Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced today that they have reached an exclusive agreement with Broadway Video, which brings the entire 38 season archive of Saturday Night Live on Yahoo. As part of this deal, clips from the current season will be available as well. Saturday Night Live is one of the oldest running shows, presented in front of a live audience in New York, the show is watched and loved by millions of people around the world. Saturday Night Live is hosted by all kinds of stars from the showbiz industry, including but not limited to TV and film actors. The show is very well known for its hilarious skits, which have made popular the likes of Tina Fey, Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg.
Yahoo will have access to a range of content which will include extras and dress rehearsal footage. The company will have non-exclusive distribution rights to show the content outside of U.S. and Broadway Video will remove SNL archives from streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu. The SNL content will be available for streaming across Yahoo sites starting September 1st.