American Entertainment Industry Stars Make BIG Bucks! Millions of dollars a year. Why so?

From the links:

• http://www.tvguide.com/News/Top-TV-Earners-1021717.aspx
• http://ca.omg.yahoo.com/news/cbs-boss-les-moonves-angus-t-jones-situation-181600060.html

Q: Guess how much Charlie Sheen used to make per episode on Two and Half Men?
A: $1.25 million !!!

Q: Guess how much the kid on the same show makes per week?
A: $300,000 !!!

Here is a list of some other TV stars making huge money (2010 info):

Late Night/Talk Syndication (per year)

• Oprah Winfrey $315 million
• Judge Judy Sheindlin $45 million
• David Letterman (The Late Show) $28 million
• Jay Leno (The Tonight Show) $25 million
• Conan O'Brien (The Conan O'Brien Show) $10 million
• Ellen DeGeneres (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) $8 million
• Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live) $6 million
• Chelsea Handler (Chelsea Lately) $3.5 million
• George Lopez (Lopez Tonight) $3.5 million

Reality (per year)

• Ryan Seacrest (American Idol) $15 million
• Joel McHale (The Soup) $2 million
• Piers Morgan (America's Got Talent) $2 million

News (per year)

• Matt Lauer (Today) $16 million +
• Katie Couric (CBS) $15 million
• Brian Williams  (NBC) $12.5 million
• Diane Sawyer  (ABC) $12 million
• Meredith Vieira  (Today) $11 million
• Bill O'Reilly  (Fox News) $10 million
• George Stephanopoulos (ABC) $8 million
• Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) $7 million
• Shepard Smith (Fox News) $7 million
• Wolf Blitzer (CNN) $3 million
• Christiane Amanpour (ABC) $2 million
• Lawrence O'Donnell (MSNBC) $2 million

Q: Ever wonder why they make so much money?
A:
The bigger the TV show ---> 
the more the number of viewers (eyeballs per second) --->
the more the impact of a television advertisement --->
the more of cost of TV advertisements in between the show --->
the more the show gets paid by the television company --->
the more the TV stars get paid by the producers!

Check out the 30 second advertisement rate on prime time TV here: http://www.frankwbaker.com/thirtysecadcosts.htm

Whoa!