‘Damaged goods’: Chris Cuomo poised for massive pay cut in TV anchor gig – By Alexandra Steigrad (The New York Post) / July 27, 2022
Chris Cuomo is poised to take a massive pay cut as he joins NewsNation, a fledgling cable TV channel with a tiny audience, The Post has learned.
Cuomo, who was reportedly banking $6 million a year for his “Cuomo Prime Time” show on CNN before he was fired last year, will likely earn just a fraction of that — insiders speculate the figure could be around $1 million — as he starts his new gig at NewsNation this fall, sources told The Post.
“I don’t think he had a lot of leverage,” said one source, referring to Cuomo’s contract. “He’s damaged goods.”
The plugged-in media source speculated that Cuomo wasn’t getting any offers from any of the big networks — and that the longer he wasn’t on TV, the more irrelevant he was becoming.
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