[Beatle17]

Originally Posted by Beatle17

I think baseball is doing ok. Most of the owners of teams have ownership shares in the Regional Sports Networks, i.e. RedSox own 80% of NESN, Yankees own their own etc. Even Oakland has a $1B television deal.

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/lets-upd...for-mlb-teams/

And the teams EACH get $60.1M per year from the new TV contract. As a Cincinnati fan they take in over $100M a year from tv alone and only pay out about $40M in salaries. When you add in tickets, concessions etc., they make as much profit as the top NHL team, haha.