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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 1233123, member: 2524"] If they can capture in-market BTN subscriber rates of $0.90 per household per month in North Dakota (about 173k cable households, [url]http://www.tvb.org/media/file/Cable_UEs_by_State.pdf[/url]) simply by adding a hockey team, they'll be adding $1.9 million in annual revenue. I'm sure they would have to pay North Dakota less than $1 million to join the B1G in hockey. It would be a profitable move. But, the University of North Dakota is not AAU. And we're talking small money - after Fox takes half the BTN, the profits of maybe $500k spread among 14 B1G schools are about $35,000 per school. Unless they are really trying to build an athletic empire, why bother? [/QUOTE]