You can read more about the financial reality at Disney now before engaging in such unrestrained optimism for the sordid, declining likes of ESPN as well.
ESPN is as old and tired a brand as Old Spice that despite whatever new marketing efforts, it still sucks. There is no future with ESPN other than via perhaps a sweetheart deal, and they don’t have a whole lot of money like the days of yores but for perhaps for a cheap date and that’s not the CFL’s interest in any more after the first sour deal from ESPN that we can see clearly did not get the proper scrutiny in the age of modern media by the CFL brass.