TheOffice: Why NBCUniversal is paying $500M to pull the hit from Netflix
on the service for all of 2019, is likely to want the sitcom exclusively for its own soon-to-launch service.
But the choice was not as simple as whether NBCU would continue to license the popular show, which aired on its broadcast network from 2005 to 2013, to Netflix or take it back for their still unnamed forthcoming service. Top brass at the company also had to weigh whether they were willing to forgo the millions of dollars that the show, winner of five Emmys, would fetch from third-party distributors.
Disney, meanwhile, has made clear that it doesn't plan to stay in business with Netflix given its own streaming ambitions. Now that the company has majority control of Hulu, that platform is likely to benefit from the pullback of Disney-owned ABC's programming from Netflix.
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