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Originally Posted by nfotiu
The math is devastating to these American RSNs. Take the Dallas Stars as an example. They average about 10,000-15,000 households per game, which is about average for the non-hockey US markets. There are about 1.5 million cable TV households in the Dallas DMA, all paying in the neighborhood of 3 or 4 dollars a month.
They are collecting 50 to 70 million a year in carriage fee rates from 1.5 million people and only 1% of those who are paying for it are actually watching it. If they went true a la carte, and all their regular viewers were willing to pay for it, they would need to charge $300 a month for the channel.
The advertising revenue and fees charged a la carte would not pay for production costs for most American hockey franchises.
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That is interesting as hell. Now the RSN's don't just carry one sport though. Dallas for example, carries hockey, NBA and MLB I'm sure. I guess that makes the RSN model a little more viable, but you wouldn't expect the NHL to get much of that revenue pie.
All that said, the appeal of the US hockey franchise is probably little to do with the TV money. In Houston, for example it would give the owner another 50 or so home dates in an arena that he controls.