5/26/2023 0 Comments Star wars spike tv![]() But a year later, Spike threw off all restraints to grab “CSI: NY” reruns, anteing up $1.9 million an episode for the privilege. Two years ago, Spike dropped the ball, allowing A&E to claw its way ahead of all other bidders to capture the rights to “CSI: Miami” for what now looks like a bargain price of $1.02 million an hour. When King World, a sister company of Spike, opened the cable marketplace for reruns of “CSI” four years ago, Spike forked over a then-record sum for an off-network hour, $1.6 million an episode. Five years ago, Spike, then known as TNN (the National Network), coughed up a staggering $364 million for the rights to reruns of three “Star Trek” series - “Next Generation,” “Deep Space Nine” and “Voyager” - plus the first five “Star Trek” theatrical movies. 10 was the second highest-rated program on all of ad-supported cable for the week ended Sunday.īut paying big bucks for a marquee property is not new to the network. ![]() USA outbid Spike for the rights to “Raw” and started running it Oct. Spike’s aggressiveness in nailing “Star Wars” was fueled in part by its need to make up Nielsen ground in the future for the loss of World Wrestling Entertainment’s “WWE Raw,” a guaranteed ratings winner every Monday nights for two hours. Spike will get them and the original three pics in April 2008. Two more recent “Star Wars” pics - “Attack of the Clones” (2002) and “The Phantom Menace” (1999) - have had runs on Fox but have never shown up on cable before. ![]() That’s the earliest window a cable net has ever landed to a “Star Wars” movie the first five titles began their TV life on the Fox Network. The blockbuster in the deal was “Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith,” which Spike will get in the first network window in April 2008.
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