There’ll be a reason for the Bull repeats. Probably contra slots to advertise the Paramount+ service.
Pretty sure there’s an agreement with in regards to who gets those 60 Mins US stories, I think Nine gets first preference or something like that.
Someone may recall the details of how it works since they license the brand and format locally.
Nope… 10 own them first. They did a deal years back to sub license a certain number of stores per year. Not sure if that still applies.
If it does o wouldn’t be renewing it and begrudging none of access.
10 have aired the stories in the past. It’s happened.
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9 have perpetual rights to all 60 minutes content.
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How do you explain 10 using the content from the stories? They definitely did it in 2013 and have done so since then. They have perpetual rights to the brand not necessarily the stories given 10 have shown these in the past.
I believed that 9 have first right of refusal or something like that on all stories since they carry the brand locally. 10 might’ve just used/bought whatever was left for Revealed, mixed with some original local reports.
Can’t recall 10 using any 60 Minutes stories of late at all, I’ve seen Studio 10 use some CBS This Morning / CBS Sunday interviews for the show however.
Update:
Tuesday 7 September
07:30 pm The Project Presents 9/11: 20 Years On
08:30 pm The Cheap Seats
Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
09:30 pm Live: World Cup Qualifiers: AUS v VNM
12:30 am The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Adelaide, Perth
09:30 pm The Montreal Comedy Festival Rpt
10:25 pm The Project Rpt
11:25 pm The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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cmo is right. Ten has exclusive Australian broadcast rights to CBS 60 Minutes stories. This has been the case since the Nine cutbacks in the mid 2000s when Ten negotiated that program supply agreement that saw them pick up the Letterman show and Dr Phil. Ten has done deals with Nine in the past to sub licence US 60 Minutes stories.
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They can’t call it 60 minutes, which is why it gets repackaged by The Project.
Correct. Nine owns the rights to the 60 Minutes name.
We’d already established that. You asserted “9 have perpetual rights to all 60 minutes content”. An assertion that is incorrect.
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60 minutes content.
When the name is stripped away, it’s not 60 minutes content anymore.
Anyone have any idea when 10 last repackaged a 60 Mins US report under The Project?
Election last year? Although that might have been a Sunday Morning special they repackaged (with Obama).
You’ve missed your calling. With logic like that you should’ve been a politician. The point is Ten has content other than endless repeats of Bull they could cheaply repackage and put to air.
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But they make some money by selling it to Nine, whether Nine chooses to air it or not.
In the past they have sold a package of stories to Nine each year. Can’t recall the last time Nine’s 60 Minutes aired or used content from the CBS 60 Minutes so I’d guess any deal Nine had with Ten lapsed years ago and wasn’t renewed.
I doubt Ten’s audience would be interested in some of the hard edge US political and social stories produced by CBS 60 Minutes but there are environment, crime, technology and entertainment reports they could repackage as specials under The Project banner and put to air in the mid evening slots.
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Exactly - 10 could easily put together a news magazine program by getting The Project team to do some long-form features/interviews (or even airing longer versions of feature segments that have recently aired) and combining them with 1 or 2 US 60 Minutes reports each episode.
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Yes it was something like 20 stories per year and the rest they kept.
Overall the point was to use content they had available to repackage to replace Bull. it was just an idea. Anything is better than triple Bull repeats.
They could easily 40 episodes a year if they had two reports per year from every journalist that works for the network (make it part of the role description); Hugh, PVO and Lisa doing interviews and then 60 min US content to pad it out.
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