CBS reportedly paid more than $ 7 million for the broadcast rights to Oprah Winfrey’s long-awaited revealing interview with Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.
The two-hour interview, which aired at 8 a.m. Sunday, cost the network a penny, probably between $ 7 million and $ 9 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.
CBS bought the lucrative rights (the network charges $ 325,000 for every 30 seconds of commercial time) from Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and can also license the interview to international markets.
A Sussex spokesman told the newspaper that they were not paid for the interview.
In an excerpt from the mock interview on Friday’s “CBS This Morning,” Markle tells Winfrey that she feels “liberated” to speak for herself after rejecting the TV presenter’s initial request because she wasn’t allowed to. ” talk “then.
The special is the couple’s first televised interview since they abruptly left Buckingham Palace last year.