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The business of sports, beyond the score.

The Arena is Channing & Co's editorial home: an operator's view of how sports media, venues, events and fan products make money.

The Arena Dispatch

A weekly operator memo. One commercial question per issue, the mechanism behind it, and what an operator could do about it.

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