Michael Price
speaker
129 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 29 Jun
Michael Price’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like many other sport events, a large proportion of the revenue comes from broadcasting.
That makes up around about 50-55%.
If anybody's listening that follows football, that's typically what Manchester United would earn from their TV revenue.
About half of the revenue generated from television.
And then we have the other things that we would typically associate with sport events.
So commercial partners and sponsors, they make up around about 20%.
Ticket sales, another 20%.
And then hospitality, the kind of concessions, merchandise, that type of thing, another 10, 15%, depending naturally on the year that we're looking at.
And all of that totals up around about half a billion dollars across any annual cycle for Wimbledon.
I think professional sport generally has got a bit of a problem with its financial sustainability.
I think it is giving away far too much of its generated wealth to players in particular and that reduces the stability that you have across those competitions.
It's why we hear about professional sports entities teetering on the edge of administration or going out of business.
It's because they haven't got the formula quite right and they feel almost at hostage to
those players' salaries to make sure that they can, if it's in professional football, sign those players or offer those new contracts in the NFL, the NBA.
Where I think tennis is perhaps doing a better job is it's recognising that it is generating record revenues.
Wimbledon probably in and around the half billion dollars a year mark.
But then if you're giving away even 10% of that revenue in prize funds, then I think it's giving away a fair share of that revenue.
Of course, players will want to earn more.
But what Wimbledon and what tennis are doing is ensuring long-term legacy for the sport so that they can pay the players in the next 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years and they're not completely destabilising the sport.
We've done water.
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