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.
What's interesting is that the channel that adds the highest cost by far to cable subscribers' monthly bills is not even among the top 15 most popular networks. According to a Chicago Tribune report last year, ESPN charges distributors an average of $7.21 per month per subscriber, plus another $.90 for ESPN2.