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Welcome back to What I’m Hearing on this WGA Strike Eve. I’ll be at the Milken Global Conference this week, in Beverly Hills, so say hello if you see me. And I’m moderating at the Future of Arts, Media, and Entertainment conference on May 17 at Stanford Business School. Tickets for that are here.
First, a little news treat for people who open this email quickly: Apple TV+ will announce later tonight that it is renewing The Morning Show for a fourth season. (Season 3, with Jon Hamm, airs this fall.) Good news for fans and those of us that who-watch this show religiously.
Programming notes: This week on The Town, Lucas Shaw and I probed the Comcast angle on the Jeff Shell scandal, Ben Winston pushed back on the late-night death narrative, and Ray Subers explained the NRG star power study that I revealed last Sunday. Subscribe here and here.
More: Part 3 of Julia Alexander’s Streamer Report Cards will be published in WIH+ on Tuesday. If you’re not getting WIH+, fix that by clicking here.
Discussed in this issue: Ellen Stutzman, Jimmy Kimmel, David Zaslav, Bob Iger, Jeff Shell, Ted Sarandos, Charlie Collier, Anthony Pellicano, Hadley Gamble, Jay Leno, and Tom Barrack’s short-shorts.
But first…
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| It’s been quite a nice run for ill-timed executive salary reveals. On the eve of a crippling writers strike, we learned that Live Nation C.E.O. Michael Rapino’s pay jumped to $139 million in 2022; new Roku media president Charlie Collier got a $53.3 million package (more than Netflix co-C.E.O. Ted Sarandos!); former leaders Matt Blank, Josh Sapan, and Christina Spade took a combined $40 million out of AMC Networks last year; Comcast C.E.O. Brian Roberts’ pay hit $32 million (despite Comcast stock falling 30 percent in 2022), and NBC Universal C.E.O. Jeff Shellwas in line for $43 million in awards until he was fired for cause. Whew...
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