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Koondel has all distribution rights, both domestic and international, to the new program. Sheindlin still wanted to go forward, so she called in former CBS chief licensing officer Scott Koondel, who left CBS in late 2018 and hung his own shingle, Exacta Entertainment, to help her sell her new show and possibly other projects.

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What’s more, all of the stations have now locked in what they planned to pay for Judge Judy repeats starting in 2021-22, and they did not budget to pay full price for original episodes. Because the stations currently airing Judge Judy are not all the same stations that bought the library, it is not simple to just extend the show.

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While many stations that aired Judge Judy bought the repeats in three-year deals at about 60% of the cost of Judy’s current license fees, according to sources, many nontraditional affiliates - such as The CW and MyNet affiliates and independent stations - that bought the repeats do not currently air Judge Judy. Acquiring the library appealed to stations because it was less expensive than Judge Judy, and it was going to be the only way viewers would get to see their favorite daytime judge. CBS stepped in and paid Sheindlin approximately $100 million, according to several sources, to reclaim the library.Īs part of that deal, Sheindlin agreed she would retire after the show’s 25th season in 2020-21 and that CBS Television Distribution would sell the library episodes to TV stations. At the final hour, though, CBS realized it needed to control the rights to the show it had produced and distributed since 1996. In 2017, several bidders emerged for the Judge Judy library, with offers in the $75 million to $85 million range. But with streaming coming online, industry watchers believed that the library did have value. At the time, it wasn’t clear that such episodes had value in the marketplace because no long-running syndicated strips had been able to monetize their libraries. Several years ago, Sheindlin negotiated with CBS for the rights to her library of some 5,000 back episodes. The answer is more complicated than it first seems.

So, if Sheindlin wanted to continue, why wouldn’t CBS Television Distribution just extend the show?

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