i just have no clue how money works. I'm assuming NBC would turn a huge profit from advertising and shyt? But to give Jerry $110 mil? how the fukk much money is there in advertising? sindication? why would one more season increase the money so much? I just have no grasp on how shyt works. there is so much god damn money in the world and i aint got none of it
According to the OP, the show had 21m viewers per episode. If you had a product, advertising to 21m people a week is a gold mine. Advertising is BIG money breh.
The quote in the op was misstated the nielsen rating was 21.7 which is about 38million viewers (source wikipedia)
In an attempt to break it down:
During the late 90's the superbowl had about 90 million viewers with 30sec ad slot costing 1.6 million. Comparing this to Seinfeld's 38 million Id say it would be about $675,000 per 30sec. Seinfeld ran for 30min on a 22min block so there was 8min of commercials...split that into 16 30 sec segments. 675,000 per 30 sec and there's 16 of them leads to 10.8 million in advertising revenue per episode Seinfeld aired. The season would have had 24 episodes so that would have led to about $260 million in ad revenue for the entire season.
That's not even counting the ad revenue for re-runs. Then the syndication money, dvd sales, and merch and yea $110 million looks like chump change compared to how much that season would have made.
