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U.S. sports rights are estimated to be worth a total of $22.42 billion in 2019, about 44 percent of the total worldwide sports media market. [1] U.S. networks are willing to pay a significant amount of money for television sports contracts because it attracts large amounts of viewership; live sport broadcasts accounted for 44 of the 50 list of ...
This is a list of the largest sports contracts. These figures include signing bonuses but exclude options, buyouts , and the endorsement deals. This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing .
Meet the athletes who made their talent pay a king's ransom.
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However, ESPN started to integrate into ABC Sports once The Walt Disney Company purchased Capital Cities/ABC in 1996. During this time, ESPN and ABC began to jointly bid on sports broadcasting rights with ESPN airing and producing games for ABC under a time-buy agreement. This integration was fully completed in August 2006, when ABC fully ...
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An early example of a one-day contract was signed on August 24, 2006, by Jerry Rice with the San Francisco 49ers, his team from 1985 to 2000. The contract was for a symbolic amount of $1,985,806.49, which Rice did not in fact collect: the figure combined his debut season (1985), jersey number (80), retirement year (2006), and team (49ers). [1]