The network is actually paying the least amount this season, an estimated $350 million.

This network is paying you more money that anybody's ever seen.

Or are they something else, for which networks can pay less?

Maybe the networks can pay $500,000 and $1 million an episode.

The network has broadcast the games since 1982 and paid $1.7 billion last year for rights to continue doing so through 2002.

"Now that networks won't pay the full costs, international has suddenly become the first place you go to to make sense of your deficit."

The network paid more than $300 million for the right to present the Games.

Almost all television shows cost more to make than the networks pay for the right to show them.

The one network of which she is a member pays $3,000.

There must be a line in the sand beyond which a network won't pay.