It may be that Gayle King’s time to CBS is over.
The protagonist of “CBS Mornings”, who started his first time on the Tiffany network in 2012, with Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell, will face hard negotiations to renew a contract that will come in September, sources said in The Post.
Insiders said that the 70 -year -old salary, which reached more than $ 10 million, is too high to justify the ratings of his sample. As reported by The Post, King’s annual compensation was shortened last year of $ 13 million when it led to a new one -year agreement.
“This could be last year of Gayle”, according to a privileged media near Tiffany’s network.
When King reinforced last year, the CBS Paramount Global was in a strong reduction in budgets ahead of its melting proposal with Hollywood Studio Skydance Media.
The company is still in disorder. On Monday’s head, CBS News head, Wendy McMahon, abandoned strong scores in “CBS Mornings” and “Evening News”, which sought to review with a new format and an anchor line.
Now, the president of number 2, CBS News President Tom Cibrowski, will try to cause bleeding, which could worse if King leaves.
“Tom does not have enough hands to cover the holes in the dam,” said an Insider CBS, who said that losing King would mainly shake the morning program and that it would be another problem that the veteran programmer would have to solve.
Paramount is expected to begin another round of brutal cuts as part of his term to reduce $ 500 million as soon as next month. If we assume that Skydance and Paramount will close its agreement, it is expected that the new Skydance management will continue to cut off, a well -located source told Post.
“The first year of the merger will only be consolidation,” the person said.
Skydance refused to comment, but a source close to the company said: “No one has thought of Gayle King’s contract, as there are clearly other priorities to deal with.”
For King, another great agreement for a year will be a “miracle”, added a third source, explaining that CBS has been offering one year contracts because the anchor is “too expensive”.
Talent contracts are usually about three years. Another person said that King prefers one year contracts, as he weighs his options on what to do afterwards.
“Gayle sees writing on the wall,” said the person.
CBS News and King did not respond to feedback applications.
Although King is the face of the network, it does not have much negotiation levers, sources said. While you could choose to get another reduction in salaries, it would probably be much more intense this time, as the evaluations of the wrapped news division continue to sink.
His latest show, which he hosted with Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson, reached a new bass since he was released in September 2021.
In recent weeks, the total view of the program sank below 2 million, despite a major impulse on April 14 for the exclusive coverage of King’s Space Flight to Blue Origin Rocket by Jeff Bezos.
The anchor made a 11-minute tour of the space with a crew of all the women that included the pop star Katy Perry and the Amazon founder’s girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, helping his program to become a rare first place.
The show attracted approximately 3.9 million viewers, which surpassed “Good Morning America” of NBC, which won 2.7 million and 2.5 million viewers, respectively, according to Nielsen Ratings.
The evaluations of “CBS Mornings”, however, have returned to Earth, with 1.9 million viewers the week of May 5, with NBC with 2.6 million and ABC with 2.7 million viewers.
“Skydance definitely will not keep it with these numbers,” the first source said.
Although Skydance is expected to merge with Paramount in the coming months, the agreement faces obstacles.
Paramount is currently in talks with Trump’s lawyers about his $ 20 billion demand during the “60 -minute” edition of his position with former President Kamala Harris.
Trump’s FCC President Brendan Carr also studies this topic.
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