Updated below: Variety has the rev share numbers, below…
And while the rest of us were sleeping, Fox has done a precedent-setting deal with its 187 affiliates on new media revenue share, reports BW. The deal would allow stations to get a portion of the extra revenues for up to a year after they air a program. The precise percentage could not be learned, the story says.
The Fox pact was hammered out over the past several months by Fox Television President Ed Wilson and Brian Brady, chairman of the Fox affiliates and president of Northwest Broadcasting Corp., which owns several stations in Washington State, Oregon, and New York.
In January, Fox did a VOD deal with DirecTV for its shows: The shows would be available for 99 cents to on-demand customers of DirecTV, the satellite service partly owned by News Corp. Now, the story says, Comcast is negotiating with Fox for a similar arrangement. This should give ABC, NBC, CBS and other networks something to work on now.
Updated: Variety.com: This is a six year pact. Fox this year will be able to repurpose 60% of its primetime programming on “non-linear” platforms, followed by 80% next year and a full 100% in year three of the deal. Affiliates will receive 12.5% of the revenue from any program that runs on a non-linear platform after its primetime broadcast run, and 25% of revenue from shows that hit the non-linear world before airing on the network.
Some specifics of the deal — such as whether programming will show up on individual stations’ websites — still need to be ironed out.|
WSJ: While Fox has fallen behind rivals when it comes to offering programs online, it may have a leg up in the long run. Both NBC and ABC, along with CBS, have moved quickly onto the Internet, but now have to squelch a growing rebellion among affiliates, many of which are furious they aren’t getting a cut of revenue from these new ventures.
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