Braves reworked TV Deal

Seems to me they probably used the extra 45 games as leverage to get Fox to renegotiate the entire package. I imagine they are still getting a bit less than market rate since the new deal wasn't negotiated from scratch, but at least now they are in the same league as the other TV deals.
 
It looks OK now, but in 5-6 years around 2020 we are going to be basically in the same boat as the previous deal, maybe not as bad.
 
$500M in extra revenue over the life of the contract. The key missing piece of information is how long the life of the contract is. The old contract had about 15 years left on it. So I would guess they extended it by about 10 years. This means 500M in extra revenue over 25 years, with 10 of those years being fresh extension years. So lets say 30M/year over those ten fresh years and an extra 15M/year for the renegotiated 15 years. So my guesswork would imply near-term revenues get boosted about 15M/year. Teams tend to spend about half of revenues on player payrolls. That's the history excluding the collusion years.
 
nsacpi said:
$500M in extra revenue over the life of the contract. The key missing piece of information is how long the life of the contract is. The old contract had about 15 years left on it. So I would guess they extended it by about 10 years. This means 500M in extra revenue over 25 years, with 10 of those years being fresh extension years. So lets say 30M/year over those ten fresh years and an extra 15M/year for the renegotiated 15 years. So my guesswork would imply near-term revenues get boosted about 15M/year. Maybe a little less. Teams tend to spend about half of revenues on player payrolls. That's the history excluding the collusion years.
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And that is HUGE. It literally changes the future of the whole organization. Really have to be excited about this.
 
If we signed a new deal instead of restructure we may have gotten more than the Dodgers... we cover more states in the Southeast which gives us a huge market.
 
By comparison, the Phillies deal with Comcast is about 2.5B over 25 years. We still will have to outsmart them, but that shouldn't be too hard as long as their current crew is in office.
 
Would be nice if somewhere in the contract Chip is no longer allowed to broadcast games. I yearn for the days of TBS and Skip & Pete.
 
The revelation that these deals were reworked last year explains all of the long-term contracts.
 
With the Santana contract (which they said put us over budget) our payroll this year is over $110M. I'm guessing that next year they will have a budget in the 110-115 range.
 
rico43 said:
The revelation that these deals were reworked last year explains all of the long-term contracts.
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Yeah, too bad that it couldn't have been announced at the time to have prevented reading obnoxious rants posts on the subject for months on end.
 
Going to be lots of money available to potentially extend Santana and lock up Minor, Wood, Heyward, and Gattis...don't forget that Peraza will be ready when Uggla's money's off the books and Reyes will be ready when B. J.'s Deal is up (if not before).

This organization is absolutely swimming in cash even after spending $300 million recently.
 
My guess is that they had to add several years to the contract to get more money. So yes good news but at what cost?

If we were getting $500 Million more for the next 13 years until 2027 (previous end of contract date) that means $38+ Million more a year. If we had to tack on several years that extra money goes down rather quickly.

Again, good news, but I'm holding some reservations.
 
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