CalvinBall wrote:thome (among others) is on the front of the packet that my familys season tickets just came in. its real. this is happening.

http://instagr.am/p/G9akxPsI1p/

The Phillies, according to Forbes magazine, netted some $24 million from their TV rights contracts with Comcast and PHL17 during the 2010 season. It's important to note the Phillies also profit from TV advertising sales, which they still handle in-house, to avoid sponsor conflicts in ballpark signage. The amount the Phillies earn from those sales is unknown, but in any future mega-deal, the Phillies could choose to cede the revenue from TV ad sales to Comcast or another broadcaster, if the price is right.

Still, the total payout of TV contract and ad revenue rights will dwarf whatever the Phillies earn under the current deal.

San Diego is the 26th largest market in baseball. Their 2011 local TV ratings were 3.15, or about a third of the Phillies' 9.12 number. And the Padres are reportedly on the verge of signing a 20-year deal with Fox Sports possibly worth as much as $1.5 billion. (This number, reported by USA Today, has been disputed. But it could include the value of an equity stake in the network.)

In Houston, the Astros will earn an average of $80 million a year beginning in 2013 through a joint-venture operation with Comcast, according to the New York Times. The Astros had baseball's worst local ratings in 2011.

The Angels lured Albert Pujols and C.J. Wilson on the strength of a $3 billion TV rights deal signed with Fox Sports West. That agreement was reached despite the Angels posting baseball's fourth-worst local TV ratings in 2011.

Ownership for the other team in Los Angeles, the financially challenged Dodgers, is up for auction. But bidders are also vying for the value of the team's next TV deal, which can begin in 2014.

"You can spend $1.5 billion now to get the team," Scott Boras told USA Today last week, "but a month later, you're going to get $4 billion or $5 billion or more for the regional sports network."

And then Boras predicted the Phillies could land a deal even larger than that of the Dodgers.

For nine straight seasons, the Phillies' local ratings have risen. Over that period, the growth is 176 percent, according to Sports Business Daily. In San Diego, where the Padres are about to profit, the local ratings decreased 41 percent from 2010 to 2011.

So, yes, we are talking about a possible $5 billion dollar infusion beginning in 2016. And by then, who knows what sort of premium price is being placed on live sports on TV?

CalvinBall wrote:i know comcast spectacor is a massive company but i just dont know how they are going to pay for all these television deals. 5 billion. goodness.

Bucky wrote:I'm a little confused as to how the Phillies get ANY money from the broadcast outlets if they (the phillies) collect all the ad revenue themselves. Isn't that ad revenue the value prop for the broadcasters??

FTN wrote:phillies should definitely start floating the idea of their own rsn. leverage baby, leverage.

Grotewold wrote:Apparently Beane was in town the other day and said watching the '93 Phillies offense was a key factor in how he decided to build the A's

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

Grotewold wrote:Apparently Beane was in town the other day and said watching the '93 Phillies offense was a key factor in how he decided to build the A's

Steroids?

mozartpc27 wrote:What are they doing down at CBP? There are about half a dozen sections in the upper deck that have had the seats ripped out, or at least that's what it looks like as I drive by, and it's been that way for a month or more.