLA and that looks like a strong possibility, he will end up in Dodger blue in 2016, just sickening.

 

[desertdawg]

Dodgers sign $7 Billion TV Deal

Some smart TV people in LA, they know everybody is afraid to go the games.

 

[Azlen]

Of course that fee gets paid by anyone and everyone hooked up to cable or satellite TV in Southern California. I've read that already half of your subscription fees go to sports channels. Soon there is going to be a tipping point and non-sports fans are not going to want to pay for sports programming. This deal is bringing us closer to the edge.

 

[Gaddabout]

25 years is a long time to project whether $7 billion is a good deal or not. Sounds like a jackpot, but that's just a long time to be locked into a TV deal. Most teams end up hurting a little on the back end of a broadcast deal, but those deals are usually 4- and 5-years long. I bet they hurt the last decade of it, as other teams cash in on inflation.

 

[WildBB]

Of course that fee gets paid by anyone and everyone hooked up to cable or satellite TV in Southern California. I've read that already half of your subscription fees go to sports channels. Soon there is going to be a tipping point and non-sports fans are not going to want to pay for sports programming. This deal is bringing us closer to the edge.

Yes, and then your going to pay a premium if you do want sports channels. And many will.

Does the team have to revenue share any of that? If no markets like KC and Pitt might be cooked for good.