Administrative jobs would go and if Bristol had to survive on the central income for Championship clubs, promotion would become a pipe dream.
The BBC's offer was less than Sky's, made just before the government announced that the corporation would have to pay the £650m it costs to supply pensioners over the age of 75 with a free television licence, a sum that is 20% of its central income.
Asked about the lower-league clubs' desire for a more equitable share of central income, Topping said: "We discussed that at length.
By comparing the simulated and actual measures of income inequality, we may verify the importance of central income determinants, examine model fits and test the relevance of regional variation.
Any drop in traffic would be a concern, since the canal is a key income generator and central to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's plans for an economic recovery.
Falling returns on government bonds mean central banks' income will dwindle.
But England's "super league" is built on equity of the central television income.
The former was most apparent in Tropical and South Latin America and Eastern Europe; and the latter, in Central Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and high-income North America.
This was an economic boon for low-income farmers in dry Central Anatolia, whose income tripled, or even quadrupled, through the introduction of irrigation.
"A strong marketing function is central to achieving income targets, and the 2,500 people who work here rely on that income for their jobs," says Russ Langley, director of marketing at the University of Derby.
