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Phil Hochberg on revenue generation in Major League Baseball today ~\n\n"Well, interestingly, Major League Baseball is now suffering attendance losses over the past few years, but Major League Baseball is making more money than it ever had because of the media rights and everything . . . everything has just changed so much. It is no longer just radio. It is no longer radio and television. It is not radio, television and cable. It is the Internet. It is the streaming services. It is just everything."\n\nPhil Hochberg - Former Voice of the Redskins and Lawyer with host Andy Ockershausen in-studio interview\n\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThis is Our Town. This is Andy Ockershausen. In a conversation with not only a friend, but I would say a world known friend from doing his work as the public address announcer for so many of Washington sports teams that they could hear you all over the world because of the coverage.\n\tWelcome to Our Town, Phil Hochberg.\nPhil Hochberg:\tThank you Andy. Thank you very much.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd a local guy that made good.\nPhil Hochberg:\tWell, I don't know if I made good, the old Frank Sullivan line, the Frank Sullivan picture with the Boston Red Sox. He said, "I'm in the twilight of a mediocre career." So I don't know if made good is the right word, but, thanks a lot.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWell, I had a friend said that but a difference is, I'm in the top three of the mediocres, you know, so I can live with that. But Phil, you went to high school here at Wilson?\nWilson High School | American University | Syracuse | George Washington Law School | Federal Communications Commission Career Start\nPhil Hochberg:\tI did. I did.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd I had thought you had gone and switched to the University of Maryland, but you didn't.\nPhil Hochberg:\tNo. I went to Wilson and then one semester at American U, and then I transferred to Syracuse. Graduated from Syracuse, came back here, went to GW law school and began practicing law in 1965 with the FCC.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tTC or CC.\nPhil Hochberg:\tFCC.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThe Federal Trade?\nPhil Hochberg:\tThe Federal Communications Commission.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tOh, federal, I know it quite well.\nPhil Hochberg:\tYour friend Dick Wiley.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tOh yeah. We had a ton of friends on the FCC that was involved. Dean Burch.\nPhil Hochberg:\tI guess you did. Harry was a communications lawyer himself.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAbsolutely. But Phil, I had really never knew about you in those days because my very relationship with you has always been through the sports world, not through the legal world, but you've had quite a career in the legal world as both a rep and an adviser, correct, to leagues and sports teams?\nPracticing Law 54 Years | Member of Firm to Sole Practioner | NFL, NBA, NHL, Nascar\nPhil Hochberg:\tI have represented, and still do represent the National Football League, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League, NASCAR in a very limited area dealing with communications and cable, satellite, copyright, very limited.\n\tPeople ask me when I'm going to retire, been practicing now for 54 years, and I say that right now I'm looking at 2021 so that I can be able to say I've represented the National Hockey League for 50 years.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWow.\nPhil Hochberg:\tWhich is a pretty good relationship with the client.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWell, wait a minute. It's a good relationship anytime. That is great Phil. You obviously have delivered a service that they appreciate. It's been 50 years.\nPhil Hochberg:\tYeah. Yeah.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tBut you are representing them as a agent or representing them as a lawyer?\nPhil Hochberg:\tAs a lawyer representing the league.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThe league, right.\nPhil Hochberg:\tIn terms of regulatory and administrative issues and legislative issues affecting the National Hockey League and some of the other leagues too.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tBut you operate as a member of the firm. Correct?