The NFL is raking in more money than ever: $10.5 billion in 2013, with no sign of slowing down.
Regardless of how the controversy surrounding Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Riceshakes out, the NFL has already locked in broadcast rights fees of about $5.1 billion for this year from CBS (CBS), 21st Century Fox (FOX), NBC and ESPN.
That's up about $900 million from the 2013 season, and broadcast deals are growing richer as advertisers scramble to find shows -- like football games -- that viewers still want to watch live, commercials and all.
Additionally, DirecTV (DTV) pays $1 billion a year deal to show all out of market games to fans nationwide. That deal expires this season, and the new agreement is sure to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars more.
NFL games consistently garner some of the best ratings of any program on TV.
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11 comments:
so where is the part about their TAX-EXEMPT status?
Yet, they are a Non Profit!!
Let's look at this legally , The NFL is 93% black , thus making it a minority business.
Isn't this good enough reason to be tax exempt ? Just like Basketball !
I think all sports should be outlawed on TV. They are a waste of time and very boring , We need more of the Housewives of Everywhere.
10:55 I ask the same thing about churches. They rake in money, yet are non-profit.
65% of NFL players are African-American, which includes players of "mixed-race" background as well as Samoan and Polynesian decent but 10 times more likely to get arrested.
B/C of you Fat and out of shape people support them by watching Obama TV!!!
hey 12:51 , because they commit 10 times more crimes , thus the arrest. You are a little simple minded , just a little.
Children should seen and not heard.
12:30 - football and churches, interesting comparison - are you the teacher who gave the compare Hitler to George Bush lesson?
Wife beating should be part of the Super Bowl halftime show.
Non profits are the largest tax havens for the rich there is.The rich don't need a paycheck when everything they own is paid for by the non profit,they just "use it"
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