{
  "id": 13211595,
  "title": "Warner Bros Discovery’s Billion-Dollar Club: Here’s What Top Execs Took Home From Skydance Deal",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/09/warner-bros-discoverys-billion-dollar-club-heres-what-top-execs-took",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-10-09T21:02:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/10/wbd-payouts-executives-skydance-merger-1237143687/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Former Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav collected a massive windfall (more than $600 million) for orchestrating the company’s $110 billion sale to Paramount – but he wasn’t alone. Zaslav’s top deputies also made out extremely well from the combination under new corporate parent Skydance, which closed this week, according to SEC filings. Streaming and […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}