CBS reportedly paid more than $ 7 million for the rights to broadcast Oprah Winfrey’s highly anticipated narrative interview with Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.
The two-hour interview, which airs Sunday at 8 p.m., cost the network a pretty penny – likely somewhere 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 in international markets.
A Sussexes’ spokesman told the Journal they had not been paid for the interview.
In an excerpt from the interview teased on ‘CBS This Morning’ on Friday, Markle tells Winfrey that she feels ‘liberated’ to speak for herself after declining the TV host’s initial request for ‘not’ was allowed to talk to her then.
The special is the couple’s first televised interview since they left Buckingham Palace abruptly last year.