Mr Beast gets 100 million views and more from one video. Takes Colbert 100 episodes to reach the same audience.
YT car repair videos and tits fishing get more views than the legacy late night shows for a penny on the dollar to produce
Maybe the staff was massively overpaid.
He was the highest ratings getter, but those numbers are down from an average of 5+million viewers for the Leno/Letterman years to 1million viewers.
cost $100 million to produce, Steve takes $20 million a year and the show loses $40 million a year.
streaming killed the audience and sponsors
correct
The highly privileged trading in victim currency is exhausting. You don't even work six months a year.
While revenues are up, so are expenses. See adding $25 million to the budget to pay for private planes last season.
"The WNBA plans to commit $50 million over the next two years to provide full-time charter flight service for its teams during the season, commissioner Cathy Engelbert announced Tuesday"
WNBA to begin full-time charter flights, commissioner says - ESPN
Those investments are little to no risk when the NBA will back the W and their losses no matter what.
Don’t think anyone would complain about the WNBA eating what it kills and if they can finish the season in the black for the first time in their history the players deserve to share in that to some degree.
They would have far leas backlash if they focused on what they have earned and grown the last five years instead of the line that they are “owed” anything. It’s simply tone deaf. They make more than the median US salary for about 4 months of work. Those with endorsements make far more.
Their entire PR apparatus needs to be fired and restarted from scratch.
When they speak of a loss of $40 million, will that be repaid? Is the league in debt or are the investors just covering losses? If so, do the investors who have lost a quarter billion over the history of the league expect to recoup those losses or is this new TV deal in a vacuum that ignores prior losses and starts their balance sheet at zero each fiscal year?
Reed still has a high ceiling. How much he develops this season is TBD. If he plays hard on D, limits turnovers (i suspect we will play with less tempo this year) and start hitting his shot that would be huge.