Cable operators can now charge what they want for a basic package of services that frequently includes ESPN.

Those accounts include ESPN and Nike.

Clients include Data General, ESPN, Elle magazine and the Freedom Forum.

Media press and coverage includes ESPN, The Washington Post, and USA Today.

These include the bookseller Amazon.com, ESPN, ABC News and Nasdaq.

But Comcast would eliminate itself from any role if it succeeds in acquiring the Walt Disney Company, whose subsidiaries include ESPN.

Operating income at the cable unit, which includes ESPN, increased to $584 million, from $523 million.

A cable system that did not include ESPN, MTV and CNN would have trouble retaining a lot of its customers.

Most of Disney's advertising revenue is generated by the company's media networks unit, which includes ABC and ESPN, as well as local television and radio stations.

Their newest work has included Burger King, ESPN, Trident, and Reebok.