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MIAMI HEAT
EASTERN CONFERENCE

GENERAL

Stadium: American Airlines Arena
Capacity: 19,600
Built: 1999 / $194 M USD
Head office: 1 SE Third Ave., Suite 2300, Miami, FL 33131
Phone: (305) 577-HEAT
Fax:
Website: www.heat.com OR www.nba.com/heat
E-Mail:
Radio flagship: 610 WIOD-AM
Television (Regional):
Corporate partners/sponsors: American Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, Big Ox, Hewlett-Packard, Kia, PepsiCo.
Mascot: Burnie.
Established: 1988
Franchise ancestry: Expansion

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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


MIAMI MARKET

MARKET SIZE

City Population: 386,619
Metropolitan Area Population: 3,876,380 (Miami-Fort Lauderdale)
Greater Metro Area Population: 5,413,212 (Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach)
City size ranking: #46 in US / #27 in NBA
Metro area size ranking: #12 in US / #15 in NBA
Greater Metro area size ranking: #7 in US / #10 in NBA
Designated Market Area (DMA): 1,546,920 TV homes / 1.352% of US
DMA ranking: #16 in US / #17 in North America / #17 in NBA
Source: Nielsen 2008, US Census Bureau 2005 and 2007

FRANCHISE FINANCIALS

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OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Owner: Mickey Arison
Acquisition date/price: 1988 / $33 M USD
General Manager: Pat Riley
Head Coach: Erik Spoelstra
Stadium: Public / owned and operated by Miami-Dade County
Concessions: Levy Restaurants

MARKET ECONOMICS

Economic Description: Port city; global city and “Gamma world city”; finance, commerce, media, entertainment, arts and international trade, tourism.
Major companies: Major companies – Alienware, Arrow Air, Bacardi, Benihana, Burger King, Celebrity Cruises, Carnival Cruises, CompUSA, Fizber.com, Norwegian Cruise Lines, Perry Ellis International, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, Ryder Systems, Seabourne Cruise Lines, TeleFutura, Telemundo, Univision; Miami also serves as Latin American headquarters for companies such as AIG,. American Airlines, Cisco Systems, Exxon, Disney, FedEx, Microsoft, Oracle, SBC Communications, Sony, VISA International.
City per capita income (ranking): $15,128 USD (#28 NBA).
Metro area per capita income (ranking): $43,001 (#37 US / #13 NBA)
State per capita income (ranking): $36,720 (#21 US / tied #13 NBA)

MARKET DEMOGRAPHICS

Ethnicity (City of Miami): Race – White 66.6%, Black 22.3%, Other 10%; Hispanic of any race: 80.8%; Origins – Cuban 34.1%, 5.6% Nicaraguan, 5.5% Haitian, 3.3% Honduran, 1.7% Dominican.
Language: Approximately 18% English; 80% Spanish.
Median Age: 38 years.
Political Leadership: Mayor of Miami – Manny Diaz (Independent); Governor of Florida – Charlie Crist (R); U.S. Senators – Bill Nelson (D), Mel Martinez (R); U.S. Representatives – 14 Republican, 11 Democrat: Jeff Miller (R), Allen Boyd (D), Corrine Brown (D), Ander Crenshaw (R ), Ginny Brown-Waite (R), Cliff Stearns (R ), John L. Mica (R), Alan Grayson (D), Gus Bilirakis (R), Bill Young (R), Katherine Castor (D), Adam H. Putnam (R), Vern Buchanan (R ), Connie Mack, IV (R), Bill Posey (D), Tom Rooney (R), Kendrick B. Meek (D), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R), Robert Wexler (D), Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D), Lincoln Dizz-Balart (R), Ron Klein (D), Alcee Hastings (D), Suzanne Kosmas (D), Mario Dizz-Balart (R).

Source: Team Marketing Report, ESPN.com, Forbes.com and TheSportMarket.biz