An N.B.A. star signs a rich deal using that room.
Last week, Mr. Moonves signed a rich deal to head CBS through 2011.
Yet there's nothing preventing Dish from disabling it completely when and if Disney and other network owners offer a sufficiently rich deal.
Many people suggest that Mr. Diller has the most to gain, but when USA Networks merged with Universal, Mr. Diller cut a rich deal for himself.
If he can get the bankruptcy judge to let him go ahead and auction the future TV rights now, he will have a chance to produce a very rich deal.
A net valuation of $4 billion would put the multiple for the network, which is the bulk of the company's value, at 23 times cash flow, which would make it a rich deal, according to Mr. Gerbrandt.
Among others that were, bewilderingly, no longer cataloged as tax exempt: the Museum Tower of the Museum of Modern Art, which has a rich deal on a private development; the Interchurch Center, which is part of Riverside Church in Morningside Heights; and the Church of the Heavenly Rest.
Sony Pictures Television, the studio that has an exclusive contract with Mr. Gilligan, announced on Wednesday that it had concluded a rich deal with CBS to produce a new series created by Mr. Gilligan, with a guarantee that it will go onto the network's prime-time schedule next fall.
In what has turned into an ugly public feud, some shareholders have opposed the plan, saying that while it would be a rich deal for the Malkins, it could expose other investors to the ups and downs of the stock market.
That Mr. Chernin has the luxury of using the old media to finance the new owes much to the unusually rich deal he made in 2009 when he left News Corporation, which owns both 20th Century Fox and the Fox television network, after spending two decades at the company.
Although the mayor's office initially said San Francisco needed to offer a rich deal to win out over bidders in Spain and Italy, the analyst, Harvey Rose, said recently that he had been unable to confirm that another city was competing with San Francisco to host the regatta.
