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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: belief
30 Sept 2020 Acquired The NBA
“Exactly. That leaves the local TV rights for any given team, which I think there are about a thousand games across all the teams that are not sold as part of the national package—82 games they all play each other.”
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- Ben Gilbert
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- 30 Sept 2020
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- Acquired
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- The NBA
Transcript context
…That’s for the national TV rights? Exactly. That leaves the local TV rights for any given team, which I think there are about a thousand games across all the teams that are not sold as part of the national package—82 games they all play each other. I think there is about $100–$200 million that each team makes on their own just from that—depending on what market they’re in—local TV contract. Best estimates are that’s roughly equivalent, basically think about $5 billion of that $8.8 probably comes from these TV contracts, both the national collectively-negotiated level and the somewhat individual team level. What’s really interesting that we don’t know is whether the League Pass revenue is part of that with the Turner deal or if it’s separate.…
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