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Stockholders have expressed serious displeasure with 2022 executive compensation at Warner Bros. Discovery led by CEO David Zaslav, according to the result of a vote at the annual meeting Monday that was filed with the SEC today. The so called say-on-pay vote saw nearly half of all votes cast coming…

Perry Sook, who has led Nexstar Media Group from humble beginnings two-plus decades ago to its current status as the top owner of TV stations and the parent of The CW, made $39.3 million in 2022. The CEO’s total compensation package included a $33 million stock grant, according to an SEC filing. Sook…

AMC Networks said it paid three former CEOs –Christina Spade, Matt Blank and Josh Sapan — packages worth more than a combined $40 million for 2022. Spade, the most recent, was hastened out in November after just three months in the job. She had served as COO and CFO for a year previously. AMC’s…

Endeavor Group Holdings CEO Ari Emanuel, whose bonus-laden $308 million pay package turned heads in 2021, made $19.1 million in 2022, according to the company’s latest proxy filing. The exec took home $4 million in salary, $8.2 million in the form of a bonus and $6 million in non-equity incentive…

David Zaslav’s compensation for 2022 totaled nearly $39.3 million, hefty but well down from the previous year when the figure was swelled to $246 million by a large option grant. According to the company’s proxy filed with the SEC today, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, which merged a year ago, had…

Warner Bros Discovery chief executive David Zaslav earned $232 million in excess compensation in 2021, according to As You Sow's latest annual ranking of the most overpaid CEOs among S&P 500 companies. Amazon, Apple, Disney and Netflix are also high up in the group’s ninth report that looks beyond total…

Apple CEO Tim Cook came close to $100 million in total compensation for the second straight year, taking home $99.4 million in fiscal 2022, according to a proxy statement filed with the SEC. The filing notes that Apple’s compensation committee plans to slash the top exec’s pay by more than 40%…

Netflix has issued estimates for the 2023 compensation of its top executives, with Co-CEOs Reed Hastings and Ted Sarandos set to take home $34.65 million and $40 million, respectively. The forecast by the board of directors’ compensation committee, disclosed today in an SEC filing, is in line with 20…

Bob Iger, who was reinstalled as CEO of the Walt Disney Co. yesterday, will be eligible to receive up to $27 million in each of the two years he is under contract to lead the company. The compensation targets covering Iger’s new contract window, from November 20, 2022, through December 31, 2024…

Total executive compensation declined for top executives at Fox Corp. in fiscal 2022, compared with a year earlier, according to an SEC filing. Lachlan Murdoch, who is executive chair and CEO, took home a total pay package of $21.7 million, down from $27.7 million in fiscal 2021. On top of a base salary of $3 million…

UPDATE: Lionsgate has extended the employment agreement of CEO Jon Feltheimer for another year, through August 2025, according to an SEC filing. The decision follows a 2020 extension, which included an option enabling the company’s board of directors to re-up him through August 2025. Lionsgate’s TV studio has been on…

Matt Blank, interim CEO of AMC Networks, made just shy of $7 million in total compensation in 2021, according to a proxy filing with the SEC. Blank’s predecessor, longtime company veteran Josh Sapan, took home nearly $15.3 million, up from his 2020 level of $11.8 million but below his $20.2 million package in 2019…