Adding Up the Frank McCourt-News Corp. Fuzzy Math
Wall Street Journal reporter Matthew Futterman has a great rundown this afternoon of the behind-the-scenes negotiations in recent months between Dodgers owner Frank McCourt and executives of News Corp.’s Fox division, and how they ultimately forced MLB’s hand. McCourt, after sucking out more than $100 million from the franchise, went into overdrive this year to renew a cable TV broadcast contract with Fox that expires at the end of 2013.
According to Futterman, the sequence of events went something like this:
1) At the beginning of 2011, McCourt and Fox agreed on a standalone $200 million loan.
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