Liberty Media president and CEO Gregory Maffei's 2019 compensation soared by more than 100 percent to $44.0 million thanks to a new five-year employment contract. Chairman John Malone's pay rose 27 percent. More details:
John Malone's Liberty Media, which owns audio entertainment giant SiriusXM, the Atlanta Braves baseball team and the Formula One racing circuit, disclosed that president and CEO Gregory Maffei's 2019 compensation amounted to $44.0 million, compared with $20.2 million in 2018.His compensation for last year jumped thanks to a new employment contract that boosted his option awards from $8.8 million to $27.8 million.
Maffei also got a $2.2 million bonus in 2019 after not getting one in at least the two previous years. Liberty Media in the filing also disclosed the annual pay for chairman Malone. He made $1.4 million, up 27 percent from $1.1 million in 2018. He had made $797,082 in 2017 and $747,156 in 2016.that Hollywood's escalating and costly streaming wars would eventually undermine the pay TV industry. "OTT will drain linear TV first, but OTT players will drain each other in a circular fire squad, in our judgment," he told his company's investor day gathering of analysts.
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