[Will88]

For every cable and satellite subscriber, ESPN receives $6.61 per month, or nearly $80.00 per year.

It’s built into your cable bill. And due to this racket, ESPN grosses over $7.3 billion per year.

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.

Some monthly cable or satellite packages that include a couple of ESPN channels are as low as $29.95 to $49.95. Hard to believe that ESPN would receive $6.61 from every subscriber's monthly bill.

[Moonman62]

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.