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Sky signs another co-exclusive deal, this time with NBCUniversal
6 Apr, 2021 05:25 AM
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Sky TV says it has signed a new, multi-year deal with NBCUniversal. Financial terms are undisclosed, but a now-familiar phrase features through the pay-TV broadcaster s NZX filing: co-exclusive - as also seen in Discovery and ViacomCBS deals with Sky over the past few months.
Read More Co-exclusive doesn t exist in the dictionary, but in the Sky context it means sharing some rights with other broadcasters or, increasingly, with a content-creator s own direct-to-the-consumer streaming service.
During a February conference call with analysts after Sky reported its first-half result, Sky chief executive Sophie Moloney said her company would still shoot for exclusive rights in some instances but was comfortable with co-exclusive content in others - which she said proved the value of partnering with Sky in the NZ market while also providing opportunitie
To mark the 20th and final season of
Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Foxtel, in collaboration with NBCUniversal International Networks, have announced a special pop-up channel.
A Kardashians pop-up channel (channel 128) will be live from Tuesday 9th March at 8am, and will run until Thursday 18th March, screening every episode of
Keeping Up With the Kardashians from Seasons 1- 19.
Stephanie Quinn, Foxtel Head of Content Partnerships, said: “We’re delighted to be working with our partners at NBCUniversal International Networks (NBCUIN) again to bring Foxtel customers this exclusive pop-up channel at no extra cost.
“There is no denying the impact the
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