BROADCASTING & CABLE offers details of MLB team rights,
and the following lists broadcast, cable and radio deals for
NL teams in 2000, as well as the number of games, deal terms
(status/length of deal) and an estimated 2000 rights fee.
YR/YRS is a breakdown of the contract status: Year currently
in/Length of total contract. See tomorrow's issue of THE
DAILY for the AL from BROADCASTING & CABLE's 3/27 issue:
BROADCAST CABLE RADIO
YR/ RGTS YR/ RGTS YR/ RGTS
TM NET GMS YRS FEE NET GMS YRS FEE NET YRS FEE
NL EAST
ATL WTBS 90 n/a ^ FSN 25 4/10 $4.0M WSB 1/5 $5.0M
TS 34 n/a ^
FLA WAMI 55 n/a ^ FSN 95 2/12 $10M WQAM 4/5 $3.7M
MON -- -- -- -- -- --
NYM WPIX 50 n/a ^ FSN 100 14/30 $13M+ WFAN 1/3 $4.6M
PHI WPSG 70 2/2 ^ CSN 77 3/15 ^ WPHT 3/3 ^
NL CENTRAL
CHI WGN 71 n/a ^ FSN 73 2/10 $15M WGN n/a ^
WCIU 8 n/a n/a
CIN n/a n/a n/a n/a FSN 85 2/6 $2.5M WLW 3/3 $3.5M
HOU KNWS 65 n/a n/a FSN 72 3/10 $10M+ KTRH 2/5 ^
MIL WCGV 50 n/a n/a MSC 80 3/6 $2.6M WTMJ 3/5 $2.0M
PIT WCWB 13 n/a n/a FSN 85 1/8 $7.0M+ KDKA 1/6 ^
WPGH 2 n/a n/a
STL KPLR 45 1/4 n/a FSN 58 3/8 $4.0M KMOX 4/5 $5.0M
NL WEST
COL KWGN 75 n/a n/a FSN 50 4/10 $10M+ KOA 4/5 $4.5M
LA KTLA 50 4/5 $15.5M FSN2 80 n/a n/a KXTA 3/5 $6-8M
SDP KUSI 24 n/a n/a CH.4 114 4/5 $6.0M KOGO 1/4 $5.0M
SFG KTVU 56 6/6 $4.5M FSN 59 5/7 $4.5M KNBR 2/6 $5.5M
ARZ KTVK 75 3/10 ^ FSN 60 3/10 $5.0M+ KTAR 3/10 ^
^ TEAM NOTES: ATL: revenue reflects simultaneous
national carriage of games on TBS. Team, WTBS-TV and Turner
South are owned by Time Warner. Estimated 2000 revenue for
TV is $32.5M, estimated 2000 revenue for Turner South is
$12.5M; FLA: WAMI-TV pays FSN $3.2M for 55 games; MON: Expos
currently do not have a broadcast, cable or radio deal; NYM:
FSN sublicenses 50 games to WPIX-TV; PHI: team and WPSG-TV
have revenue-sharing partnership for broadcast TV, radio and
cable. Phillies partnered with Comcast to form Comcast
SportsNet. Estimated 2000 revenue for TV is $7M, for cable
is $3.5M and radio is $2.4M; CHI: Tribune owns team and WGN-
AM and WGN-TV. WGN-TV buys airtime on WCIU-TV. Revenue
reflects simultaneous national carriage of superstation WGN.
Estimated 2000 revenue for TV is $31M, while radio is $9M;
CIN: FSN has both broadcast and cable TV rights; HOU: Team
retains radio rights. Estimated 2000 revenue from radio
rights is $4.5M; MIL: Brewers buy airtime on WCGV-TV. Team
shares some revenue with MSC and WTMJ-AM; PIT: FSN
sublicenses 15 games to TV stations. Team retains radio
rights. Estimated 2000 revenue for radio is $3.5M; STL:
Cardinals buy airtime on KPLR-TV; COL: FSN buys airtime on
KWGN-TV; L.A.: KTLA-TV sublicenses 40 games to Fox, which
owns Dodgers; SDP: Cox Communications, which owns Channel 4,
has a programming and promotional partnership with KUSI-TV.
Cox keeps all ad revenue; SFG: team retains five to seven
30-second spots per game on KTVU-TV. KTVU parent Cox
Broadcasting and KNBR-AM are both limited partners in team;
ARZ: team retains broadcast TV and radio rights. Estimated
2000 revenue for TV rights is $10.5M, while radio is $4.2M.
Team and KTVK-TV have revenue-sharing agreement.
