2024
Every article published by the Journal in 2024 — 6 in total.
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12 DEC2024Opinion
The Regulators Arrive, and Nobody Has Told Them What Success Looks Like
Statutory oversight of professional sport is being legislated across several jurisdictions. The powers are broad; the objectives are not defined.
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17 OCT2024Athletes
Player Trading as an Asset Class
Amortisation accounting has turned squad building into a balance-sheet exercise. Clubs are now managing book values as deliberately as they manage results.
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22 AUG2024Venues
The Olympic Ledger, Reconsidered
A Games delivered largely in existing venues has produced the first credible test of whether the host-city model can be made financially defensible.
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27 JUN2024Media
The Platforms Buy Their Way Into Live, and Change What Live Means
General-entertainment streamers acquiring live sport are not competing with broadcasters for the same product. They are buying an acquisition and retention instrument.
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18 APR2024Leagues
Expansion Fees Are the New Media Rights
Closed leagues have discovered that selling a new franchise is the highest-margin transaction available to them. The constraint is that each sale permanently dilutes the seller.
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15 FEB2024Markets
The Regional Sports Network Unwind
Local media contracts signed against a subscriber base that no longer exists are being restructured through the courts. Franchises are discovering that guaranteed revenue was neither.
