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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
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Lots of teams across pro sports didn't change their names when moving. But now there is so much money in rebranded merchandise.
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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Feel like this is overstated. Highly doubt Phoenix viewership of national games is changing much with or without the Coyotes. The local TV market in the US is collapsing so its not like you're going to get a big pay check for local TV rights anymore either.
The Suns just pulled their games off Bally's where they were getting paid and moved to an OTA channel where they make a bunch less.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/28/phoe...amond%20Sports.
Quebec brings in a second team in the french speaking markets. TVA pays $120 million a year for national TV rights.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/repo...ticle15642270/
RDS pays $60m/year for local Canadians rights - https://www.theglobeandmail.com/spor...ticle24117815/
Very likely Quebec generates move TV deal revenue than Arizona would in the future. |
Completely agree. The regional landscape is changing immensely. And for National deals it's tough to parse how much the 'not TOR/MTL/VAN' teams are worth to the equation vs. the not 'NYR/PHI/CHI/BOS/LAK' teams, but I'd think the lowliest Canadian team is worth more than the fringes of the US deal.
It boils down to how a network exec can spin numbers when selling to advertisers...it's worth noting we've gone from 24 to 23 to 24 to 25 US teams in the last decade or so. Losing 'big TV market' ATL doesn't appear to have been a tragedy