Yeah except the comparison is incompetent.
This entire show was an advertisement for tourism to the city of Nashville, which is currently booming to such an unbelievable extent that we don’t have hotel rooms for everyone coming here. I work across the street from one of the locations used in the film and there is a line literally around the block to get in every night. We hiked the beer tax and the hotel tax and our city budget is dealing with unexpectedly huge inflows. The 15 million a year that went to this thing was the best investment the city has ever made when it comes to ROI.
You’ve got two possible paths for that tourism:
Either it was driven by the show, which means your bubble just burst, hope you don’t know anybody that went in debt to capitalize on it in the future.
Or the bubble continues, which means it wasn’t driven by the show.
And frankly, other analysis have been done that include things like tourism bumps, the verdict is in. Giving incentives to TV programs is a money LOSER, even with tourism bumps that usually don’t happen. Sorry unless Nashville bucks ALL the trends the “investment” was 100% completely wasted, they ALWAYS lose money.