Menu
Download the app

SBJ subscribers – Enhance your experience with the revamped iOS app

Sports Media

THE FUTURE OF TV RIGHTS FEES FEATURED ON "MONEYWEEK"

          TV rights fees for the PGA Tour, NBA and NFL were
     profiled by CNN's Sean Callebs.  Tiger Woods' win at The
     Masters was "great timing for golf.  CBS' contract with the
     PGA [Tour] is up next year.  Woods' popularity and the
     ratings he attracts will mean more rights money from the
     networks."  Pilson Communications Chair Neil Pilson, on the
     "Woods factor" only going so far: "The fact is no one knows
     how many tournaments Tiger Woods is going to play in.  That
     is going to have an unsettling influence on where the rights
     fees goes, because Tiger is not going to play in all or
     perhaps even most of the PGA [Tour] events."  NBC's $366M
     rights fee with the NBA expires after the '98 season. 
     Callebs: "Some media specialists expect CBS to make a play
     to gain rights to some games.  And the forecast, record
     rights fees for the NBA."  Callebs notes the NFL "should
     reap the biggest reward," with at least a 40% increase in
     rights fees with its new deal ("Moneyweek," CNN, 4/27).  
          PAY TO PLAY: Ladenburg Thalmann Media Specialist Porter
     Bibb: "We can see in our lifetime, probably in the next
     decade, the day when you will not see any free sports on
     television.  Certainly the big ticket events are going to be
     all pay-per-view."  Callebs: "Analysts say the networks are
     reaching the point of diminutive returns.  They can't sell
     enough advertising to pay the hundreds of millions for the
     rights to major league events.  Media observers say the
     public will complain and law makers will balk, but in the
     end, the public will probably end up paying for such
     American classics as the World Series" ("Moneyweek," 4/27). 

SBJ Morning Buzzcast: March 25, 2024

NFL meeting preview; MLB's opening week ad effort and remembering Peter Angelos.

Big Get Jay Wright, March Madness is upon us and ESPN locks up CFP

On this week’s pod, our Big Get is CBS Sports college basketball analyst Jay Wright. The NCAA Championship-winning coach shares his insight with SBJ’s Austin Karp on key hoops issues and why being well dressed is an important part of his success. Also on the show, Poynter Institute senior writer Tom Jones shares who he has up and who is down in sports media. Later, SBJ’s Ben Portnoy talks the latest on ESPN’s CFP extension and who CBS, TNT Sports and ESPN need to make deep runs in the men’s and women's NCAA basketball tournaments.

SBJ I Factor: Nana-Yaw Asamoah

SBJ I Factor features an interview with AMB Sports and Entertainment Chief Commercial Office Nana-Yaw Asamoah. Asamoah, who moved over to AMBSE last year after 14 years at the NFL, talks with SBJ’s Ben Fischer about how his role model parents and older sisters pushed him to shrive, how the power of lifelong learning fuels successful people, and why AMBSE was an opportunity he could not pass up. Asamoah is 2021 SBJ Forty Under 40 honoree. SBJ I Factor is a monthly podcast offering interviews with sports executives who have been recipients of one of the magazine’s awards.

Shareable URL copied to clipboard!

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/1997/04/28/Sports-Media/THE-FUTURE-OF-TV-RIGHTS-FEES-FEATURED-ON-MONEYWEEK.aspx

Sorry, something went wrong with the copy but here is the link for you.

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/1997/04/28/Sports-Media/THE-FUTURE-OF-TV-RIGHTS-FEES-FEATURED-ON-MONEYWEEK.aspx

CLOSE