Who owns Madison Square Garden?
Madison Square Garden is owned by MSG Entertainment (the United States, NYSE: MSGE).[1]
Evidence: Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-12, SEC EDGAR, 12 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Live & sport › Live events & ticketing
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: MSGE
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Madison Square Garden
Madison Square Garden, also called the Garden, is the Manhattan arena between 31st and 33rd Streets and Seventh and Eighth Avenues; its current building opened on 11 February 1968. MSG Entertainment owns the complex, the platform it is built on and the development rights, and it seats up to about 21,000 for entertainment and sporting events. The Knicks and Rangers are required to play home games there under 35-year licence agreements running through 2055.
What MSG Entertainment's annual report says about Madison Square Garden
Sentences about Madison Square Garden from MSG Entertainment's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Our value proposition is further strengthened by our sponsorship sales representation agreements with Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. (together with its subsidiaries, as applicable, "MSG Sports") which enables us to deliver broad-based marketing platforms that combine our assets with MSG Sports' professional sports brands.
We also offer our partners expanded reach through outdoor signage around the Madison Square Garden Complex (as defined below) and Pennsylvania Station ("Penn Station"), a major commuter hub in Manhattan.
All of these live events are held at the Company's venues: The Garden, the Infosys Theater at Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, the Beacon Theatre, and The Chicago Theatre.
How often MSG Entertainment names Madison Square Garden in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Madison Square Garden
- Current owner MSG Entertainment [1] verified
Where Madison Square Garden sits in MSG Entertainment
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by MSG Entertainment
MSG Entertainment controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
Other brands in live events & ticketing, and who owns them
The 35 brands in live events & ticketing on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is CTS Eventim, with 9; MSG Entertainment has 5.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Eventim Apollo | CTS Eventim | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Casino de Monte-Carlo | Monte-Carlo SBM | 🇲🇨 Monaco |
| Playdium | Cineplex | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| KCON | CJ ENM | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Live Nation Concerts | Live Nation | 🇺🇸 United States |
| AMF | Lucky Strike Entertainment | 🇺🇸 United States |
| The Battery Atlanta | Atlanta Braves Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Signal Iduna Park | Borussia Dortmund KGaA | 🇩🇪 Germany |
About the owner: MSG Entertainment
MSG Entertainment is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: MSGE.
Madison Square Garden Entertainment is a Nevada corporation that runs five live-entertainment venues in two cities: the Garden, the Infosys Theater, Radio City Music Hall and the Beacon Theatre in New York, and the Chicago Theatre. Sphere Entertainment distributed about 67 per cent of its shares to stockholders on 20 April 2023 and has since sold the rest, so it is no longer part of Sphere. In fiscal 2026 it hosted about 6.4 million guests at nearly 960 events. The Knicks and Rangers are its tenants, not its teams: they belong to MSG Sports.
MSG Entertainment: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Madison Square Garden and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Madison Square Garden is not one of them.
- 20th Century Studios — Disney 🇺🇸
- AMC — AMC Networks 🇺🇸
- AMC Theatres — AMC Theatres 🇺🇸
- AMF — Lucky Strike Entertainment 🇺🇸
- Adventure Island — United Parks 🇺🇸
- Antenna TV — Nexstar 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Madison Square Garden?
The parent company of Madison Square Garden is MSG Entertainment, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Madison Square Garden American?
Yes. Madison Square Garden originated in the United States and its owner, MSG Entertainment, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Madison Square Garden still owned by MSG Entertainment?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, Madison Square Garden is still owned by MSG Entertainment. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-12 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 12 August 2026; retrieved 2 October 2026.
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