Top rank ratings (aside from the pacquiao) fight have done similar to PBC ratings on ESPN. Why would ESPN. Make a new deal with TR because they want their library.
The library is more valuable to espn than the actual live fights because they can pick any fight they want to broadcast which means they can pick the best fights and because results are already predetermined they know when the fights going to end.
ESPN new deal hasn't been made a big deal about because Top rank didn't get the best deal.
Not sure if he did. Just glad their were investors for both.
Do me a favor DAZED when they ask who posted it first. Just say it was this guy.:beerchug:
actually your right I do recall Top rank getting money from an investor (was it CAA or a bank) either way its been reported by very reliable sources that Top rank does indeed have a deal with ESPN
Didn't haymon go to CAA first
Not sure if he did. Just glad their were investors for both.
Nope. I think the small fee is just funny language to hide the fact that it’s a time buy.
Is ESPN committing more marketing resources? Sure. But Top Rank has an investor and bought time.
actually your right I do recall Top rank getting money from an investor (was it CAA or a bank) either way its been reported by very reliable sources that Top rank does indeed have a deal with ESPN
Didn't haymon go to CAA first
You think Top Rank is making bank at ESPN?
Their ratings aren't that different from what pbc was doing at espn
Nope. I think the small fee is just funny language to hide the fact that it’s a time buy.
Is ESPN committing more marketing resources? Sure. But Top Rank has an investor and bought time.
A few people on this sight have said the first deal top rank got was basically a 360 deal. Where top rank is getting a small rights fee and ESPN is getting access to their fight library among other things.
Even Dana white said that top ranks deal is overrated.
A small rights fee. Yea, okay.
I don’t know the details of the extension. I do know the original deal is a time buy with very little in the way of financing coming in from the network.
A few people on this sight have said the first deal top rank got was basically a 360 deal. Where top rank is getting a small rights fee and ESPN is getting access to their fight library among other things.
Even Dana white said that top ranks deal is overrated.
They’re definitely buying time, but my point was that the model isn’t strictly “we pay for the hour and you give it to us”, I believe there are other things in the deal than a standard time buy. I just can’t remember what they are
Only thing I can think of is content and maybe exclusive rights? PBC put on cards on other networks and maybe Loma and Crawford are bound to ESPN? That’s all I can think of
not according to kevin iole whos pretty fair. He's been saying that top rank has a deal for the next 7 years
I don’t know the details of the extension. I do know the original deal is a time buy with very little in the way of financing coming in from the network.
PBC was primarily a time buy, whereas Top Rank’s deal is a different model. In that sense it’s like comparing apples to oranges
Top Rank is buying time too.
PBC was primarily a time buy, whereas Top Rank’s deal is a different model. In that sense it’s like comparing apples to oranges
I am not comparing their deals. I am comparing how and why one was able to get a deal and the other wasn't.
I.e. my point on their similar ratings
Top rank ratings (aside from the pacquiao) fight have done similar to PBC ratings on ESPN. Why would ESPN. Make a new deal with TR because they want their library.
The library is more valuable to espn than the actual live fights because they can pick any fight they want to broadcast which means they can pick the best fights and because results are already predetermined they know when the fights going to end.
ESPN new deal hasn't been made a big deal about because Top rank didn't get the best deal.
PBC was primarily a time buy, whereas Top Rank’s deal is a different model. In that sense it’s like comparing apples to oranges