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Commitments and Contingencies
 12 Months Ended
Oct. 01, 2022
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies Commitments and Contingencies
Commitments
The Company has various contractual commitments for rights to sports, films and other programming, totaling approximately $75.7 billion, including approximately $2.6 billion for available programming as of October 1, 2022. The Company also has contractual commitments for the construction of two new cruise ships, creative talent and employment agreements and unrecognized tax benefits. Creative talent and employment agreements include obligations to actors, producers, sports, television and radio personalities and executives. Contractual commitments for sports programming rights, other programming rights and other commitments including cruise ships and creative talent are as follows:
Fiscal Year:
Sports Programming(1)
Other
Programming		OtherTotal
2023$10,783  $3,815  $2,891  $17,489  
20249,906  1,469  2,735  14,110  
202510,222  977  1,747  12,946  
20267,420  738  379  8,537  
20276,528  554  153  7,235  
Thereafter22,745  585  2,628  25,958  
$67,604  $8,138  $10,533  $86,275  
(1)Primarily relates to rights for NFL, college football (including bowl games and the College Football Playoff) and basketball, cricket, NBA, NHL, soccer, UFC, MLB, tennis, golf and Top Rank Boxing. Certain sports programming rights have payments that are variable based primarily on revenues and are not included in the table above. The Company has multi-year agreements to sublicense less than 5% of our sports right.
Legal Matters
The Company, together with, in some instances, certain of its directors and officers, is a defendant in various legal actions involving copyright, breach of contract and various other claims incident to the conduct of its businesses. Management does not believe that the Company has incurred a probable material loss by reason of any of those actions.