Monday, April 28, 2014
SPORTS and LEISURE (SaL)
Will be starting a sports and recreation cable channel 9/1/14. Aimed at men and women 15-44.
Working name, Sports Leisure.
Will debut with four channels.
MLS Soccer--$1.4B/8y
2015-$150M
2016--150M
2017--150M
2018--150M
2019--200M
2020--200M
2021--200M
2022--200M
FRI night (shared with Univision) and SUN doubleheader. Includes playoffs, all star game, USMNT, USWNT
WCS Soccer--$315M/7y
2015--$25M
2016---30M
2017---35M
2018---40M
2019---50M
2020---60M
2021---75M
2021---75M
Sat night, Sunday afternoon
NBA--$27.75B/9y
2016-17--$2.8B for entire package minus NBA TV Saturday all day and Friday evening
2017-18---2.85B
2018-19---2.95B
2019-20---3B
2020-21---3.05B
2021-22---3.1B
2022-23---3.2B
2023-24---3.3B
2024-25---3.5B
Exclusive TV contracts 9/1/14-8/31/16
Sun Belt football
Horizon basketball--$18M per, up 3% annually, 2014-22
Missouri Valley basketball--$20M per, up 5%, 2016-22
Summit basketball--$10M per, up 3%, 2014-22
Big West basketball--$9M per, up 4%, 2014-18
WAC basketball--$5M per, up 5%, 2014-18
Ohio Valley basketball--$4M per, up 3%, 2014-20
Conference USA football--$50M per, up 3%, 2014-22
ACC baseball--$1M per, up 3%, 2014-18
Pac 12 baseball--$1M per, up 3%, 2014-18
Big 12 baseball--$1M per, up 3%, 2014-18
USA men's national soccer team, home/away matches--part of MLS package
USA women's soccer team, home/away matches--part of WCS package
US Open tennis and US Open tennis series--$275M per, up 3%, 2015-24
NASL--$2M per, up 3%, 2014-21
UEFA--$5M, up 2% per, 2015/16-20/21
All Tennis channel contracts convert over
CFL--$5M per, up 3%, 2014-21
Hooters Honor Flight Bowl--$10M, 2014-21
Boca Raton Bowl--$2.5M, up 3%, 2014-21
Miami Bowl--$2.5M, up 3%, 2014-21
Sky Bet Championship soccer--$1.5M, 2014-21
Big Ten football/basketball first tier, select basketball, and football championship, $525M, up 3%, 2017-22
Mountain West football
Conference USA football
Army, Navy home games
NAIA Championship game
Mountain West basketball
Conference USA basketball
Atlantic 10 basketball
Patriot basketball
American basketball
USL Pro--$750K per, up 3%, 2014-17
SL1
SL2
SL3
SL4
SaL1 and SaL2 will mostly be live sports programming. SaL3 will be mostly live tennis, along with tennis previews and recaps. SaL4 will mostly be business news on weekdays, fictional entertainment programs in prime time and fitness/health/cooking/leisure programming on weekends.
Signed Paula Deen, Wolfgang Puck, and Stacy Poon-Kinney to host cooking/food related shows.
Signed Sarah Palin to host a pair of shows, one about hunting and the outdoors, the other about the US military and its traditions and heroes.
WGN currently charges 20 cents a month, the Tennis Channel about 40 cents, and G4 2 cents, for a total of 62 cents a subscriber per month, while CBS Sports charges 19 cents per month. Looking to request 79 cents per month for all four when the new channels debut, and then go up when various packages kick in.
Bidding $1.4B for 16 game NFL package in 2014, or $87.5M per game if they are willing to add more to package. Awarded contract on 2/5/14.
NFL gave SaL the rights to broadcast two exhibition games each week, or eight total, in addition to the Thursday package.
Since winning the NFL package, we will charge 99 cents per household for all four channels...there is no option for 1, 2, or 3. We expect to be in 100% of all cable/satellite homes by 8/1/14. Our Roku channel will debut 8/1/14 also, and will cost $3.95 a month.
Maria Bartiromo--60 minute show, M-Th, SaL4
Lauren Magiera--sideline, gymnastics
Shannon Shephard--sideline
Lindsey Guentzel--sideline
Shawn Johnson--sideline, gymnastics
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera--60 minute show, M-Th, SaL4
Sophia Minnaert--sideline, Spanish
Juliet Huddy--60 minute daytime show, SaL4
Deals reached for carriage for all four channels, on basic tier, from debut on Charter, Time Warner, Comcast, Dish, Direct. That means about 73M households, or about 75% of the cable/satellite homes have been filled, six months before launch. Receiving 94 cents a household from all five carriers through 11/16.
As of 5/1/14, we have reached agreements with 93% of all cable/satellite homes. We expect to be in every home by the time we debut 7/15.
As of 7/15, we are available in 99.7% of all cable/satellite homes, with signed agreements to be in 99.87% by 8/1/14. We are in an estimated 97.5M homes.
We will "soft debut" on Monday, 7/15 at 6AM on all four channels.
Looking into bringing back several shows, or starting new ones:
Eliminate Evil--24 (EE, Educate and Encourage)
My So Called Life (1/15)
Sarah Connor Chronicles--24
Terriers--24
Better off Ted--24
Trophy Wife--24
Worst Week--24
MST3K, 24
Sarah Palin Outdoors, 24
Heroes USA, 48
Ranger Life, 24 (1/15)
Reading Rainbow, 120, will air commercial free, Sep-May annually
Battle Creek--24
The Following--26
Mindy Project--48
The Millers--48
Stalker--24
All shows will debut 9/14 or 1/15.
Working name, Sports Leisure.
Will debut with four channels.
MLS Soccer--$1.4B/8y
2015-$150M
2016--150M
2017--150M
2018--150M
2019--200M
2020--200M
2021--200M
2022--200M
FRI night (shared with Univision) and SUN doubleheader. Includes playoffs, all star game, USMNT, USWNT
WCS Soccer--$315M/7y
2015--$25M
2016---30M
2017---35M
2018---40M
2019---50M
2020---60M
2021---75M
2021---75M
Sat night, Sunday afternoon
NBA--$27.75B/9y
2016-17--$2.8B for entire package minus NBA TV Saturday all day and Friday evening
2017-18---2.85B
2018-19---2.95B
2019-20---3B
2020-21---3.05B
2021-22---3.1B
2022-23---3.2B
2023-24---3.3B
2024-25---3.5B
Exclusive TV contracts 9/1/14-8/31/16
Sun Belt football
Horizon basketball--$18M per, up 3% annually, 2014-22
Missouri Valley basketball--$20M per, up 5%, 2016-22
Summit basketball--$10M per, up 3%, 2014-22
Big West basketball--$9M per, up 4%, 2014-18
WAC basketball--$5M per, up 5%, 2014-18
Ohio Valley basketball--$4M per, up 3%, 2014-20
Conference USA football--$50M per, up 3%, 2014-22
ACC baseball--$1M per, up 3%, 2014-18
Pac 12 baseball--$1M per, up 3%, 2014-18
Big 12 baseball--$1M per, up 3%, 2014-18
USA men's national soccer team, home/away matches--part of MLS package
USA women's soccer team, home/away matches--part of WCS package
US Open tennis and US Open tennis series--$275M per, up 3%, 2015-24
NASL--$2M per, up 3%, 2014-21
UEFA--$5M, up 2% per, 2015/16-20/21
All Tennis channel contracts convert over
CFL--$5M per, up 3%, 2014-21
Hooters Honor Flight Bowl--$10M, 2014-21
Boca Raton Bowl--$2.5M, up 3%, 2014-21
Miami Bowl--$2.5M, up 3%, 2014-21
Sky Bet Championship soccer--$1.5M, 2014-21
Big Ten football/basketball first tier, select basketball, and football championship, $525M, up 3%, 2017-22
Mountain West football
Conference USA football
Army, Navy home games
NAIA Championship game
Mountain West basketball
Conference USA basketball
Atlantic 10 basketball
Patriot basketball
American basketball
USL Pro--$750K per, up 3%, 2014-17
SL1
SL2
SL3
SL4
SaL1 and SaL2 will mostly be live sports programming. SaL3 will be mostly live tennis, along with tennis previews and recaps. SaL4 will mostly be business news on weekdays, fictional entertainment programs in prime time and fitness/health/cooking/leisure programming on weekends.
Signed Paula Deen, Wolfgang Puck, and Stacy Poon-Kinney to host cooking/food related shows.
Signed Sarah Palin to host a pair of shows, one about hunting and the outdoors, the other about the US military and its traditions and heroes.
WGN currently charges 20 cents a month, the Tennis Channel about 40 cents, and G4 2 cents, for a total of 62 cents a subscriber per month, while CBS Sports charges 19 cents per month. Looking to request 79 cents per month for all four when the new channels debut, and then go up when various packages kick in.
Bidding $1.4B for 16 game NFL package in 2014, or $87.5M per game if they are willing to add more to package. Awarded contract on 2/5/14.
NFL gave SaL the rights to broadcast two exhibition games each week, or eight total, in addition to the Thursday package.
Since winning the NFL package, we will charge 99 cents per household for all four channels...there is no option for 1, 2, or 3. We expect to be in 100% of all cable/satellite homes by 8/1/14. Our Roku channel will debut 8/1/14 also, and will cost $3.95 a month.
Maria Bartiromo--60 minute show, M-Th, SaL4
Lauren Magiera--sideline, gymnastics
Shannon Shephard--sideline
Lindsey Guentzel--sideline
Shawn Johnson--sideline, gymnastics
Michelle Caruso-Cabrera--60 minute show, M-Th, SaL4
Sophia Minnaert--sideline, Spanish
Juliet Huddy--60 minute daytime show, SaL4
Deals reached for carriage for all four channels, on basic tier, from debut on Charter, Time Warner, Comcast, Dish, Direct. That means about 73M households, or about 75% of the cable/satellite homes have been filled, six months before launch. Receiving 94 cents a household from all five carriers through 11/16.
As of 5/1/14, we have reached agreements with 93% of all cable/satellite homes. We expect to be in every home by the time we debut 7/15.
As of 7/15, we are available in 99.7% of all cable/satellite homes, with signed agreements to be in 99.87% by 8/1/14. We are in an estimated 97.5M homes.
We will "soft debut" on Monday, 7/15 at 6AM on all four channels.
Looking into bringing back several shows, or starting new ones:
Eliminate Evil--24 (EE, Educate and Encourage)
My So Called Life (1/15)
Sarah Connor Chronicles--24
Terriers--24
Better off Ted--24
Trophy Wife--24
Worst Week--24
MST3K, 24
Sarah Palin Outdoors, 24
Heroes USA, 48
Ranger Life, 24 (1/15)
Reading Rainbow, 120, will air commercial free, Sep-May annually
Battle Creek--24
The Following--26
Mindy Project--48
The Millers--48
Stalker--24
All shows will debut 9/14 or 1/15.
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Grand Rapids development
After the 2014 NASL season, the Wisconsin Warriors will be moving to the MLS.
Today, the NASL, the Warriors, and the city of Grand Rapids, MI announced that for the 2015 campaign, a new team located in Grand Rapids will replace the Warriors in the NASL.
The team will be named Michigan Builders, which represents the area's history of furniture manufacturing. Season tickets, and merchandise will go on sale in early February, 2014.
The land for the stadium, and for practice fields (one covered), team offices and parking; will be donated by the city and county. The Warriors will own 100% of the team, and will build a soccer specific stadium. It will hold 8-10K spectators with a proposed cost of $30-50M. All seating areas will be covered, though it will be an open air stadium.
The groundbreaking for the stadium will begin 4/15, and construction will begin 4/28, and is expected to be completed by the end of October. This will include a 5K car parking lot, and an entertainment complex which will include a Hooters Live, Freedom 24 Night Owl theater, batting cage, arcade, and will be anchored by a Menards and a Trader Joe's.
EDIT: The Grand Rapids Builders will be an expansion team in the USL Pro, not the NASL, due to market size. While the Warriors will continue to field their W2 team in the USL Pro, they will provide 4-8 players for the Builders, starting in 2015.
Today, the NASL, the Warriors, and the city of Grand Rapids, MI announced that for the 2015 campaign, a new team located in Grand Rapids will replace the Warriors in the NASL.
The team will be named Michigan Builders, which represents the area's history of furniture manufacturing. Season tickets, and merchandise will go on sale in early February, 2014.
The land for the stadium, and for practice fields (one covered), team offices and parking; will be donated by the city and county. The Warriors will own 100% of the team, and will build a soccer specific stadium. It will hold 8-10K spectators with a proposed cost of $30-50M. All seating areas will be covered, though it will be an open air stadium.
The groundbreaking for the stadium will begin 4/15, and construction will begin 4/28, and is expected to be completed by the end of October. This will include a 5K car parking lot, and an entertainment complex which will include a Hooters Live, Freedom 24 Night Owl theater, batting cage, arcade, and will be anchored by a Menards and a Trader Joe's.
EDIT: The Grand Rapids Builders will be an expansion team in the USL Pro, not the NASL, due to market size. While the Warriors will continue to field their W2 team in the USL Pro, they will provide 4-8 players for the Builders, starting in 2015.
