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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Lots are in the 50-100+ million range and anyone else with RSNs is trying to exit the business and some of them are the only reason the American teams are making any money. There is no way to replicate the deals that relied on cable bundling of having millions of people paying $5/month for thousands to watch the games. Some of the american teams have huge tv territories that are very lucrative in the cable bundle model, but have no future in getting money from the few people who actually watch the games.
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Local TV deals of $50 to $100MM per over and above the deals they just signed with ESPN? That seems high for almost all of these teams.
I guess we are getting off topic. Everything I have ready and believe to be true would say the salary cap is going up quickly once the players finish paying off their debt to the owners.