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Different Types Of Economics Within The Game Show Industry

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The business that I have chosen for this project is TV Game Shows. Over the next few pages, I will show different types of economics within the game show industry.
Cash prizes are paid by the show, and the money comes from the producers, who are paid by the advertisers/network. There can be a couple of "safeguards" that make this a little easier for the shows:

- They can have an insurance policy to protect them from huge losses. For example, the insurance company says, we 've studied the odds of your game, and we 'll sell you a policy for $200,000 up front, that pays out full prize money any time someone wins $100,000 or more during this season of the show. Obviously this is all about a smart insurance company who has studied the gameplay and sorted out the odds of how many players will win big, but the point is that the show doesn 't have to worry about it. They can let the insurance company work it out, and the show then has a nice fixed-cost expense they can reliably drop into their production budget and not think about it.

- For really big prizes ($1,000,000), shows may pay similar to a lottery, where the money is in a fund that pays over x amount of years, or the winner can take a reduced lump sum immediately. For example, if you were to win $1 million on a show, they might tell you (after the show is done taping) "okay! We can give you $50,000 a year for the next 20 years, or we can pay you $450,000 lump-sum right now and that 's all you get."

And of course,

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