RTV 4500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mynetworktv, Ion Television, Media Rights Capital
9 Dec 2016
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Programming used to fill a station"s schedule, purchased for a license fee and distributed by a syndication company. Where most of the money is actually made in the long run, as a content owner. Series, specials, or movies, now also formats . Rights sold to stations or station groups for exclusive showing in a dma for a specific time period. Could watch for months on one network and still never see all episodes because the network doesn"t have all seasons. Programming that has already aired on the network and the rights are sold for it to air elsewhere. Now some cable shows are being shown on broadcast. Programming that is produced specifically for syndication (no prior run) Common examples include game shows, talk shows, and soap operas. Often, formats are syndicated and not sold as shows but as concepts . Prison break, originally an american show, became very popular in. Wipeout, abc made camp wipeout to be shows in argentina.
