> Unless I'm mistaken and the cable bundler services of Time Warner / Comcast pay big bucks to have CBS in their packages Yep, in the form of "retransmission f

> Unless I'm mistaken and the cable bundler services of Time Warner / Comcast pay big bucks to have CBS in their packages Yep, in the form of "retransmission fees" paid by the cable companies. CBS currently makes about 250M dollars a year from these fees, and they project that'll be up to 2B by 2020: http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/cbs-chief-raises-retransmission-revenue-estimate-and-says-aereos-no-threat/ http://www.deadline.com/2014/02/cbs-chief-raises-retransmiss... Of course that projection may be inflated for their own selfish reasons.