[78-L] For old timey TV fans..slight 78RPM connection

[Julian Vein]

On 27/10/11 16:16, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Julian Vein<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk>
>> Can anyone explain when a filmed, rather than live, series is sold to a
>> TV company, what happens to the film after the airing? Have the company
>> the rights to show it in perpetuity or do what they will with it?
>> Julian Vein
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>
> Syndication to local stations is usually paid on a per-episode basis for
> a time period of a year or two, and the station can play the episodes as
> many times as they want during that time period.  For example, if there
> are 100 episodes and a station pays $5000 per episode, they run those
> episodes and make their money by selling local ads which might only
> bring in $2000 each airing.  So they don't make money until the third
> airing on their station.  When the contract is up, the tapes of the
> films go back (nobody syndicates the actual films anymore).
>
> There are many other types of contracts (usually secret) but this is the
> general business model.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
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Thanks Mike. Does this mean that when the films go back to the 
originator, they are kept by them? This would mean that they would end 
up with a warehouse full of the stuff and I can't imagine them being 
destroyed. This would seem to indicate that clean copies must still 
exist somewhere.

      Julian Vein