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.
Disney will pay about half in cash and half in stock, issuing 40 million Disney shares in the transaction. The deal follows Disney's acquisitions of Pixar studios for $7.4bn in 2006 and Marvel comics for $4.2bn in 2009.