BT Television's staff count wasn't large; even including the janitors, it had just over forty employees. This was the case with Tommy adopting a serious demeanor to start a television station. If he had modeled it after the cartoon TV station owned by an NBA star next door, the staff needed probably would have been four to eight people.
The reason for needing so few employees primarily stemmed from the television industry in America being taught a lesson by the film industry, or rather, the giants controlling both the TV and movie industries kept all the profitable businesses firmly in hand.
The United States television industry has a series of unique Television Program Constraint Acts. This Act is the result of Hollywood's major film studios spending a lot of money to hire several lobbying firms to work on the United States Congress, which took years to finally get passed.
