Let’s first look at professional sports’ cashcow: television. The NFL’s most recent TV deal was for $27bn. The MLB gets $800m annually; the NBA about $930m. The NHL looks much weaker, at about $200m annually. However, the NHL also has a lucrative Canadian TV deal, worth about $400m a year. So how does MLS stack up?The league’s new TV deal is for $70m a year. That’s about a ninth of the NHL’s combined TV revenue, an 11th of the MLB deal, a 13th of the NBA deal … and way behind the NFL.
פוטבול - 3.5 מיליארד לשנה
בייסבול - 800 מיליון לשנה
כדורסל - 930 מיליון לשנה
הוקי - 200 מיליון לשנה
כדורגל - 70 מיליון לשנה