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To: PAR35
PPV isn’t going to cover many $200 million contracts for baseball players. Pro football may be able to make it on PPV.

Owners will be pleading poverty in 5-10 years, unless they find new revenue streams on top of their regional/national TV deals.

30 posted on 12/07/2015 7:15:45 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Night Hides Not

Of course, before the cable dollars came along, folks were predicting that Major League Baseball had an un-sustainable model.


34 posted on 12/07/2015 7:58:25 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Night Hides Not; All
Owners will be pleading poverty in 5-10 years, unless they find new revenue streams on top of their regional/national TV deals.

Yeah then they will probably start threatening the cities where they are domiciled for even more freebies, to go along with their free stadia; 'Pay us a subsidy or we will move to x-city'...eff them!
44 posted on 12/07/2015 10:10:46 AM PST by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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