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Originally Posted by Northendzone
I keep hearing that sports is the last of the "appointment viewing".
But it seems mind boggling they can pay those rights fees plus whatever production costs and still make some money.
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Here's the best thing about the dodgers story. They've recently had some of the worst ratings in baseball, and average only about 57,000 viewers per game. If I remember correctly, that is less than half the amount of people watching flames games!!
http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Jou...-ratings.aspx?
They will make their money by jacking up their rights fees to the 5 to 10 dollar range, and have the region's five to ten million cable subscribers pay 300-400 million a year in these rights fees.
So essentially 5 million households are paying 60 to 100 dollars a year so 57,000 fans can watch the dodgers. There is no way this model is going to survive.