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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Some time back I posted the financial data for the 1950 Cleveland Indians, which I had found in an old issue of TSN. You can find it here: http://www.ootpdevelopments.com/boar...hlight=Indians
According to that report, attendance revenue accounted for 74.6% of Cleveland's total revenue, while radio and television rights accounted for just 6.4%. The cut from road game attendance accounted for 8.7% of the team's revenue.
Just the other day I came across the 1957 Chicago White Sox financial data in a TSN issue; I'll have to post that up at some point. |
Ooh. I'd be
very interested to see what the difference is, there-- I know there was fierce debate in the '50s over whether baseball owners should let their games be broadcast on TV, thereby "giving their product away for free." I wonder whether, by 1957, owners had decided to react by demanding enormous licensing fees for TV broadcast rights.