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Originally Posted by Laramie
In 1997, then Mayor Ron Norick and Clay Bennett were trying to sell Oklahoma City and Tulsa as one media market and convince NHL expansion to place a team here, the committee didn't buy the sale of goods.
The NBA Relocation Site Committee that was here in Oklahoma City bought into the idea this time because they learned that 20% of the season tickets were sold in the Tulsa area.
The BOK Center is coming along, don't be surprised if 2 to 5 of the Sonics games are farmed to Tulsa.
The BOK Center will seat 18,041 for basketball with 34 luxury suites.
The Ford Center will lose seats from 19,163 to 18, 887 with 49 luxury suites expanding to 60 suites.
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Designated Metropolitan Areas (DMA) U.S. TV Households.
Oklahoma City (676,000 TV Households) /Tulsa (512,000 TV Households) that's equivalent to the St. Louis market.
Currently, our market is larger than the NBA's Memphis and New Orleans. The NFL's Buffalo and Jacksonville. In all fairness to Buffalo, you have nearby Rochester and Syracuse to beef up there markets.
DMA Rankings - US TV Households by Market
Our media market doesn't appear to be a problem with the anticipated support of our sister 93 miles northeast of us. |
The Bock seats way less...
Basketball: 17,534
Hockey: 16,843
Its only a bit larger than the Key which already makes it way out dated. Not to mention that the structure is next to the county jail and the homeless shelters.
Tulsa will have problems in the future if they try to lure in the Majors with a puny 'iconic' arena. The city should have been wise and invested more of that money in other parts of their downtown.
I bet adding seats in the future will be a huge bitch and be very expensive. It will be like fixing a Porsche.
Love the design. But, in contemporary arenas, its not just the motion of the ocean.... its more about the
size of the wave.
Bock is what 500,000 sq. ft?....Ford Center will be around 850,000 when finished.
Ohh how I will cherish the day when I see a tulsan wearing an OKC NBA t-shirt, all the while taking a short cruise around the cookie cutter jenks riverwalk. haha.
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