David Rosenthal
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Yeah, I think this is maybe the most clear cornered resource that we've ever had on the show.
During the dawn of the TV era, I think they were counter-positioned against Major League Baseball in that while decline in revenue from the gate by adding TV certainly was a hit to them, it wasn't as much of an existential hit in the way it was for Major League Baseball.
And so the NFL was more able and willing to experiment with the new business model of TV as the primary revenue source than baseball.
There's no way even in 1949 that the Yankees would have agreed to a league first mindset.
When they have their own television network, etc.
You could maybe put the antitrust exemption, you could kind of shoehorn that into process power.
Like you said, no new league is going to have that.
I think there's definitely scale economies here in the sports entertainment aspect of the product.
Even a single Sunday game would bankrupt any startup league to put those kind of production values in.
I mean, they literally resell the same meteorites like multiple times over.
Okay, that's got to be another acquired merch store t-shirt.