{"id":24929,"date":"2018-12-10T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T07:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24929"},"modified":"2018-12-10T07:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T07:22:31","slug":"netflix-reportedly-spent-80-million-to-keep-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=24929","title":{"rendered":"Netflix reportedly spent $80 million to keep &#8216;Friends&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">New York (CNN Business)<\/cite>&#8220;Friends&#8221; will be there for you on <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/13\/media\/ryan-murphy-netflix\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> through 2019, but the minor internet meltdown over a rumor that the show was leaving goes to the heart of the biggest question about Netflix&#8217;s short-term future: What happens if and when its competitors pull their most popular content from Netflix to make it exclusive to their own streaming services? <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">One show might not make a difference, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/08\/media\/disney-fourth-quarter-earnings\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Disney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/29\/media\/att-warnermedia-streaming\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">WarnerMedia<\/a>, both of which are launching streaming services next year, hold the key to a huge trove of content that lives on Netflix. WarnerMedia&#8217;s &#8220;Gilmore Girls&#8221; and &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; and Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy,&#8221; for instance, all had big fanbases when they lived on their respective networks and are now big draws for Netflix.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">And the situation for Netflix could potentially get worse. Comcast, the parent company of NBCUniversal, has not announced plans for a streaming service of its own &#8212; but it could, and then it could decide to pull its big draws, like &#8220;The Office&#8221; and &#8220;The Good Place.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (CNN Business)&#8221;Friends&#8221; will be there for you on Netflix through 2019, but the minor internet meltdown over a rumor that the show was leaving goes to the heart of the biggest question about Netflix&#8217;s short-term future: What happens if and when its competitors pull their most popular content from Netflix to make it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":24930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}