Boxing only channel

[Kev]

All you have to do is get people to realize it will make a lot of money. At best a big fight will only get 1 million buys at $50 a clip. Don't let the news fool you, boxing has a huge global fan base. So the money would break down like this:

1million at $50 an order = 50million dollars for one fight 15 such fights a year $750million off of ppv per year

or

100million globally (modest estimate) at $40 a year for boxing channel encompassing all ppv fights and some news/old fights = 4billion dollars a year made from station.

Makes sense to me.

You seriously think 100 million people would subscribe to a boxing channel. Dude you are crazy

Hence it being a global station. Instead of having to find different stations depending on where you live (Hbo, sky sports, etc.) its all under one roof and you can specify who you want it to follow ala nfl 24/7 pay channel. I think way more than 100 million would subscribe worldwide for 40 a year. Thats like 20 over in the UK and the biggest complaint about boxing is all the ppv's and how expensive they are. People could care less about the belt rankings and all that just as long as they can see the fights.

There are only 100 million or so Sky cstomers in the whole of the United Kingdom across all channels, no way in hell 20 million Brits would sign up just for a boxing channel, soccer maybe but boxing no way. It's not even in the top 5 British sports.

Plus there is no way in hell that the promoters and media companies would allow a subscriber to watch all the PPV fights for a one off payment of $40 dollars per year

The media companies know only too well that it's basically the same people repeat ordering the majority of the fights.

A person who orders the Mosely Cotto PPV will almost certainly also order the Barrera Pacquiao and Hatton Mayweather PPV's as well.

Your whole business plan is flawed. I would imagine that most of the PPV's are bought regularly by a hardcore group of fans, i.e 4 or more PPV events each per year, some even more.

It would make no economic sense whatsoever to create a channel where everyone gets to see all the PPV fights for a one of £40 subscription.

It wouldn't mean more sales overall, it would just mean the hardcore only pay once per year rather than half a dozen times, great news for the fans but commerical suicide for the boxing promoters, fighters, governing bodies etc.