She cast "The Office" pilot for forty thousand dollars, and received a fraction of that for each episode, but receives nothing from reruns or digital sales of any of her shows.
Syndicated reruns and DVD sales landed television producer Aaron Spelling high on our list of the crypt's top earners.
The networks can also make money on international syndication and through DVD sales or reruns.
Filmed TV shows proved at least as popular as their live counterparts, and, unlike live programs, they could generate income indefinitely through the sale of rerun rights.
Syndication sales from reruns of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and other TV series should begin to swell corporate coffers a year from now, Mr. Dixon said.
Operating income at the ABC broadcast network and a string of local television stations fell 21 percent, to $213 million, because of higher prime-time programming costs, lower sales of reruns and a decline in advertising revenue tied to a decline in ratings.
The business managers held simulated negotiations over the sale of rerun rights for a cartoon TV series.
In early April, CBS stock jumped more than 21% after Cohen predicted sales of reruns to cable channels would lift results in the year's second half a signal both to her prescience as an analyst and her influence on investors.
