Mariners and FSN nearing 10 year, $300M deal

Goose · 03-22-2007, 08:51 PM

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The Mariners and cable TV partner Fox Sports Northwest are nearing agreement on a 10-year extension of their current agreement, through 2020, that would bring the baseball club more than $300 million in rights fees, according to baseball and sports-broadcast industry sources.

According to USSM, the Mariners are now the highest rated, richest team in the game without their own network(think YES or NESN). And now they won't be having one for another 13 years at least. Kind of surprising because we've seen how much of a cash cow those channels are for other teams.

Sawman · 03-23-2007, 09:37 AM

The Angels had this same dilemma before signing a 10-year $500 million deal with Fox Sports. Many people thought that Arte Moreno would go the independent way and create his own television/radio stations. But, when management costs and other factors are brought into play, the guaranteed yearly income of a deal with Fox Sports just makes a whole lot of sense. Sure, YES and NESN are cash cows for their respective teams, but they weren't always that way, and there were plenty of initial costs that were involved in the creation of those two entities.

bedir than average · 03-23-2007, 08:50 PM

And, what happens to the a privately owned network when MLB fully launches MLBTv as the exclusive provider of baseball coverage?

10/300 is a gauruntee of income.

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Sawman Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Riverside, Ca. Posts: 259	The Angels had this same dilemma before signing a 10-year $500 million deal with Fox Sports. Many people thought that Arte Moreno would go the independent way and create his own television/radio stations. But, when management costs and other factors are brought into play, the guaranteed yearly income of a deal with Fox Sports just makes a whole lot of sense. Sure, YES and NESN are cash cows for their respective teams, but they weren't always that way, and there were plenty of initial costs that were involved in the creation of those two entities.