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on Wednesday September 18 2019, @10:06AM
from the obviously,-Sheldon-Cooper-was-the-better-negotiator dept.
from the obviously,-Sheldon-Cooper-was-the-better-negotiator dept.
Just one day after Netflix secured the streaming rights to Seinfeld in a deal reportedly worth more than $500 million, WarnerMedia’s HBO Max has gone one step further, acquiring the rights to The Big Bang Theory in a deal reportedly worth more than $1 billion.
The deal gives WarnerMedia’s HBO Max the exclusive domestic streaming rights for five years, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That means another streaming service could carry the show in global markets. The deal also extends the syndication deal between Warner Bros. Television and TBS through 2028.
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HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 18 2019, @02:38PM
Or, you know, do something with your life that doesn't involve laying on a couch passively consuming an AV stream...
$1B for 5 years of domestic streaming rights (to a population of 350M, with 54M subscribed... https://www.statista.com/statistics/329288/number-of-hbo-domestic-subscribers/ [statista.com] ) 200M per year, ~$4 per subscriber per year, for one show.
Last time I had HBO was when I bought a house where the previous owners had HBO and the cable company didn't get around to turning it off for 3 months... that was 1992, and I don't miss it at all. I guess I tried a free trial of HBO go once, watched about 2 shows and dropped it too.
But - for all the people bitching that CERN or NASA or your local animal shelters could use the money better, it's all about the numbers, baby... 54 million domestic subscribers @ $15/mo is nearly $10B per year, domestic. The people have spoken. If 54 million people would donate even $4 per year to your favorite cause (that's one Starbuck's latte, per year...) your cause, too, would get this kind of funding. Instead, they chose to send their money to the people who give them the Big Bang Bundle.
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