What Makes the Top-Tier TV Hosts

Forbes just released a list of the nation’s top-paid TV hosts. At the top ranked Dr. Phil, Ellen DeGeneres and Ryan Seacrest. How were this A-Listers able to top this list? Newhouse Broadcast Professor of Practice Les Rose answers in Forbes.

“If you are going to deliver a particular audience like Dr. Phil does, you are pure gold to your advertisers,” Rose said. “If Dr. Phil didn’t appeal to moms at home, than he’d be out of business.”