A key issue at play in the National Football League’s now-settled labor dispute this past summer was the flood of cash from the league’s television contracts with ABC, CBS, ESPN, Fox, NBC, and DirecTVthat would fill NFL coffers once the standoff ended.
Some of that cash began to flow Thursday when the NFL and ESPN announced an eight-year rights extension to the sports network’s current license to televise Monday Night Football and produce related programming through 2021. The new deal will pay the NFL about $1.9 billion per year, a 63 percent increase over the value of its current deal, according to the Sports Business Journal.
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