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D-Backs Agree To New Television Contract
By Steve Adams [February 18, 2015 at 9:32pm CST]
The Diamondbacks and FOX Sports Arizona have agreed to a new television
contract that is believed to be worth more than one billion dollars in total,
reports Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic.
Arizona’s current television contract, which expires at season’s end, has an
average annual vaue of about $31MM per year, Piecoro notes. He adds that the
new contract is believed to at least triple that amount. It’s unclear how much
the total value of the contract is, because the length of the deal isn’t
currently known, but club officials have recently said they were discussing
lengths in the 15- to 20-year range. Piecoro reports that there are indications
that the new deal is indeed in line with those previously discussed parameters,
which would suggest the total value is at least $1.4 billion.
Piecoro writes that the impact on the team’s payroll isn’t immediately known,
though as he points out, the increased revenue won’t vault the D-Backs into
the division-rival Dodgers’ financial stratosphere. The Dodgers’ TV deal
averages out to roughly $334MM annually, according to a Forbes report from
March 2014, trailing only the Yankees, whose annual revenue from the YES
Network averages out to about $385MM.
Recent examples of this type of mega-contract include the Rangers, Mariners and
Phillies, each of whom have AAVs in excess of $140MM, per Forbes. Piecoro notes
that since the Rangers signed their 20-year, $1.7 billion deal in 2010, nearly
a third of the teams in the league have inked similar contracts. Per Forbes,
the previous top 10 television revenues belonged to the Yankees, Dodgers,
Phillies, Rangers, Angels, Mariners, Mets, Red Sox, Giants and Padres.
It should be noted that the increased revenue won’t necessarily be distributed
evenly over the duration of the contract. As MLBTR’s Jeff Todd pointed out
last year in assessing the Phillies’ new television contract, Philadelphia’s
TV revenue did not immediately jump to the $100MM average of their 25-year,
$2.5 billion agreement. Rather, the increase was built in incrementally, with
a three- to four-percent annual bump slowly building over the course of the
deal. Jeff estimated that the Phillies’ first year under the new contract
produced roughly $65MM in revenue (before factoring in equity stake and ad
revenue), and it’s very possible that the D-Backs’ new contract is structured
in a similarly incremental fashion. So, while the roughly $60MM discrepancy
between the AAVs of contracts old and new may cause D-Backs fans to envision an
enormous spending spree next winter, the team’s $92MM payroll may increase in
a more gradual sense than those mean figures would initially suggest.
ARI新的轉播合約應該會超過1 billion,可能是15~20年,所以本來31M的AAV至少會翻三倍
目前前十名的轉播合約是Yankees(385M),Dodgers(334M), Phillies, Rangers, Angels,
Mariners, Mets, Red Sox, Giants and Padres.