Comment on Nexstar's ABC affiliates will keep Jimmy Kimmel show off air for now
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 week agoBecause 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 1 week ago
Well I was thinking of it being an online-only thing. That should make it way cheaper.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 1 week ago
It also makes the ad time less valuable, and removes the income from affiliate licencing and retrans fees.