Abstract
Panel data of 2243 regular season games for Football Bowl Subdivision teams during 2007-09 are used to examine the relationship between the extent of video coverage and stadium utilization. Results suggest that an advertising effect overwhelms a substitution effect generated by video coverage. After controlling for other variables, national video coverage has a significant and large positive impact on attendance as a percentage of stadium capacity but the magnitude of this effect decreases as temperatures rise. Local coverage has a small positive impact only when a temperature-coverage interaction variable is not included. Regional coverage has no impact on capacity utilization.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 299-320 |
Journal | International Journal of Sport Finance |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 4 |
State | Accepted/In press - Nov 2017 |