Today's Number: 4.4 billion
The amount in dollars American football's NFL will earn in TV fees over the next four years. Of the terrestial networks, deals have been made with NBC, ABC and Fox. CBS was outbid and will not show NFL games which it has been screening regularly since 1956.
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