Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Newsletter Excerpt, December 9, 2020 -- "Baseball and Television"

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"This is where we are now. Fifty years ago, baseball teams were businesses built on bringing people to the ballpark, giving those people a good team to watch, a fun day in the sun, so they would come back again and again. The better the team, the more money you could make. Television was an additional revenue stream, valuable but not dominant. Today, baseball teams are television programming."