NFL’s new TV deals will hand teams $300 million per year

By Justin Birnbaum, Forbes: The NFL reasserted its dominance over the American sports landscape on Thursday as it announced new media deals with CBS, Fox, NBC, ESPN/ABC and Amazon that, according to a source, will net the league $113 billion over 11 years.

That number is staggering, amounting to $321 million per team a year. Yet even though the annual average of $10.27 billion represents an 80% increase over the previous deals ($5.67 billion), the new agreements are not likely to affect team valuations in the short term.

NFL’s New TV Deals Will Hand Teams $300 Million A Year, And Still Won’t Drive Franchise Values Higher

The influx of cash over the next few seasons suggests a bright future for the NFL, and a quick recovery from the lost stadium revenues of 2020. Just don’t expect to see it drive up teams’ price tags.

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