5 Important Things We Learned Last Week from the Dish vs. ESPN Trial

1 - Time Warner Cable and Verizon are paying 19 cents a subscriber per month for Watch ESPN.  The fee is separate from what both pay to carry the ESPN network. (Media Post)

2 - Dish's eight-year carriage deal with ESPN expires in Sept. (Ad Week)

3- Dish is suing ESPN for $152 million in damges for violating its MFN provision, which ESPN seems to enforce capriciously . (Ad Week)

4- With an average charge of $5.26 per customer per month, ESPN stands to rake in as much as $6.23 billion in sub fees this year  (Ad Week)

5- ESPN’s current deal with Time Warner Cable calls for it to receive more than $5.40 a sub a month starting in the middle of this year; then passing the $7 mark in 2017; and closing in on the $7.50 mark the following year. The deal calls for an annual increase in the 6.5% range.  By the end of this decade, ESPN is set to collect just about $8 a sub a month. (Media Post)