Get ready for jacked up PPV TV prices for the March 13 Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao Super Fight.
Butter wouldn’t melt in Pacman promoter Bob Arum’s mouth now as he returns with a verbal agreement to the most salient points from the Pinoy Idol.
Arum will take this greenlight from Megamanny to a Monday meeting with Mayweather rep Richard Schaefer.
When Money and Pacman both put pen to paper, it’s officially on and they can see if Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who supposedly wants the Big One, for his sparkling, new football playpen in Arlington, is all “big hat, no cattle” as the Texas expression goes.
Perhaps Arum is just using the Dallas situation as a level to induce a better deal from the MGM Mirage checkwriters in Las Vegas.
I asked Arum a few days if it is true that the pay per view tariff will be well above the $55 mark.
“No comment,” was all Arum said.
Arum told Manila Bulletin’s Nick Giongco that ringside ducats will command $2,500 and the cheap seats will be at $500 (in Las Vegas) so it is easy to surmise that there will be no $39.95 or even $49.95 PPV screen price.
I spoke to one veteran TV man who sees the PPV price as zooming to as much as $75.
Here’s what big operators charged for the Miguel Cotto-Pacman fight on the tube:
Provider: DirectTV
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95 SD, and $64.95 for HD TV
Provider: Dish Network
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95 SD, and $64.95 for HDTV
Provider: Time Warner Cable
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95 SD, and $64.95 for HDTV
Provider: Comcast
Area: USA West Coast
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95
Provider: Cox Communications
Area: USA West Coast
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95
“They are selling a so called Fight of the Century so it is easy to get more than you would for the Pacman-Cotto or Mayweather-Marquez type fights. Going to $60 is easy, really, and then from there the jump to, let’s say, $69.95 or even 75 bucks is not hard. The economy is improving and this is the dream match the public has pounded the table to see.
“You can’t order up Kobe beef or Wagyu steak and expect to pay chopped sirloin prices.”
The insider said PPV operators are unlikely to object as a price hike jumps their bottom line.
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Butter wouldn’t melt in Pacman promoter Bob Arum’s mouth now as he returns with a verbal agreement to the most salient points from the Pinoy Idol.
Arum will take this greenlight from Megamanny to a Monday meeting with Mayweather rep Richard Schaefer.
When Money and Pacman both put pen to paper, it’s officially on and they can see if Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, who supposedly wants the Big One, for his sparkling, new football playpen in Arlington, is all “big hat, no cattle” as the Texas expression goes.
Perhaps Arum is just using the Dallas situation as a level to induce a better deal from the MGM Mirage checkwriters in Las Vegas.
I asked Arum a few days if it is true that the pay per view tariff will be well above the $55 mark.
“No comment,” was all Arum said.
Arum told Manila Bulletin’s Nick Giongco that ringside ducats will command $2,500 and the cheap seats will be at $500 (in Las Vegas) so it is easy to surmise that there will be no $39.95 or even $49.95 PPV screen price.
I spoke to one veteran TV man who sees the PPV price as zooming to as much as $75.
Here’s what big operators charged for the Miguel Cotto-Pacman fight on the tube:
Provider: DirectTV
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95 SD, and $64.95 for HD TV
Provider: Dish Network
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95 SD, and $64.95 for HDTV
Provider: Time Warner Cable
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95 SD, and $64.95 for HDTV
Provider: Comcast
Area: USA West Coast
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95
Provider: Cox Communications
Area: USA West Coast
Event Date: November 14 Saturday
Time: 8:30 p.m. ET & 5:00 p.m. PT
Price: $54.95
“They are selling a so called Fight of the Century so it is easy to get more than you would for the Pacman-Cotto or Mayweather-Marquez type fights. Going to $60 is easy, really, and then from there the jump to, let’s say, $69.95 or even 75 bucks is not hard. The economy is improving and this is the dream match the public has pounded the table to see.
“You can’t order up Kobe beef or Wagyu steak and expect to pay chopped sirloin prices.”
The insider said PPV operators are unlikely to object as a price hike jumps their bottom line.
source here
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