{"id":61019,"date":"2015-02-19T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/?p=61019"},"modified":"2015-02-19T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T23:54:15","slug":"hulu-acquires-exclusive-csi-svod-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/2015\/02\/hulu-acquires-exclusive-csi-svod-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Acquires Exclusive &#8216;CSI&#8217; SVOD Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hulu has signed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefutoncritic.com\/news\/2015\/02\/19\/hulu-acquires-exclusive-subscription-video-on-demand-rights-to-csi-crime-scene-investigation-373305\/20150219hulu01\/\">multi-year agreement<\/a> with CBS, which gives them exclusive subscription video on demand (SVOD) rights to more than 300 episodes of <I>CSI: Crime Scene Investigation<\/i>. This is the first time <I>CSI<\/I> has been licensed to an SVOD service, and fans with a Plus subscription will be able to watch earlier seasons of the show on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulu.com\/\">Hulu.com<\/a> starting in April. As the exclusive SVOD home to all episodes of <i>CSI<\/i>, Hulu will add full libraries of past seasons ahead of future series premieres.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The original series from the most successful franchise in television history has been licensed to the SVOD market for the first time,&#8221; said <b>Scott Koondel<\/b>, Chief Corporate Content Licensing Officer for CBS Corporation. &#8220;This agreement and previous deals with our partners at Hulu further validates how well CBS procedural dramas perform on subscription services. And, at a time when the CBS Television Network is getting ready to premiere the next generation of the <i>CSI<\/i> franchise with <i>CSI: Cyber<\/i>, it&#8217;s very exciting to make available all 14 seasons of the show that started it all to Hulu subscribers and <i>CSI&#8217;<\/i>s passionate fan base.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hulu has signed a multi-year agreement with CBS, which gives them exclusive subscription video on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2906],"tags":[3064,3599],"class_list":["post-61019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csi-lv","tag-cbs","tag-hulu"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rachel","author_link":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/author\/rachel\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/categories\/csi-lv\/\" rel=\"category tag\">CSI<\/a>","tag_info":"CSI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61019"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61034,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61019\/revisions\/61034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csifiles.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}