Saban: Cartoons generate far more music royalties than hit sitcoms
Haim Saban · Power Rangers: Haim Saban · Mar 27, 2017 · at 14:26
Media mogul Haim Saban explains the economic model behind his early music business scoring animated television shows.
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“If you look at a sitcom there are musical stings, so they have cumulatively maybe two minutes of music, maybe three. But on a cartoon, you have wall-to-wall music, and because these collection agencies pay based on the number of minutes that air, you would make a lot more money from a music on, you know, a little-known cartoon than you would make on the Mary Tyler Moore show or the Cosby show. A lot more money on a cartoon.”
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