television rights
Screen airing permissions
Television rights are the legal permissions to broadcast content on television, typically purchased by networks or streaming services from content owners.
These rights are particularly valuable in sports, where networks pay billions for exclusive coverage of leagues, tournaments, and events.
The term also applies to adaptations—when a studio acquires television rights to a book, they're buying permission to develop it into a series.
The network secured television rights to the Olympics through 2032.
- cable TVWired broadcast subscription service
- bidding warCompeting offers driving prices up
- copyrightExclusive reproduction rights
- broadcastersThose who transmit programming
- exclusive dealAgreement with one party only
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- media rightslicensing deal, first refusal, derivative works, copyright, franchise
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