When the arithmetic mean is used to calculate this, it can be misleading because the salaries can be widely spread. Thus it may happen that 10% of the class have gotten excellent job offers while half the class is without jobs. Even in such a scenario, the mean salary can be a good number, but it hides facts behind it.
âGame of Thrones is a piece of the puzzle,â Pursel said. Time Warner owns HBO, which owns the television rights to the GOT franchise. In early February 2014, Time Warner formally released financial results for HBO. For 2013, HBOâs revenues were $4.9 billion with operating income of $1.7 billion.
(Showtime owns about half its output; the recent breakout hit Homeland is produced by Fox.) That makes programming more expensive, but itâs a smart move. The first season of Game of Thrones was reported to cost between $50 million and $60 million to produce; but international sales covered more than $25 million of that.lthough the first Sunday night screenings pulled in an average of just 2.5 million viewers during the first season, Game of Thrones â average gross audience was 9.3 million viewers per episode. For the premium networks, what matters is that viewers are passionate enough to keep their subscriptions active.