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.
Measured by almost any standard, artistic or financial, Disney's acquisition is arguably one of the best things that CEO Bob Iger has ever done. Only the company's acquisition of Pixarâwhich the company bought in 2006 for about $8 billionâeven comes close and that's mostly thanks to home video sales. If you look at the simplest measure of value, Disney's share price, you can see some of the power of the Marvel deal.