Article: THE MARKETING 100: `SEINFELD': JERRY SEINFELD

After nine seasons "Seinfeld," the nation's most popular sitcom, called it quits. With cover stories in magazines from Rolling Stone to Vanity Fair, the build-up to the finale was orchestrated to a fare-thee-well.

Among the contributing hype was the Advertising Age headline, "Seinfeld shocker: $2 million price tag," whose accompanying story carried the news that NBC was pricing 30-second commercials to studios at $2 million each.

In the end, advertisers ponyed up between $1.4 million and $1.8 million to advertise on the finale, including General Motors Corp., MasterCard International, Warner Bros., Fuji Photo Film USA, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and ...

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