Couric/Lauer make more than Brian Williams; Keith = ShepSmith. Dave

[UTUSN]

Dave more than LENO. I thought Lawrence O'DONNELL was like a guest/temp. Judy SHEINDLIN is a robbery in progress. Or it might be they all are. Meanwhile, good on Chelsea HANDLER and Joel McHALE needs more.


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http://tv.yahoo.com/blog/who-are-tvs-top-earners--1459

Who Are TV's Top Earners?

By Stephen Battaglio, TV Guide

.... Network and studio executives tell TV Guide Magazine they've adopted a get-tough policy on salaries for stars of the new fall shows. While the salary for a lead has been $150,000 to $200,000 per episode in recent years, most deals for stars of new series were between $75,000 and $125,000. ....

News (per year)

Matt Lauer (Today) $16 million +
Katie Couric (CBS) $15 million
Brian Williams (NBC) $12.5 million
Diane Sawyer (ABC) $12 million
Meredith Vieira (Today) $11 million
Bill O'Reilly (Fox News) $10 million
George Stephanopoulos (ABC) $8 million
Keith Olbermann (MSNBC) $7 million
Shepard Smith (Fox News) $7 million
Wolf Blitzer (CNN) $3 million
Christiane Amanpour (ABC) $2 million
Lawrence O'Donnell (MSNBC) $2 million
Eliot Spitzer (CNN) $500,000


Late Night/Talk Syndication (per year)

Oprah Winfrey $315 million
Judge Judy Sheindlin $45 million
David Letterman (The Late Show) $28 million
Jay Leno (The Tonight Show) $25 million
Conan O'Brien (The Conan O'Brien Show) $10 million
Ellen DeGeneres (The Ellen DeGeneres Show) $8 million
Jimmy Kimmel (Jimmy Kimmel Live) $6 million
Chelsea Handler (Chelsea Lately) $3.5 million
George Lopez (Lopez Tonight) $3.5 million


Reality (per year)

Ryan Seacrest (American Idol) $15 million
Joel McHale (The Soup) $2 million
Piers Morgan (America's Got Talent) $2 million
Kate Gosselin (Kate Plus 8) $250,000 per episode
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (Jersey Shore) $30,000 per episode

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[Kookaburra]

1. being unemployed and barely making it myself, this

does not sit well with me. I know I shouldn't judge, and I shouldn't begrudge another human being the living he or she makes, but damn. This is ridiculous.

[UTUSN]

5. & they yuk it up while basically READING aloud.

As for the "artistic" entertainers, jumping around and baring it all, Engineering majors used to gripe about the disparities in earnings. And a hard laboring dude, after seeing a steamy scene on t.v., said that "stars" is another word for prostitution.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. Wolf makes less than half of Keith? LOL!

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. I'm really glad I don't have a tv. n/t

[dsc]

4. I can't believe the guy from Amazing race makes less than a Jersey Shore player

He is a huge part of that shows success and he is both nicer and cuter than she is.

[hfojvt]

6. Does that mean Rachel makes less than $500,000?

since Spitzer is on the list at $500,000 and Rachel is not. Why wouldn't she make more than O'Donnell?

Paging Lilly Ledbetter ...

[Octafish]

7. It's easy to see why there's so much coverage of economic impacts on middle class.

FWIW: Snooki makes more per episode than most real journalists do in a year.

[GoldenOldie]

8. Gives new meaning to GNP..........

"Gross" National Product!

While corporations have been "downsizing," and outsourcing,leaving millions of Americans without,corporations now deemed.....persons by the Supremes,corporate dollars go to pay for talking heads and boob-tube reality shows such as Housewives of ?????, Morons of New Jersey Shore, The daily lives of Women breeders, etc., etc. This is what America has become???? Top it all off by letting all the new millionaires keep the George W. Bush tax break!!!! This ain't my American.

[Octafish]

9. Mine, neither, GoldenOldie.

Journalism as entertainment means the same thing as bread & circuses to the Roman empire. Keep the rubes' attention fixed on the shiny thing and they won't even notice as the system transmutes from republic to empire. And academia? They work for the same turds Fareed Zakaria services.

We don't have to turn back the clock to bring America back. We just have to wrest the remote control out of the cold, dead hands of Corporate McPravda.