GENERAL
Arena:
Capacity: 19,596
Surface: Grass
Built: 1966 / $100 M USD
Head office: 1011 Broadway Oakland, CA 94607
Phone: (888) GSW-HOOPS
Fax:
Website: www.warriors.com OR www.nba.com/warriors
E-Mail:
Radio flagship: 680 KNBR-AM (selected games on 1050 KTCT-AM) |
Local television:
Corporate partners/sponsors: Anheuser-Busch, Kia, Oracle, Southwest Airlines, Toyota Motor Company.
Mascot: (Thunder – discontinued in 2008-2009).
Established: 1946 in the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
Franchise ancestry: Philadelphia Warriors 1946-1962
San Francisco Warriors 1962-1971
Golden State Warriors 1971 to present |
BUSINESS OF WINNING
ATTENDANCE
2011-2012 COMING SOON
Home Dates: 41
Home Attendance Average: N/A
Home Attendance Drawing Capacity: N/A
Home Attendance Total: N/A
Home Attendance Rank: click here
for 2010-2011 rank
Team Marketing Report:
Average Ticket Cost & Fan Cost Index: click here
2010-'11 Estimated Gate Receipts: $45M USD
GOLDEN STATE MARKET
MARKET SIZE
City Population: 395,864
Metropolitan Area Population: 4,203,898 (San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont)
Greater Metro Area Population: 7,039,362 (San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose)
City size ranking: #45 in US / #26 in NBA
Metro area size ranking: #12 in US / #15 in NBA
Greater Metro area size ranking: #5 in US / #7 in NBA
Designated Market Area (DMA): 2,476,450 TV homes / 2.164% of US
DMA ranking: #6 in US / #6 in AL / #8 in NBA
Source: Nielsen 2008, US Census Bureau 2005 and 2007 |
FRANCHISE FINANCIALS


 OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Owner: Chris Cohan
Acquisition date/price: 1995 / $119 M USD
General Manager: Chris Mullin
Head Coach: Don Nelson
Stadium: Public / owned and operated by City of Oakland and Alameda County
Concessions: Levy Restaurants
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MARKET ECONOMICS
Economic Description: General and diversified; trading centre for hard red winter wheat (major ingredient in bread).
Major companies: Four Fortune 500 companies – Sprint Nextel, H & R Block, Embarq Corporation, YRC Worldwide, Inc.; other companies – Hallmark Cards; Sanofi-Aventis drug manufacturer, AMC Theaters, DST Systems, Interstate Bakeries, Great Plains Energy, Aquila.
City per capita income (ranking): $20,753 USD (#14 NBA)
Metro area per capita income (ranking): $61,337 (#1 US / #2 NBA)
State per capita income (ranking): $39,626 (#9 US / tied #5 NBA)
MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS
Ethnicity (City of Oakland): Race – White 34.1%, Black 30.3%, Asian-American 15.6%, Other 19% (alongside Long Beach, California as the most ethnically diverse city in the U.S); Hispanic of any race: 21.19%.
Language: Approximately 80% English.
Median Age: 33 years.
Political Leadership: Mayor of Oakland – Ron Dellums (Democrat); Governor of California – Arnold Schwarzenegger (R); U.S. Senators – Dianne Feinstein (D), Barbara Boxer (D); U.S. Representatives – 34 Democrat, 19 Republican: Mike Thompson (D), Wally Herger (R ), Dan Lungren (R ), Tom McClintock (R), Doris Matsui (D), Lynn Woolsey (D), George Miller (D), Nancy Pelosi (D – Speaker of the House), Barbara Lee (D), Ellen Tauscher (D), Jerry McNerney (D), Jackie Speer (D), Pete Stark (D), Anna G. Eshoo (D), Mike Honda (D), Zoe Lofgren (D), Sam Farr (D), Dennis Cordossa (D), George Radanovich (R ), Jim Costa (D), Devin Nunes (R), Kevin McCarthy (R), Lois Capps (D), Elton Gallegly (R), Howard McKeown (R), David Greier (R), Brad Sherman (D), Howard L. Berman (D), Adam Schiff (D), Henry Waxman (D), Xavier Solis (D), Diane E. Watson (D), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D), Maxine Waters (D), Jane Harman (D), Laura Dickson (D), Grace Napolitano (D), Linda Sanchez (D), Edward Royce (R), Jerry Lewis (R), Gary Miller (R), Joe Baca (D), Ken Calvert (R), Mary Bono Mack (R), Dona Rohrabacher (R), Loretta Sanchez (D), John Campbell (R), Darrell Issa (R), Brian Bilbray (R), Rob Filner (D), Duncan Hunter (R), Susan A. Davis (D).
Source: Team Marketing Report, ESPN.com, Forbes.com and TheSportMarket.biz
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