CBS paid more than $ 7 million for the rights to broadcast Oprah Winfrey’s long-awaited interview with Prince Harry and Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle.
The two-hour interview, scheduled to air at 8 pm on Sunday, cost the broadcaster good money – probably somewhere between $ 7 million and $ 9 million, the Wall Street Journal reported.
CBS bought the lucrative rights – the network is charging $ 325,000 every 30 seconds of commercial time – from Winfrey’s Harpo Productions and can also license the interview in international markets.
A Sussex spokesman told the Journal that they were not paid for the interview.
In an excerpt from the interview triggered on “CBS This Morning” Friday, Markle tells Winfrey that she feels “liberated” to speak for herself after having refused the TV presenter’s initial request because she was not “allowed” to talk to her then.
The special is the couple’s first television interview since they abruptly left Buckingham Palace last year.