CBS is buying Australian commercial TV's perennial ratings doormat Network 10 (which is often beaten in the ratings by pubcaster ABC--as in Australian Broadcasting Corporation) for an undisclosed amount (the Eye already owned one-third of Ten's digital sister channel Eleven, the current home of first-run episodes of the soap "Neighbours," a move that some believe has made the show less popular in its home country)--CBS says it will launch CBS All Access in Australia to compete with Netflix, Amazon and Nine Network and Fairfax's Stan, but has to reconcile the fact that Ten owes the Eye almost A$850M in license fees for programming:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ten-network-m-a-cbs-corp-idUSKCN1B8004 Until now, it was presumed that Lachlan Murdoch, one of Rupert's sons, and the owner of WIN, Ten's biggest affiliate owner, were going to co-purchase the net--if government regulations that kept them from buying the net were changed. That's been avoided, but one wonders how CBS is going to handle that big programming bill (and, like so many foreign countries, home-produced reality shows have replaced American imports as the ratings champs). Here are all of the CBS-owned programs airing tomorrow, Aug. 29, (which it already is in Australia) on Ten and sister channels Eleven and One: TEN: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert CBS This Morning Entertainment Tonight The Bold and the Beautiful Dr. Phil Judge Judy NCIS NCIS LA ("Hawaii Five-O"--the reboot--and "Blue Bloods" also air in prime time, among others) ELEVEN: King of Queens (CBS owns foreign syndication) Becker Everybody Loves Raymond Fraiser Touched by an Angel The Millers The Good Wife The Late Late Show with James Corden ONE: Jake and the Fatman Nash Bridges The Doctors (the current daytime talk show) Star Trek: TNG Hogan's Heroes CSI Cyber Matlock Scorpion 48 Hours And oh yes--I thought Netflix owned the foreign rights to "Star Trek: Discovery." -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
