that amount is what he wants in the future from retransmission fees. They only make a quarter of that now. Who knows what the industry will be like 4 years from now and whether they'll be able to get that kind of money.Wait a minute! Moonves complains about Dish not carrying their commercials and how that is how the network makes its nut, but at the same time he said that the network received 1 BILLION dollars from carriage fees!!!!!! Holy CRAP!
Plus, they make many billions more than that in advertising dollars from commercials which is why they are fighting so hard. Commercials are what pay for pretty much everything in the current system for OTA broadcasters.