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Originally Posted by Cipher
my question: how much do tv channel spaces(?)...or networks(?) cost?
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I guess you're asking how much advertising time costs? For US television these days it runs about
$20-25 per thousand viewers reached. (Whether they're actually watching these ads is a whole other story, of course.) At that rate, a 30-second spot ad in prime time costs somewhat over $100,000. A Google search for "television cpm" should be helpful.
From
1965-1975 or so, the figure was about $2.
If you're asking how much it would cost to buy a television network, we're talking billions of dollars for any major network. Estimates of the value of NBC/Universal, which Comcast has indicated an interest in buying, run about
$35 billion, but that includes the value of Universal's enormous library of television programs and films.
It's generally not possible to buy an individual network. Most of them are elements in portfolios owned by
entities like Viacom, Disney, and Time Warner.