Dodgers new TV deal announced

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Over the next 25 years, Fox is going to pay the Los Angeles Dodgers somewhere between $6 billion and $7 billion to televise its regular-season games, barring a last-minute snafu in negotiations, according to Deadline.com. That's twice the previous record for local TV rights. That's at least a quarter-billion dollars a year for the Dodgers and Dodgers alone. That's maxing out at $1.73 million a game for each of the 4,050 scheduled. That's the final tummy tuck on a body's worth of cosmetic surgery that could happen only in Los Angeles.

 

Sweet Jesus

 

They are the New Yankees.

 

Absolutely 0% chance a team outbids LAD on Grienke, or anyone else they want for that matter

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http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html

 

On the subject of TVs influence on sports, there is a front page article in the NY Times this morning on ESPN's control of college football scheduling--to make up their TV scheduling of games.

 

It's been evident to me for quite a while that the TV networks have a big hand in MLB, NFL and NBA scheduling as well. Seems logical since the bulk of team and league revenues these days comes from TV. The downside is that there is an obvious emphasis on the biggest markets--NY and LA. The teams from those markets seem to get showcased for high profile TV games more than the other teams. The reason is those cities comprise about 25% of the sports TV market, and command higher advertising rates due to their market size.

 

The impact of the TV media on sports is not a subject that gets discussed on ESPN and the other sports channels, or on the internet, for obvious reasons. The sports journalists and pundits are a part of the media.- and often the TV media.

Edited August 25, 2013 by SoxSport