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You're still not understanding me. It is a set contract based on how many subscribers there are for a particular package that the channel is in.
Say tomorrow everyone decided to move to the Welcome Pack. ESPN is not in that package, so they would get no money.
IOW declining subscriptions = smaller revenues and lower sales units, $$$$ and profits (and the head fool in charge and his conspiracy of fools thinks overcharging and additional fees for things included everywhere else and a few maybe poorly thought out premium and egregiously priced bundles and add on bundles, channels and POV events and the Sling nobody wants will right the surely sinking ship of fools ...........
.Sure sounds like a classic business case study of a failing business model no longer focused on the basics like
HD picture quality for one they never focused on anyway to make Dish TV even plausible at a mid premium or premium tier .....
Hey ......but what do I know I just managed at multi nationals OEM's proper & worked with (and in and out of) acquisitions and owned subsidiaries for a few decades *also some good we absorbed or sold and some still around and successful inducing
Dunlop Tire (DunlopTyre) NA that may be divested and maybe on its own again soon and some not so good and sold ...some in the failing like EU and rust belt that included steel ,plastics ,composites ,films and petrochemicals and oil pipelines in the S.W.outside of our core businesses and some of our plants around the word and here ...BTW thanks in no part to poor energy and (other) policy's but we never lost focus on the basics and are still a profitable most admired in category (s) world leader (over 100 yrs ) now at the one I was at for maybe 28 yrs and gave me a decent retirement , parachute,the usual real nice executive trinkets and (other) along with invaluable experience and never ending no expense spared training