After his 2024 salary was revealed to be a whopping $51.9 million, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav will be seeing a major pay cut with reduced income from several venues.

The chief executive of CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, David Zaslav, is expected to get hit with a major pay cut, three years into a disastrous merger of Warner Brothers and Discovery, which was accompanied by a disastrous drop in ratings and revenue for CNN, once considered the crown jewel of the now vanished Time Warner company..

WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a hit after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026, while he's also set to receive millions of new stock options.