On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 1:57 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > > This does not sound out of line for the annual cost of producing a show > like this. That same Time magazine article I linked earlier put ad revenue > for the three late night broadcast shows at $600M for 2014, and rising. It > is not clear to me if that is for just the 11:35 shows, or includes the > later shows as well, but I have to assume the bulk of the revenue comes > from the earlier shows anyway. I would guess that CBS is getting at least > $150M a year in ad revenue for Late Night; that would put their profit at > something like $65M a year if the cost was $85M/year. The actual numbers > are no doubt different, but this seems like a plausible first approximation. > > But something does seem wrong with these numbers if it were literally true > that Worldwide Pants was paying for all of the production costs of the > show. That would mean they were losing $55M a year (getting paid $30M, > paying $85M a year). Maybe WWP also got a fraction of the ad revenue? Or do > they make money in some other way from owning the show? Or, as I seem to > vaguely remember, did they share the production costs in some way with CBS? >
CBS owns the theater and equipment. They paid for the crew, building engineers and stagehands, as well as cameras, lights, and sound and their operators. That and transmission costs is probably more than half of what it costs to put a show on the air. > > *Show* *Net* *Adults 18-49, 8/22- 8/26* *Viewers (millions), 8/22- 8/26* > *Adults > 18-49 season to date * > *11:35 p.m.* > > > > > The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon NBC 0.82/5 3.18 0.99/5 > Late Show with Stephen Colbert ABC 0.46/2 2.14 0.61/3 > Jimmy Kimmel Live CBS 0.42/2 1.97 0.53/3 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
