[Fmpro] Here's what happens when you have some clout

[James Ryan]

These boys know how to cut a deal.  I wonder how the composer for the show
is faring.

South Park Creators Get Ad Sharing Deal; Digital Rev Share and Online Studio
Formed 
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> By Rafat Ali 
> <http://www.imakenews.com/eletra/go.cfm?z=alirafat%2C30699%2Cb5kKCjgS%2C142479
> 9%2Cbb8Twgn>  - Sun 26 Aug 2007 10:06 PM PST
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> In what is being described as a new deal of its kind, Matt Stone and Trey
> Parker, the creators and executive producers of "South Park", have renewed
> their deal with Comedy Central (and owners Viacom), and includes some novel
> digital elements. The new joint venture involves millions (the NYT story
> <http://www.imakenews.com/eletra/go.cfm?z=alirafat%2C30699%2Cb5kKCjgS%2C170076
> 8%2Cbb8Twgn>  says $75 million) in up-front cash and a 50-50 split of ad
> revenues, and the network and the two creative partners have agreed to create
> a hub to spread "South Park"-related material across the Net, mobile
> platforms, and video games. The hub, called SouthParkStudios.com
> <http://www.imakenews.com/eletra/go.cfm?z=alirafat%2C30699%2Cb5kKCjgS%2C170076
> 9%2Cbb8Twgn> , will be housed in the show's animation studio in Culver City,
> CA, that is intended to be an incubator not only for new applications for
> characters the likes of Cartman, Kyle, Stan and Kenny, but for new comedy
> concepts that could one day mature into TV series of their own, the story
> says. 
> 
> The deal gives a three-year extension of the show and its creators' contracts
> through a 15th season, in the year 2011, and gives Stone and Parker sizable
> raises, both in their salaries and in their guaranteed advances against
> back-end profits from DVDs, merchandising, syndication and international
> sales.     
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