AMC Networks first-quarter 2019 earnings will come later this week, but we now know what President and CEO Josh Sapan earned last year. The overseer of AMC, Sundance TV, IFC, BBC America, WE TV and all the rest made $20.5 million in 2018, down 31% from the prior year’s $29.6 million haul. Sapan’s salary remained the same as previous years’ at $2 million, so what gives?...
Discovery President and CEO David Zaslav hauled in almost $130 million in 2018, more than tripling his 2017 executive compensation, according to a Friday SEC filing. That huge all-in number was mostly thanks to an enormous increase in Zaslav’s options award. In 2018, that category alone surpassed $100 million...
Viacom president and CEO Bob Bakish saw his all-in pay decline slightly — roughly 2 percent — from 2017 to 2018, but he still hauled in about $20 million, according to a Friday SEC filing. Bakish’s actual salary increased from about $2.8 million in 2017 to a flat $3 million last year...
The Murdoch Family just became rich(er). Rupert Murdoch and sons, James and Lachlan, each hauled in around $50 million in fiscal 2018, representing huge pay bumps from the prior year...
CBS CEO Les Moonves stepped down on Sunday and is exiting the company without a severance package for now...
Shari Redstone’s family company, National Amusements, and the CBS board of directors have been in talks for weeks, trying to reach a settlement in their messy, public legal dispute over control of CBS...
CBS Corp CEO Leslie Moonves’ senior executive team was accused in a Delaware Court filing of destroying evidence in the media company’s messy legal battle with Shari Redstone and National Amusements...
David Zaslav, Discovery Communications CEO Discovery Communications announced on Wednesday that it has extended CEO David Zaslav’s contract through 2023...
CBS Corporation is suing parent company National Amusements, Inc. (NAI) in an attempt to dilute the controlling voting power of Shari Redstone, who is trying to force CBS to re-merge with Viacom...
Weinstein Co. Executives, Board Under New Scrutiny in NY Attorney General Lawsuit 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Weinstein Company executives and its board of directors are under renewed scrutiny for failing to stop Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct in the new lawsuit filed on Sunday against the company by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman...
The move is being contested and needs court approval, but when the dust settles, the board could have a very different composition. Philippe Dauman, George Abrams, Frederic Salerno, Blythe McGarvie and William Schwartz would be out, replaced by Kenneth Lerer, Thomas May, Judith McHale, Ronald Nelson and Nicole Seligman ...