$10 million here, $10 million there...
Posted on 06/11/2015 1:05:50 PM PDT by drewh
Lester Holt — who’s primed to permanently take over for fibbing Brian Williams on “NBC Nightly News” — wants the same $10 million-per-year salary Williams was getting.
Holt’s agents want to quietly renegotiate his contract with NBC as the network tries to reach a resolution over Williams, who will not return to “Nightly News” following an internal investigation.
But insiders tell us it’s Holt who’s got the upper hand as NBC News has no backup anchor plan.
“There’s a lot of drama at NBC News,” said a source familiar with the upcoming negotiations. Holt is currently being paid about $4 million per year as the “Nightly News” weekend anchor and for other assignments. But the network so far has offered Holt less than lyin’ Brian was making to take over the newscast, a source said.
“Lester’s team feels that if he gets half of what Williams was making, the message to him and the newsroom is he’s half the anchor Brian was.”
The source added Holt “won’t walk away” from the talks, but “He’s got NBC by the balls — because there is no Plan B for them. This is Lester’s chance to get paid.” Holt can renegotiate his deal since his role is changing.
To make Holt happy, we hear NBC News could offer him what Williams was making before he signed his huge $10 million-a-year, five-year contract in 2014.
“Lester hasn’t ‘been there’ yet,” said an insider of Holt’s payday, pointing out Williams anchored “NBC Nightly News” for a decade before he inked the massive deal last year.
Page Six reported on Monday that Williams will likely lose his anchor chair, but could be brought back to NBC News in a different, lesser role. The negotiations are complex and still ongoing.
Reps for NBC and Holt didn’t comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at pagesix.com ...
It would be raciss of NBC to not offer Lester the same $$, wouldn’t it?
Let me guess, so he can churn out the same b.s. as Williams did. After all, that must be the going market rate, eh?
$10 million here, $10 million there...
And y’all thought “journalism” was a calling...
aww c’mon, folks!!! Lester needs the $10mil. $4 doesn’t cut it. He has bills to pay....
Yes it would!
Yup, and Lester knows he has that trump card. Good for him for putting them over the barrel. Pay up, or he’ll be on every other network doing panels on the topic of why NBC is engaging “wage discrimination”.
how comparable are the Lester’s rating to Brian’s before the roof fell in?
mo money mo problems!
This has got to be the stupidest article ever.
No intelligent person cares about Lester Holt or watches him read the news. Holt has no skills. He is not worth $4 million per year. If he did not have the NBC job would be making little more than minimum wage. There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who can read a teleprompter as well as him.
NBC execs make stupid decisions. NBC News is continues to lose viewers. But why pay $10 million per year to a mediocre news reader?
Ratings? Ha! That would assume pay was based on performance. Doubt that’s applicable, in this situation.
Dats right. Somebody better get on the horn with Je$$e Jack$on, NBC is trying to shaft a brother.
I like the sound of that. Go get 'em Lester!
Don’t make him call the Justice Bros.
LOL!!!
No less than Brian’s, according to recent surveys.
Give him the $10 million...
I agree. I love it when the left eats its own, gets hoisted by its own petard, etc.
There sure as hell isn't any journalism there.
Maybe it will help him afford to fix that lisp.
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