ESPN definitely would receive an amount per month for each cable or satellite subscriber, but so would a fair number of other channels, and the cable and satellite companies would get their cut.
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I don’t know if they receive that much, but they do receive more than anybody else.
See post #28. They definitely receive an amount per month per subscriber, but so do many others. And Dish or whatever cable or satellite company would probably keep more than half of the monthly subscriber's bill. ESPN probably gets more like $0.67.
I worked for a company once that owned a cable TV company and it was paying cents per month to the channels: $0.10 to $0.25.