The cast of the Emmy-winning"Seinfeld" show pose with the Emmys they won for Outstanding Comedy Series on September 19, 1993 in Pasadena, CA. From left to right: Michael Richards, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jason Alexander.Don't yell"GET OUT," at us, we're just reporting the news: Netflix just acquired the global streaming rights to.
Netflix won the bidding war to stream the sitcom over the other major platforms, including Hulu, Amazon and NBCUniversal. It's a bigger blow to NBCUniversal, consideringis one of NBC's biggest sitcoms and would have been a perfect patch for the peacock networks new streaming platform, set to debut in 2020.Seinfeld
–secures the sitcom to stream exclusively on Netflix, both domestically and in foreign markets, for five years starting in 2021. Netflix, who largely created the streaming game, hasn't had a lot of wins as of late, what with other companies getting into the streaming business. The top three streamers, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon, used to control the vast share of streamed sitcoms, with Netflix spending vast sums of money to make it the home of binge-TV viewing. But seeing potential—and likely lost revenue–other companies are getting into the mix as well, primarily Disney, HBO and NBC.
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