Apparently, Nine has a 2-year exclusivity agreement from when a season starts airing in Australia for WB shows, in which no Streaming or Pay TV would be able to get the rights until then. For example, Nine’s exclusivity for S12 of TBBT expires during October, as Nine started airing the season on that month in 2018. From that point, S12 would become available on Foxtel/Binge & Netflix. This was evidenced for S11, after Netflix got S1-10 from 1st July 2019, in which S11 didn’t became available until mid-October that year.
Also, 9Go! are now airing repeats of Young Sheldon from S2 on Wednesday nights, which commenced last week. Nine doesn’t have the rights for S1 anymore (they’re now on Foxtel/Binge), so when Nine’s 2-year exclusivity for that particular season of the show expires sometime during October, it would pop up on Foxtel/Binge from then.
While we’re on TBBT, there was an article or two some years back (not sure if it’s a TBBT / WB or across all TV distributors), which discussed how when FTA broadcasters are licenced runs of a (TBBT was the TV show in question), they’re allowed to encore/re-run the same run that day/night with no further subtraction to their rights/no extra charge. Same for if that episode/show/movie is encored/re-run in the same week.
(e.g.) TBBT ep airs at 7pm, that same one airs again later that same night at 10:30pm or a movie airs Sunday, then the following week that same movie airs but just on a different channel/time.
This example was also the exact same scenario when Seven acquired the WB output from Nine back in 2014 and aired TBBT on 7flix.
The aforementioned situation(s) can be seen occuring across multiple shows/movies on multiple networks on a day-to-day basis.
Wonder how American Idol is rating on 9Go!? @TV.Cynic Judging by the channel’s Thursday share from recent weeks not too well? They had been airing a movie repeat around the 9:20pm mark, so maybe that had been doing no better or worse and wanted to maximise their purchase of Idol?
Demographics though are probably the more crucial thing here and it’d be interesting to compare its timeslot in the key demos vs say 10 Peach, 7flix, 7mate, 10 Bold.
The early guide for next week has (in order) Quantum Leap, Sliders and Baywatch (former 7mate fare) weekdays (exception on Monday with The A-Team still airing once a week) in that 12-3pm zone.
They seem to want to air them rather than just keep exclusive for the Now BVOD service with Miami Vice airing late nights on GO! and The Rockford Files over on GEM.
