If they buy 260 nights of movies, stations do not pay a license fee.

Most local stations, seeking profit margins of 35 to 50 percent, could never pay for such talent.

Some stations were still running it and paying through the nose for the privilege.

The filling station could pay for itself, and then some.

The stations pay from a few hundred dollars to $20,000.

The station now pays to have waste oil taken away.

Within four years the station had paid for itself from cash flow and was worth over 5 times its purchased price.

The station has installed cable television in 5 of the house's 17 rooms and pays the bill for the service (about $100 a month).

A foreign station would pay less for an American show that was shown at an off-peak time.

Three years ago the station paid roughly $2,000 for comparable movies, he noted.