Plus it would be justification for that next price increase after this one.
Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now
realcaseyrollins 5 weeks agoBillions? 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.
natecox@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 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 5 weeks ago
Well I was thinking of it being an online-only thing. That should make it way cheaper.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
It also makes the ad time less valuable, and removes the income from affiliate licencing and retrans fees.