CNN is said to be paying an anerson Cooper anchor $ 18 million a year-a large sum that may be in the chairs when the challenged network is changed by his parent-driven parent company.
Cooper, the network face and the host of his premium show at 8am, along with other anchors like Kaitlan Collins and Jake Tapper face an unsafe future after Monday’s stunning announcement by Warner Bros. Discovery David Zaslav for the near -sharing, according to the Puck newspaper.
Zaslav foiled the main financial official of WBD Gunnar Wiedenfels to take over CNN and other cable assets including TNT, TBS, HGTV as part of a new company called Global Networks.
One source told The Post that CNN employees are worried about Wiedenfel, whom they say has a reputation to reduce ruthless costs.
“Gunnar news is not good,” the person said. “He’s slammed and burnt.”
Puck Media writer Dylan Byers singled out Cooper and his $ 18 million salary as a possible target, given that the network remains united in the last place in ratings.
“Why, for example, would pay the Gunnar Anderson Cooper $ 18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins attracts the same estimates in approximately one fifth of salary?” Wrote the byers.
According to Nielsen’s latest estimates, “Anderson Cooper 360” attracted 647,000 general viewers on Tuesday – or about $ 27 per viewer.
“The source with Kaitlan Collins, which airs on 9 afternoon, withdrew 829,000 viewers on Tuesday, according to Nielsen.
Cooper’s exact salary has never been reported and it is not clear where they got the beers the figure. The post previously reported that Gloria Vanderbilt’s son was paid up to $ 20 million a year.
A CNN spokesman refused to comment on Cooper’s salary.
Cooper, who joined CNN in 2001, may not stay around the supposed blood.
“By the time Gunnar gets around him, Anderson is likely to have determined that he no longer wants to read the news of the day for less than a million people every night,” Beyers wrote.
The CNN unit strongly pushed the suggestion of the Byers that high -end anchors can receive heavy incisions between the projected restructuring under Wiedenfels.
“This is a complete fiction. There is a zero truth about it,” the spokesman said.
The cable news pioneer – which controls himself as “the most reliable name in the news” – had paid big contracts, but his estimates were plunged into low historical levels in recent years.
While breaking news events, Fox News has often quadrupled CNN audience.
Fox News is a unit of Fox Corp – sister company in Corp Corp of Post Corporate Parents.
The economy of maintaining a wide operation of global news with expensive talent is becoming increasingly difficult to protect, especially when young viewers return to Tiktok and YouTube for news.
Last fall, CNN denied the ups for veterans’ anchors Tapper and Wolf Blitzer as Rangu and file journalists withdrew for vacation, as the post reported.
As part of Warner Bros’s breakdown. Discovery, Zaslav will hold HBO, Warner Bros. Studios and Max Streaming platform.
Last week, 59% of the shareholders voted against his massive salary package $ 51.9 million for 2024 – a strong sign of the investor’s disappointment.
WBD was formed in 2022 in a coupling $ 43.1 billion between Warner Bros. and discovery.
Most of the $ 37 billion in debt load will enter the global network.
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