Re: PING OSU 87

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 04:52:31 GMT, "Lurker at the Threshhold"
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>"CapriSmall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> The men's soccer league survives the same way the WNBA does - they've got
>> sugar daddies with deep pockets.
>
>Off Topic post.
>
>MLS has been estimated to have lost $300 million since startup in 1996.
>
>Philip Anschutz owns six teams in the league.
>Lamar Hunt owns two teams in the league.
>The Kraft brothers own the last two.
>There are only ten teams in the league.
>Philip Anschultz, to put it bluntly,
>virtually owns soccer in the United States.
>He owns the TV rights for the World Cup in the United States.
>He owns one of only two soccer specific stadiums in
>the United States. Lamar Hunt owns the other one.
>Anschutz is willing to lose money running MLS
>as long as he can make it up in other areas.
>MLS is the FIFA sanctioned
>pro soccer league for the United States. As long as
>Anschutz keeps MLS up and running he and his
>cohorts control the U.S. "territory".
>
>WUSA was the only "serious" pro soccer league in the United States
>that Anschutz had no "interest" in.  WUSA tried to survive on
>corporate sponsorships, TV revenues, gate receipts and whatever other
>revenues it could get.  It couldn't.  Someone like Anschutz would get
>involved only if he would get control of the league.
>
>> I think people should just let the league get on any TV station they can,
>> attract any audience they can, and if a decade or so figure out what's
>> working and what's not.
>
>More and more TV sports are under the control of Media Moguls like Rupert
>Murdoch (FOX), and Michael Eisner (ESPN and ABC). Control of the
>sport they put on their networks will become a key point in whether that
>sport will be broadcast or not. Sports networks controlled by the leagues
>they broadcast may be the only way to
>respond; things like NBA-TV for example.

One nice thing about cable and satellite TV is that it's made it a
helluva lot easier and cheaper to set up a network . . . .

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(Why isn't NBATV on Adelphia?)


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