Board Thread:Young Justice News/@comment-47881-20130128165351/@comment-1895174-20130130030338

Zergrinch wrote:

Just because they have the same owner (Time Warner) does not mean both sides don't charge transfer prices to each other.

Consider this: if someone else other than Cartoon Network were running a Young Justice show, you bet your britches DC is going to charge licensing fees. Just because CN is an affiliate doesn't mean DC isn't going to charge those fees nonetheless.

As I said, Time Warner is running CN and DC separately. If you were a CN executive, your performance would be evaluated based on CN's profitability. Same goes for DC execs. Therefore, DC execs will not be willing to let CN use the characters for free, even if CN were a sister company!

As for Arrow and Smallville airing on CW, that doesn't mean no transfer pricing is going on. As corporate siblings, CW maybe has first dibs on use of DC characters for live-action TV adaptations. It doesn't mean they get it for free.

Nothing you just said is true.

If you're a channel other than Cartoon Network running Young Justice, you're either doing two things:
 * 1) Showing it in syndication, to which you would be paying Time Warner a licensing fee if you're not a subsidiary
 * 2) Completely fictitious, since there's no reason for Time Warner to debut a show that has to be licensed off (along with a large cut of the ad and merchandising revenue) when they already own several different channels.

And no, the DC Execs have no say in who gets to air shows based on their characters. That's the price they pay for being part of a large corporation. It's the same price Marvel had to pay when Disney bought them and Specatcular Spider-Man was cancelled, and it's the same price LucasFilm is paying now that Disney owns them as well and The Clone Wars has to leave Cartoon Network.

Given the option, do you think LucasFilm would have that program air on Cartoon Network, the #1-rated network in their target age group, or on Disney XD, a channel a large section of the country doesn't even get? If you say something other than the former, you're out of your mind.

If DC Execs want to have a say in what network airs their programs, they can make that known either by contacting the Warner Bros. execs - their bosses - directly, or through whatever much stock they have in Time Warner. But you better believe the only options on the table are networks Time Warner has a stake in.