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Yep, for example, the majority of sitcoms on CBS are produced by Warner Bros., that is why past seasons are not on Paramount+.
Yep, for example, the majority of sitcoms on CBS are produced by Warner Bros., that is why past seasons are not on Paramount+.
They were paying WB big money for TBBT. They would never get the back end money from it.
What I am saying is Fox sold off most of their streamable properties( sports, cable channels and movie studios)..so obviously they have no interest in streaming..to call them independent streamers is laughable at best..considering they own a major tv network that has o/o stations in the majority of the top 25 tv markets...calling them independent is like saying the old ma bell telephone system was an independent tellco
Why not, there are a lot of corporations that own a lot of the old UHF type stations and those are considered independent ( no studio behind them).
From wiki-
Are they owned by one of the big 4 networks or another company? Affiliate deals doesn't not make them owned by a big corporation. There are not many stations owned by small independent companies. Most affiliates are owned by someone that owns multiple stations.From wiki-
Stations that are affiliated with networks such as The CW, MyNetworkTV or to a lesser degree, even Fox, may be considered to be quasi-independent stations as these networks mainly provide programming during primetime, with limited to no network-supplied content in other time periods.
Independent station - Wikipedia
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The big 3 would love to rid themselves of the affiliates are go direct to the consumer.
The Streaming era started awhile ago and is now in overdrive.
This will depend on the league deals and if they want to change how their games are shown. The networks/streamers can't do a thing if the leagues don't agree to changing the model.
It already has started, during Football Season I was able to switch to different games on Paramount+ that were shown on CBS, it really surprised me because I thought I could not do that.
Could you watch those games in the clear or do you need a cable subscription verification.
Paramount + actually is the big success story of the streaming services, gained 9 million subs in the 4th quarter, they are up to, global, 56 million already and 32 million in the states, if you average that out at $5 a sub ( some pay more-no commercials), that is $280 million a month, more then $3 billion a year.
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Clear, CBS All Access/Paramount+ does not need to verify, regular CBS app you do.
No, that wasn't what I was saying at all. My point was that Fox no longer has a production house to produce anything for themselves or to sell. The way that most of the broadcast network deals for show are written, the studio retains ownership of the content after it airs on the network. So they don't "own" much of their content which makes it very cost prohibitive to have a streaming service. As already pointed out, a company like Warner that produces content for their own networks as well as other networks ends up with the perpetual rights to a huge amount of programming which gives them a leg up on the others. This is one of the reasons that you have seen Netflix and Amazon move into the production business. By owning their content, they no longer get stuck paying huge fees to the studio.
Not vast, there are 129.93 million households in the United States, only 68 million of then subscribe to Traditional Pay TV, that number was 100 million in 2013, so 32 million have left Cable/Sat. Service in the last 8 years, predicted to lose another 10 in the next 3 years.
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