Uh Oh. Dodgers New Owners Don't Have The Money.

[PP]

The Dodgers TV deal is very nice and as a Braves fan it's hard not to be jealous. The Braves, being among the 5-6 most popular franchises, theoretically could set up a RSN and the windfall would be similar to the newfound revenue explosion the Rangers and Dodgers are currently enjoying, but ... we signed a terrible 30-year television deal 10 years ago with no escalators and no, I repeat, NO, renegotiate clause. They are locked in at about 20% of what they should be earning for the next two decades, all while TV revenue skyrockets around the league. Fun times.

I thought Turner owns the Braves? Wouldn't it then not matter? Too lazy to look up if he sold them though.

[Bigpapa42]

I thought Turner owns the Braves? Wouldn't it then not matter? Too lazy to look up if he sold them though.

Sold them back in something like 2007. Though it wasn't Turner that sold them - when he sold Turner Broadcasting to Time Warner, they became the de factor owners.

[NAHSTE]

I thought Turner owns the Braves?

The Braves are owned by a media conglomerate and have been since 1996 when they were part of an asset merge between Turner and AOL/TimeWarner. AOL/TW sold it to Liberty Media more recently (2007, around when TBS dropped Braves baseball and started doing national broadcasts and playoffs) and they give the team a pretty tight budget. Payroll will not get above $85-90M anytime soon I don't think.

[EmpireWF]

I thought Turner owns the Braves? Wouldn't it then not matter? Too lazy to look up if he sold them though.

Turner got buttfucked because of the AOL/Time Warner merger. Bad.