04:189:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Franchising, Price Fixing, Prime Time Access Rule

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Communication and Informatio
• Course: 04:189:102
• Professor: Alptug

Document Summary

When the tv shows moves to domestic and international syndication, they get more lucrative. Syndication: off-network (reruns): allows production companies to make enormous profits with reruns of popular shows (friends, simpsons, first-run: usually refers to programs like game shows or talk shows (jeopardy) Networks and cable services work hard to attract the audiences and subscribers that net them a share of the billion in annual television advertising revenues: production. Networks, producers, and film studios spend fortunes creating programs that they hope will keep audiences coming back: distribution. Production companies have a variety of ways to get money from broadcasters or cable companies for their programs: syndication keeps shows going and going. Television programmers can lease exclusive rights to game shows, talk shows, and reruns of regular programs through syndication: types of syndication. Off-network syndication, or reruns, allows production companies to make enormous profits with reruns of popular shows.