>From what I can see, Zaslav should be directing his ire towards his own executives who made the deals with Netflix if he's not happy with the payment terms. It's not as though deficit financing is unusual in the TV industry!
Under the old network model, a TV network would only pay a licencing fee which represented a proportion of the overall cost of production. The remainder of the cost would be made up by the producer selling those rights globally and in separate windows to cable providers and streamers. Because Netflix generally asks for exclusivity, they pay a premium over the cost of production to the studio making the series. So a network like NBC might only pay 50% of the production cost of an episode of Manifest, Netflix is paying perhaps 125% of that cost. That removes a lot of the risk to a studio like Warners who might ordinarily be left with a dud should the network cancel the show after a few episodes (The downside of course is that a show that's a massive hit has no real upside beyond that original 25% profit. BTW, I'm making up these percentages). But this just feels like accounting. Adam On Sat, 10 Dec 2022, 13:21 'Bob Jersey' via TVorNotTV, < [email protected]> wrote: > Suddenly, sources tell Deadline, he's gotten his shorts in a bunch over > the way the streamer pays, f'rinstance, WB Television for content... even > delaying, they say, delivery of finished shows for weeks... > > https://deadline.com/2022/12/new-streaming-war-brewing-warner-bros-discovery-boss-david-zaslav-takes-aim-at-netflix-over-payment-terms-1235192453/ > (link) > B > > -- > 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]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/008e23a0-cb80-4663-b214-931256dd452an%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/008e23a0-cb80-4663-b214-931256dd452an%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAc%3D_XhcUJdy1cztZcPB_5bDjq7Z%2BjLe6%2BE--gxk3n6tw%40mail.gmail.com.
