Each club's share of television revenue is $17 million per year for the next three years.
The television revenue was generally enough to cover the player costs.
Television revenues accounted for nearly $1 billion of the total.
A major factor to the competition's success comes from television revenue.
He noted, for example, that five years ago, international capital made up 25 percent of the tour's television revenues.
So what if Washington cannot rake in television revenue this season?
The team therefore qualified for some of the sport's television revenues in 2001.
Final television revenues were down by about 20%, a smaller drop than the networks had expected.
With television revenues taking up a big chunk, the difference between 57 and 51.8 percent is roughly $85 million.
Any money from increasing national television revenue "is going to be gravy," he said.
