A question for people who understand the TV business

A question for people who understand the TV business

: andrewducker; January 19th, 13:37

HBO have signed a 10-year exclusive deal with Universal.

Similarly Netflix and Disney have an exclusive deal.

Does this just cover paid-for streaming/Cable TV? Because it seems unlikely that Universal or Disney would want to lose either general broadcast TV showings, or their iTunes sales.

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andlosers

2013-01-19 04:26 pm (UTC)

It's for "over the top" content - effectively Internet streaming. So it doesn't touch "real" TV (as much as that's going to matter in 10 years) and probably doesn't touch iTunes downloads, where you pay on a per-show basis, although I don't know that for sure. HBO have a great streaming service - but you've got to be an HBO subscriber on cable TV to get access, more's the pity. I really hope they drop this.

The Disney deal is interesting because they own part of Hulu.

Edited at 2013-01-19 04:28 pm (UTC)

andrewducker

2013-01-19 06:02 pm (UTC)

I was hoping for some evidence that it only applies to streaming, as that would make sense to me.

I can't see HBO switching to direct streaming until they can make more from that than they do from selling to the cable providers. At the moment it doesn't add up for them:
http://www.techdirt.com/blog/innovation/articles/20120912/03400020357/math-says-hbo-shouldnt-go-direct-they-left-innovation-out-equation.shtml

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