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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Adds Maury Brown of the Business of Sports and The Biz of Baseball:
A recession will most likely slow growth for baseball, but at this point with a number of teams adding new stadiums and the aforementioned MLB Channel coming online in ‘09, the odds seem long at this point for a downturn for MLB’s revenues.
Lastly, MLB has at least one serious trump card, should they be faced with numbers that are not to their liking. Placing MLBAM as an IPO would garner a massive cash infusion to MLB. In 2000, MLBAM was said to be worth approximately $2 billion. There’s little doubting that it would be worth more now.
Dave_Rouleau
Posted: January 27, 2008 at 10:56 PM | 9 comment(s)
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MLBAM is also being used in the entertainment industry as in promoting music artists, leveraging interactive website design and distribution of content.
This is a legit business that MLB has created that has clout far beyond baseball.
Offseason ticket sales are boffo and more importantly many, more than 1/2?, teams have hiked ticket prices. I and others have speculated that secondary ticketing is contributing to higher prices and stronger sales.
As for the speculation surrounding a sale of BAM, it is driven by 2 factors. First , it is worth a big pile of dough. Second is the issue of digital rights, how much more money could MLB get from their media partners if they packaged TV & digital rights together?
Do they buy it earlier in the year to reserve their place for some important series, assuring the team of their presence (or at least the ticket money) in advance?
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