The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place and with every such change the purchasing power of money changes so far as that thing goes.
You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own by yourself and you have a TV network you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment – and watch it I believe it will – this is how things go.