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| Friends |
If you don’t know what the TV show Friends is about by now, then where have you been for the past 18 years? Something Chandler would say. The show Friends has been my favorite show since I can remember. It aired on NBC from September 22, 1994 to May 6, 2004. Is an American sitcom that revolves around a group of friends, their lives, their loves and their laughs in Manhattan. The series was created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman and produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. It was promoted by NBC throughout America.
Friends received amazing reviews throughout its run, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms of all times. The series was an immediate hit from its debut and was also successful in their ratings, constantly ranking in the top 10 in the final primetime ratings. When the final episode aired, it was watched by 52 million American viewers making it the most watched episode of the decade.
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| Nick@Nite |
Nick at Nite is targeted to adults and/or adolescence audience with a roster of mostly live-action sitcom reruns. A few years back they began including more recent sitcoms and started airing sitcoms from the 1990s. They wanted the show Friends and in 2011, Warner Bros. decided to sell “Friends” to Nick at Nite in a shared opening with TBS starting in the fall of 2011. A deal that produced $200 million in license fees and advertising. Nick at Nite is paying about $500,000 an episode to air all 10 seasons after 6p.m. for a six-year term through the fall of 2017. Nick at Nite is also allowing Warner Bros. to create 30-second spots from the show and Warner will keep all of these advertising revenues.
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| tbs |
TBS’s contract is the opposite, is an extension of its ongoing deal for Friends reruns that was made in the fall of 2001. They renewed for the same six-year contract as Nick at Nite but will pay only $275,000 an episode because Warner is limiting its runs before 6p.m.
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| Friends |
One of the main reasons why the sitcom is still making the big bucks in pre-sales throughout 2017 is because when they were on air they were the most successful show all around and broadcasting networks want to maintain high ratings so they'll look for ways to keep that like airing reruns of effective shows. Warner has renewed “Friends” in syndication through December 2013, and since the series still has an audience, the studio could bring the sitcom back later in the decade for a third run, if they’d like to. In just syndication, the show has made $4 million an episode in cash license fees, for a total of $944 million. When advertising revenues from the syndication exchange spots get added in, the revenues expand to well over a billion dollars.
Friends was a complete success for Warner Bros being the best comedy cast of all time on TV Guide and even though the show had to come to an end in 2004, Warner Bros still manages to find ways to still make income until this day.
-Jess!
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