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Message: [QUOTE="MrPogi, post: 75375, member: 5542"]My take on the editor's note: Um, ESPN is the biggest single part of your pay TV bill, at about $4 per subscriber, whether you watch it or not. And they make it almost impossible for you to NOT pay them - their contracts force providers to include ESPN with all their most popular packages. So, even if a provider came up with a package that doesn't include ESPN, if it were to prove popular, the contract requires the providers to then include ESPN in that package. Mobsters have a term for this: <EXTORTION>. ESPN will then take all that extorted money and buy the rights to all sports. The Justice Department has a term for a business that controls an entire market: <MONOPOLY>. (Too bad they don't enforce these rules anymore.)ESPN has plenty of ca$h. "Lean times" at ESPN, my @$$. Maybe E$PN ought to subsidize 3D TV makers?[/QUOTE]