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Why? Why should they have gotten priority rights? I don't think any network gets perpetual rights, so why should pbs?
by chrismcb 4y ago
Why? Why should they have gotten priority rights? I don't think any network gets perpetual rights, so why should pbs?
- Retric 4y agoSome do, Saturday Night Live is a similarly long running and prolific show owned by NBC. As to why PBS should have negotiated, they where getting well over 100 new 1 hour episodes per year as PBS was also running a lot of reruns. I am not saying very young kids don’t deserve that much new content but PBS would have been better off owning fewer episodes they could rerun than paying for that deluge and then also paying to rerun episodes. It's one thing not to negotiate after year one, but by year 30?
- 1123581321 4y agoIn which year should they have renegotiated and how much of a premium should they have paid for total ownership? I think your argument is predicated on PBS being able to read the future and their partner being able to lose more control without the product suffering.