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Warner Bros. Discovery Revises CEO David Zaslav Employment Agreement to ‘Significantly Reduce’ His Annual Pay After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a hit after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026, ...
Warner Bros. Discovery will shave a few million off David Zaslav's salary
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders registered complaints that the salary they’d already paid CEO David Zaslav was too damn ...
CNN has 'tears on the horizon' as Warner Bros. Discovery plots network spinoff, industry insiders say
Warner Bros. Discovery's split will put CNN under new leadership, with forecasts of staff cuts and salary reductions as the ...
BadCo? Credit Rating Agency Pours Cold Water on Hollywood Spinoff Ambitions
Fitch Ratings warns leaving spunoff cable TV assets with less cash flow and high debt loads could spell trouble down the road ...
David Zaslav’s Pay To Be “Substantially” Lowered Ahead Of Split, WBD Says, But CEO Will Still Reap Rewards
David Zaslav will have his compensation reduced after shepherding WBD's split into two companies, but he will also reap a ...
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Hard Times Coming To CNN Amid Corporate Spin-Offs: Industry Insiders
Former CNN chief Jeff Zucker, who was ousted prior to the 2022 merger, was known for maintaining high salaries to keep his ...
Who Is Gunnar Wiedenfels? WBD’s Cost-Cutting Finance Exec Picked as CEO of New TV Networks Spin-Off Comprising CNN, TBS, TNT, Discovery+ and More
Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have a name for its planned stand-alone TV-centric biz, but it does have a proposed CEO: ...
Warner Bros. Discovery Reworks CEO Pay, Reducing David Zaslav’s Massive Compensation
Zaslav, the Warner Bros. Discovery president and CEO, will stay behind with the studios and HBO and Max — in other words, ...
From CFO to CEO: Gunnar Wiedenfels to lead global networks company after Warner Bros. Discovery’s 2026 split
David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery ( No. 114 on the Fortune 500), will lead the streaming and studios ...
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Fear Grips CNN as Ruthless Cost-Cutter Takes the Helm as It Is Set To Be Spun Off From Its Parent Company
‘We will continue to be very focused on efficiency,’ says Gunnar Wiedenfels, the new CEO.
WBD’s David Zaslav, Gunnar Wiedenfels Break Down Split That Will See Standalone Companies “Free And Clear” For M&A
Gunnar Wiedenfels is getting his own company to run. It will soon be open season for media M&A. Discovery+ and HBO Max are ...
Anderson Cooper hires Hollywood ‘super agent’ — a sign the $18M-a-year anchor may leave CNN: reports
Anderson Cooper has hired a reputed Hollywood “super agent” — a sign that the CNN anchor, said to be pulling down an annual salary of $18 million, may exit the struggling cable ...