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The bar is charged by how many people it can seat. With DirecTV there are 2 rates. One for mom and pop and I don't know the actual count, but lets say 48 persons. Then another for everyone else no matter how many you seat.
Many bars remove space to fall into the "dive bar" rate.
The difference in price is huge. Not sure on the particulars, but the rate might be $290 for an MMA fight for the small bar and $1250 for the large one.
This is why only very large bars will do PPV and then sometimes very small ones will do it too. Everyone in the middle can't afford it.
The NFL, etc packages are the same way too and so is the "basic cable" packages.
Most providers offer a bounty for turning in a bar if they illegally get the fight. So many very closed bars might use their card from home to get the home rate of $60 for a fight and then close themselves to everyone but the most loyal, close knit clients.
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