Can someone explain to me how T.V. shows make money?
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they charge millions of dollars for ads so they can pay the actors millions of dollars
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You need a truckload of money. If you are looking to make money, forget it. The record industry as we know it will soon die as a result of the internet and new media. There is just too much overhead and not enough income, and people have plenty more options for entertainment.\n\nLook into developing new media avenues instead.
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The radio station purchases a number on the radio dial (their frequency)  The radio station buys tower(s) to transmit their signal.  They have salespeople to sell advertisements that they will air on the radio.  They can charge what they want for ads and air as many as they want.  That's kind of the simplified version, but I think you get it.
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y?they make money from it.its not like we r losing anything.if they r doing something obscene maybe yes,which ads probably could not do,then yes.all they r doing is saying blah blah lights will help u forever annd get money
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The vast majority of the money earned is from selling the rights to broadcast games in the local TV market.  (The TV station then sells advertising during the games.)\n\nOwners also make a good deal of money on concessions at the game (why do you think sodas cost $6?) and from admissions and parking.\n\nHope this helps!
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they make a lot of money
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this is how they make there money!
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Pay TV is basically any subscription-based TV service such as Sky TV (satellite) or ntl (cable). Sky, as well as running the satellite TV system, also owns a number of channels, Sky 1, Sky 2, Sky Movies, Sky Sports, the vast majority of which are only available via subscription.\n\nIt is also true that in the UK we have to pay a licence fee, all of which goes to the BBC, which is free apart from that.\n\nOriginally, Lost was aired in the UK on Channel 4, which is a free channel and very popular - you don't need Sky or cable, just a TV. Channel 4 bought the rights for the first two seasons, but they were outbid by Sky for the rights to the third and fourth seasons. Sky paid around $40m for both seasons. Channel 4 weren't prepared to match this, though they did pay around $80m for seasons 3 & 4 of Desperate Housewives, which is slightly more popular in the UK.\n\nBecause you need either Sky or cable to watch Lost now (Sky 1, the channel, is on both), a lot of people who watched the show on Channel 4 are really annoyed, because many of them don't have Sky or cable.
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No, generally speaking no big TV show ever is. They start out with all the creators in place (writers, prodcuers, etc.) and when it's up and running they hand it over to another team. The creators then cream their money off the top and go out and try to make a new show. Smaller TV shows with lower budgets can work the opposite way. They start out on small budgets at non-primetime slots and if they make it they can get promoted to a good slot and get more money and become better.\nBut if you start out Big the only way is down, you might get two good seasons, (6 feet under) and then fade or maybe more (The Sopranos) but even then the original idea of the show gets lost in the characters and becomes a soap opera.
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Very good question - I suppose they (the stations) make more money when the average person is awake - therefore, more viewers blah blah... but it drives me crazy - this is why I love my TiVo.
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conduct some shows and help them with the money collected..???
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Of course they win the money. Uncle Sam takes out a nice chunk in taxes though.\n\nIn the case of deal or no deal.. they get big revenues from advertisers. As the show grows in popularity they charge more for ad spots shown during the show. I believe this is where a big chunk of the prize money comes from.
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Ya, sure it is...as long as you're a MONOPOLY!  PS:  Don't blame the "Cable Company"...you always have a choice---to watch or not to watch; to pay or not to pay.  Without getting into it too much, most people don't understand that the game has changed.  Go buy a new SD/HD receiver set top box & a new antennae, jump up on your roof and run a piece of coaxial down to your tv location...and whola!  You're a "cable company"---sort of...now you're at the mercy of where you live & how many "over-the-air" channels that the local "antennae" plant has set up for you to recieve local station...if you want "HBO/ESPN" like channels---well you're out of luck...cause the "cable companies" are smarter than you are and these channels are not broad cast over the air & are "monopolized" for marketing purposes so, we all must pay to recieve yadda yadda...Welcome to CAPITALISM 101.\n\nHope this perspective helps.\n\nSincerely,\n\nEX-CABLE GUY known as BS from Canada
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I agree but that is one of the main ways they get their income. I listen to their radio program on Sirius radio. They have a program in the morning and replay it during the lunch time. In between the coach's show with the weasel Terry Bowdon.
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they require agents, becouse an agent can filter alot of this out, and so they dont have to deal with over 1 million people trying to sell them something.\n\nlittle known facts, a lot of tv shows are mocked up, and filmed, and submited as test show, oh yea, its a pilot\n\nthis way, the exec can just watch a quick show, instead of being pitched and wondering the vision.
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It makes great tv and stuff, but actually.. there is no devil, and you don't have a soul to sell.  But if all of that were really true, you do make an excellent point.  It's kinda like running out and buying a "T" shirt that says Nike on it and giving them free advertising, while they pay some basketball player a million bucks to do the same thing.