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| | PUERTO RICO HERALD: Laughing All The Way To The Bank |
 | | Nowadays, a half-hour of TV production time is paid at a rate of between $5,000 to $8,000, and an artist with a five-day, one-hour-long show can make between $50,000 to $80,000 a week, industry officials say. |
 | | That growth rate is much higher than the one expected for the mainland TV network and station advertising market, which is expected to grow 7% in 2000 to about $41.3 billion, according to the Veronis Scuhler Communications Industry Forecast. |
 | | Attempting to do the latter, they say, is a losing proposition on an island where high unemployment and low education levels lead to an average TV viewer who spends eight hours a day glued to the boob tube. |
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