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Message: [QUOTE="whaler11, post: 1098326, member: 676"] Almost all sports networks get a disproportionate affiliate fee against what their ratings are. The BTN is already a perfect example of that. USA gets higher ratings than ESPN - one of them gets 6-7 times more in their fee - guess which one. While I'm being somewhat over the top - you can google affiliate fees and you can google ratings. If ratings drove affiliate fees the BTN wouldn't cost more within the footprint than networks that get 10 times the audience for Family Guy and Modern Family reruns. The BTN is going to get about $12 per household per year in NYC for a grand total of about 4 football games that unless Rutgers gets a lot better will be viewed in NYC by 1-2% of the market. The rest of the year you can measure the audience in 5 figures. The BTN's affiliate fee is already long disconnected from their ratings. [/QUOTE]