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'Seinfeld' has earned $2.7B since 1998

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Jerry Seinfeld arrives at the Kennedy Center for the 12 Annual Mark Twain Prize, awarded to Bill Cosby, in Washington on October 26, 2009. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn
Jerry Seinfeld arrives at the Kennedy Center for the 12 Annual Mark Twain Prize, awarded to Bill Cosby, in Washington on October 26, 2009. UPI/Alexis C. Glenn 
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Published: June 7, 2010 at 1:48 PM

NEW YORK, June 7 (UPI) -- U.S. sitcom "Seinfeld" has earned $2.7 billion since it ended its 9-season run in 1998, said Time Warner, the show's owner.

The New York Post called the series -- starring Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, Michael Richards and Julia Louis-Dreyfus as a group of neurotic friends living in Manhattan -- the most profitable 30-minute program in TV history.

The show's earnings since it ended have come from syndication rights and DVD sales, with the sitcom's co-creators Seinfeld and Larry David alone having made hundreds of millions of dollars from the airing of "Seinfeld" reruns, the newspaper noted.

Topics: Jason Alexander, Jerry Seinfeld, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Larry David, Michael Richards
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