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40: The Reckoning

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The Cable Bundle Isn't Making Much Money, but ESPN Is.

ESPN, of course, as we've detailed here before, powerful linear TV asset makes a lot of money from cable fees. But the cable fees are dropping. People are cutting the cord. And that means that the per and just to replay this for people currently, the way the economics of cable TV works is basically you negotiate a fee for a channel. It's paid not based on any kind of measurement. They don't they're not measuring it. You don't pay extra to see in my case, it's NBC Sports Bay Area,. You don't you it's just in your bill and everybody pays it.

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