"We control … $6 million on one night and $15 million another. If it's quality programming, it doesn't matter to me how it comes. If a promoter comes to me and says, 'I can't get this guy on Showtime or HBO, can you put him on in L.A. in October?' No problem. No one can pay what we're paying in rights fees."

Source: Los Angeles Times May 10, 2018 23:26 UTC