The Business of Television

8

Network and Streaming Licenses and Studio Co-production Agreements

Chapters 4 through 7 of this book have focused on the relationships between studios and various categories of rightsholders and service providers that sit up the chain from studios in the visual framework we’ve previously used to describe the television industry:

We now turn our attention to the next linkage in the chain, between studios and networks, as well as a further relationship not directly reflected in the visualization above: co-production agreements between two studios—one of which is often affiliated with the commissioning network—to jointly own, finance, and produce ...