Fourth Estate: Star Struck

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Nowadays the financial fate of the networks is determined by the stars. Not the celestial kind–the Hollywood kind.
NBC, for example, has to pay newly minted Oscar-winner Helen Hunt $1 million an episode for Mad About You, a show whose ratings can’t compete with Seinfeld. Still, the network couldn’t afford to lose it. NBC also had to cough up $13 million for every episode of ER to Warner Bros., its producers, up from $2 million last season.



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