[Rumour] Panthers to be sold in the next few weeks

[doctajones428]

Florida Nordiques here we come!

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by troutman

The panthers have 4,000 households watching regional broadcasts (and that is up one-third from the year before). That is crickets chirping. But they survive because of the lease valo described.

http://www.sportingnews.com/nhl/stor...o-red-sox-nesn

Revenue for last year was $87 million (how did they do that?).

http://www.forbes.com/nhl-valuations/list/

Attendance reported at 16,991 (that seems inflated if you have watched a game from there);

http://espn.go.com/nhl/attendance/_/year/2013

According to another Forbes article, they recently signed a long term lucrative tv deal. http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlh45...rida-panthers/ The racket that is RSN carriage fees cares little about whether anyone is watching.

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by doctajones428

Florida Nordiques here we come!

You should probably try reading the article before commenting. Just sayin'

[troutman]

Originally Posted by nfotiu

According to another Forbes article, they recently signed a long term lucrative tv deal. http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlh45...rida-panthers/ The racket that is RSN carriage fees cares little about whether anyone is watching.

Thank you. I assumed that would be the case. These days may be numbered for sports franchises. There is a move to reform cable packages where subscribers have to pay for sports channels they do not watch. The LA Dodgers get ridiculous TV revenues despite having quite modest ratings.

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dodge...local-tv-deal/

It seems everyone is writing about the sports programming bubble, wondering whether it’s here and when it will burst. Just Google “sports TV bubble” and you’ll find this story from the New York Times in January, and these from FOX and ESPN in March. But it’s not just this year. Forbes warned of a sports TV bubble in late 2011 and followed up in early 2013 declaring that the bubble existed and was about to pop.

What is the sports TV bubble anyway? It’s the hyper-inflated prices sports networks, cable and satellite companies, and consumers pay to produce, show, and watch live sporting events. Live sports means no fast-forwarding through commercials on the DVR. Advertisers pump gobs of money into the system to place their products in front of an engaged 18- to-35-year-old male audience. Target consumers are valuable. They make sports programming valuable. Networks pay billions to broadcast sports to those consumers but everyone — not just sports fans — foot the bill.

The question now is whether RSNs will start gathering similar kinds of information in deciding how much to bid for teams’ broadcast rights. Hard to imagine they won’t, if they want to avoid finding themselves in the same situation as CSN Houston and Fox Sports San Diego.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Resolute 14

You should probably try reading the article before commenting. Just sayin'

I can't even figure out what that post means. Florida Nordiques? So a team is going to move back to Quebec, revive the Nordiques, then move to Florida? Will they replace the Panthers? Will this be another Florida team? Maybe the Panthers just going to change their name to troll Quebec.

[Żoso]

Originally Posted by doctajones428

Florida Nordiques here we come!

Florida Sudiques