Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 weeks agoRunning a national version of ABC would cost them tens of billions annually, and anger their affiliates, who they depend on.
Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 weeks agoRunning a national version of ABC would cost them tens of billions annually, and anger their affiliates, who they depend on.
realcaseyrollins 4 weeks ago
Billions? Why? It'd be online-only and be distributed through Hulu and Disney+. They already made streams for different genres on Disney+ so it truly can't be that expensive.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Because affiliates pay the networks a few billion a year. But even more juicy is the cable and satellite retransmission fee, which is paid to the individual stations and then a share is passed up to the network. Retrans fees are worth around $20bn a year.
realcaseyrollins 4 weeks ago
Well I was thinking of it being an online-only thing. That should make it way cheaper.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
It also makes the ad time less valuable, and removes the income from affiliate licencing and retrans fees.
natecox@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Plus it would be justification for that next price increase after this one.