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Media CEOs Take Over the High Pay List

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Oscar Madison

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Six of the 10 highest paid suits run media companies (one more heads a company moving into media). The other three run drug companies.

Media CEOs dominate ranks of top-paid executives

NEW YORK (AP) — They're not Hollywood stars, they're not TV personalities and they don't play in a rock band, but their pay packages are in the same league.

Six of the 10 highest-paid CEOs last year worked in the media industry, according to a study carried out by executive compensation data firm Equilar and The Associated Press.

The best-paid chief executive of a large American company was David Zaslav, head of Discovery Communications, the pay-TV channel operator that is home to "Shark Week." His total compensation more than quadrupled to $156.1 million in 2014 after he extended his contract.

Les Moonves, of CBS, held on to second place in the rankings, despite a drop in pay from a year earlier. His pay package totaled $54.4 million.

The remaining four CEOs, from entertainment giants Viacom, Walt Disney, Comcast and Time Warner, have ranked among the nation's highest-paid executives for at least four years, according to the Equilar/AP pay study. ...
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TheBigA said:
Interesting that of those 6 media companies, only one still owns radio stations: CBS.
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Disney still has ESPN radio and one Radio Disney stations.
 
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