Who are the Producers?

In class today we talked about how media texts are made and then distributed to us. While learing about thing I began to wonder how this works in the "real world" of media text. Take for example who the producers of a televison show are. In class we said that the writers, set designers, actors, directors, make up artist, and the actually producers of the show. Now if you were to walk in one a production meeting and asked who was the producer of the show the only people to raise their hands would be the people with the title producer. The other people that we listed are people who are, in my opinion to people who help produce the show itself. Without them the show would not go on. Being a producer means that you are going to produce something that will be considered a mass media text. While you could consider the cast and crew to be making a product that is going to become a mass media text, but to say that they all sat down and came up with the idea is very wrong in my book.