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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
New NHL TV contract
They signed a presumed 2 billion$ deal over 10 years with NBC and NBC Versus. That 200MM$ a year. Four years ago, NHL signed a 100MM$ a year (for 6 years) with CBC (in Canada). And that was for non-exclusive rights. Three years ago, they signed (for 6 years) with TSN (in Canada). I couldn’t tell for how much, but let’s guess also 100MM$.
So, that’s what the national TV market looks like: Canada = USA, even though Canada is one-tenth the population. In other words, there’s 10 times more TV hockey money per random Canadian than random American.
Interestingly, the NFL’s package I think is for 8 billion$ over 6 years, or 1.33 billion per year. That’s about 7 times larger than the Canadian hockey deal, which basically is in the ballpark.
Roughly speaking, NFL gets from Americans and NHL from Canadians some 5 to 7 cents dollars per resident. The NHL gets from Americans a bit over half a cent dollar per resident.
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