NFP: In Hiatus what Owners are Discussing till meeting Tuesday

[cowboyjoe]

http://www.nationalfootballpost.com/The-Ten-Step-Program.html

Hope floats with meetings between the NFL and the NFLPA continuing in Maryland this week and a meeting of the full NFL membership next week in Chicago. The parties have pressed pause on Courtroom football and refocused on a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA). With this optimistic news, let’s reset the Top Ten issues as we hope for common ground.

1) Revenue Allocation
The NFL presently generates over $9 billion and may top $20 billion by 2016. The biggest issue of this dispute is how to split these revenues.

[burmafrd]

There is NO way that revenue will hit $20 billion by 2016. That is fantasy Island.

We would have to DOUBLE the TV deals; and the networks are barely breaking even as it stands.

[burmafrd]

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/10/business/la-fi-ct-upfront-20110610

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television


Right now the NFL gets around 4 Billion a year for TV rights. To get that $20 Billion number we would have to at least TRIPLE what we get for it. Where is that money going to come from. The Big 4 Networks max at TV revenue for EVERYTHING at about $9 billion a year now. We would have to get ALL of that and more to reach that $20 billion mark. TV ad revenue at the major networks have been growing very slowly if at all the past few years and even if the economy gets really healthy there is just no way.

[ChldsPlay]

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/10/business/la-fi-ct-upfront-20110610

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_on_television


Right now the NFL gets around 4 Billion a year for TV rights. To get that $20 Billion number we would have to at least TRIPLE what we get for it. Where is that money going to come from. The Big 4 Networks max at TV revenue for EVERYTHING at about $9 billion a year now. We would have to get ALL of that and more to reach that $20 billion mark. TV ad revenue at the major networks have been growing very slowly if at all the past few years and even if the economy gets really healthy there is just no way.


Hyperinflation. In 2016, $20 billion will be the new $12 billion.

[the truth of it all]

Even with inflation that seems a little.... optimistic.

[AbeBeta]

the TV deal will be for an 18 game season -- that's two more full weeks. I'd also expect that in an 18 game season, we might end up with another bye week ... that'd push us to 3 extra weeks. Fold in a greatly expanded TH schedule (byes would make that easier to pull off too) and you get another big revenue piece ... so there are reasons aside from inflation that the contract would increase substantially.

[burmafrd]

yeah. As I pointed out there is just not the advertizing revenue there to increase anywhere near tripling TV money. IT just is NOT there. Even with an 18 game schedule; just no way and anyone claiming it will happen is an idiot. The TV networks would have to DOUBLE the rates they are charging- is anyone dumb enough to think that will fly? They would have to cut by at least half what they spend on non sports - their PRIME time lineup. It is just plain dumb.