{"id":2265440,"date":"2026-02-03T22:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2265440"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:03:17","slug":"ted-sarandos-hedges-on-netflix-residual-payments-at-senate-hearing-not-a-yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ted-sarandos-hedges-on-netflix-residual-payments-at-senate-hearing-not-a-yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Sarandos Hedges on Netflix Residual Payments at Senate Hearing: \u2018Not a Yes or No\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">At a Senate antitrust hearing on Tuesday, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\">Netflix<\/a> Co-CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1848253\/\">Ted Sarandos<\/a> declined to give a \u201cyes or no\u201d answer when asked if he would commit to \u201cfull residuals\u201d for union workers.<\/p>\n<p>Sarandos was at the Capitol to answer questions about Netflix\u2019s proposed merger with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0026840\/\">Warner Bros.<\/a> Sen. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6379792\/\">Josh Hawley<\/a>, R-Missouri, asked him to make a series of labor commitments, including a pledge to increase the studio\u2019s domestic production workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Sarandos was happy to commit to that, and to maintaining a 45-day theatrical window. But he was a little flummoxed when asked to commit to \u201cfull residuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a Senate antitrust hearing on Tuesday, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos declined to give a \u201cyes or no\u201d answer when asked if he would commit to \u201cfull residuals\u201d for union workers. Sarandos was at the Capitol to answer questions about Netflix\u2019s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Missouri, asked him to make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2265441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2265440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ted-Sarandos-Hedges-on-Netflix-Residual-Payments-at-Senate-Hearing.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265442,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265440\/revisions\/2265442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}