CAIRN Dictionary entry overview: What does cairn mean? â¢ CAIRN (noun) The noun CAIRN has 2 senses: 1. a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path 2. small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland Familiarity information: CAIRN used as a noun is rare.
It was worth it to Disney to pay $1.1 billion a year to hang onto the Monday Night Football franchise for its ESPN network. The new ESPN crew at Monday Night Football probably won't have a fraction of the paychecks of their ABC predecessors, but they'll likely hang onto a significant share of their audience.
ESPNâs sports rights costs jumped from $2.8 billion in 2009 to $4.1 billion last year. But ESPN has locked up many of its deals through 2020, and the only major sports TV packages coming up for bid are Big Ten football and the NBA, which ESPN is expected to back up the brinks truck to secure.