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Input: Sony Pictures Television 
  
 “Seinfeld” is about to become master of a whole new domain: the Internet. 
  
 Sony Pictures Television, a unit of Sony Corp., is in advanced talks to sell reruns of the hit 1990s NBC sitcom to an online video service, and expects to have a deal wrapped up in the next few weeks, people familiar with the situation said. 
  
 Among the bidders chasing the rights to the “show about nothing” are Hulu, Amazon and Yahoo. The deal could fetch a price well north of half a million dollars per episode, the people said. There are 180 Seinfeld episodes. 
  
 Netflix, which last year took a hard look at “Seinfeld,” is taking a pass on the show, a person familiar with the matter said. 
  
 Reruns of “Seinfeld have been on local TV stations and the cable channel TBS for years, but the buyers believe it has potential to continue that run for another several years on the Web. There, it could hold appeal for a generation of cord-cutters who can’t catch Seinfeld episodes on cable, and will allow users to search for their favorite episodes on-demand. 
  
 Landing the online video rights could elevate the stature of Hulu, Amazon and Yahoo, all of whom are in the large shadow of Netflix. 
  
 When Netflix acquired “Friends” last year from Warner Bros., it paid more than $500,000 per-episode, a person with knowledge of the deal said. Sony is seeking a higher price than what Warner Bros. received for “Friends.” 
  
 The price will depend, in part, on the length of the deal. The “Friends” agreement with Netflix runs for four years, which may be too short for some of the “Seinfeld” bidders. One suitor said a price tag higher than “Friends” doesn’t make sense if the contract is for less than ten years. 
  
 An agreement with an online video service would not mean the end of “Seinfeld” repeats on other outlets. “Friends” remains in heavy rotation on TBS even though Netflix has the rights and does not have commercials. Despite the addition of “Friends” to Netflix, ratings for the reruns on TBS have held steady. 
  
 Both Hulu and Amazon have been aggressive in acquiring content as they compete against Netflix. Hulu, which is owned by Walt Disney Co., Comcast Corp. and 21st Century Fox, recently bought reruns of the long-running CBS hit “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.” Amazon struck a deal with HBO last year for rights to many of its shows including “The Sopranos” and “Girls.” 
  
 Yahoo has been less active on the acquisition front, but has recently been making deals in an effort to make a splash. Besides an agreement with TV news personality Katie Couric, it also is buying new episodes of the cult hit “Community” that is produced by Sony and used to air on NBC. 
  
 Sony has long held distribution rights for “Seinfeld,” but the majority of the revenue from a sale will go to Time Warner Inc.’s Warner Bros., which acquired “Seinfeld” producer Castle Rock Entertainment as part of its 1996 purchase of Turner Broadcasting System. 
  
 “Seinfeld” creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David are also profit participants in the show, which Warner Bros. said in 2010 had generated $2.7 billion in syndication revenue. 
  
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  ||||| “Seinfeld” is the latest vintage TV series poised to generate renewed syndication profits through an SVOD sale. 
  
 Sony Pictures TV, which handles distribution of the Castle Rock TV-produced sitcom, is in the process of shopping the rights to digital buyers, with Hulu and Amazon said to be among the suitors. The NBC hit has had limited exposure online through airings on Sony’s Crackle, which is ad supported and only has a handful of episodes available at any given time. 
  
 The Wall Street Journal noted Friday that Sony is aiming for the “Seinfeld” sale price to top the estimated $500,000 per episode that Netflix paid last year for rights to another NBC comedy classic, “Friends.” Details on the sale are still sketchy but it is expected to be the entire library of 172 episodes, which ran on NBC from 1989 through 1998. 
  
 “Seinfeld” hit the SVOD auction block just after CBS concluded a surprisingly rich deal with Hulu for the rights to past and future seasons of “CSI.” That deal coupled with Netflix’s purchase of “Friends” has spurred Hollywood’s majors to more aggressively shop shows that are outside the serialized drama milieu that has driven the growth of Netflix and other SVOD players. 
  
 “Seinfeld” was a major hit for local TV stations in the late 1990s after the show bowed in traditional Monday-Friday syndication. The show was so successful that a few years later, TV stations wound up paying more to renew the rerun rights than they did in the first round of dealmaking. 
  
 The show also set a then-record for an off-network comedy sale to cable in a $1 million per episode deal with TBS, where “Seinfeld” reruns have been a mainstay since 2002. 
  
 By some estimates, “Seinfeld” has generated as much as $3 billion in syndication revenue since 1995. Warner Bros., which acquired Castle Rock as part of its 1996 Turner Broadcasting System acquisition, reaps most of the rewards, but Sony Pictures TV has claimed a good chunk of the “Seinfeld” windfall through a distribution deal that the studio cut with Castle Rock prior to Time Warner-TBS merger. |||||
Output:
Seinfeld is about to strike it rich again. The Wall Street Journal reports that suitors are lining up to acquire the streaming rights in a deal that could exceed $100 million. Netflix has dropped out of the running, reports the Journal, which says that Amazon, Hulu, and Yahoo are the leaders to wrap up a deal in the next few weeks. Friends recently got $500,000 an episode from Netflix, and Seinfeld will likely go higher. The deal is expected to encompass all 180 episodes. Variety notes that this an ideal time for Seinfeld to be on the market, given the Friends deal and another lucrative one in which Hulu scooped up CSI.