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OUR YEARLY HONOR ROLL OF THOSE WHOSE RESPONSIBILITIES (AND NET INCOMES) ARE TOO
LOFTY FOR US TO INCLUDE IN OUR LIST OF 100 MIGHTY CABLE EXECS. STILL THESE HIGHLY
POWERFUL SOULS ARE NOT ABOVE THE IRREVERENT RIBBING SOME RECEIVE HERE.
PAUL ALLEN (CHARTER)
We've got nothing but
admiration for Allen,
who pledged this
summer to give away
most of his $13bln
fortune. The largest beneficiaries will be
neuroscience and biology, he's said.
GREGORY Q. BROWN AND JOHN
CHAMBERS (MOTOROLA/CISCO)
In this cat and
mouse, Brown's
Motorola is ahead
due to Cisco's bad
Nov forecast for
3%-5% growth:the
target was 13%. A
major culprit was
fewer orders for cable
set-tops, Chambers
said, conceding Motorola had
expanded its market share. The
Journal's headline: 'Torture Chambers
for Cisco Shareholders.' Nice.
PHILLIPE DAUMAN (MTV NETWORKS)
The 56-year Viacom
chief blasted Apple
TV's offer of 99 cents/
ep for Viacom content
in late Sept. Dauman's
total '09 package was nearly $13mln.
Clearly the man knows from the price
of apples.
CHARLES AND JAMES DOLAN
(CABLEVISION, RAINBOW)
Rainbow has never
shone brighter.
Cablevision remains
the gold standard. But
last December it was a
foregone conclusion that LeBron
James would be joining the Dolans'
Knicks. Oh, what might have been.
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JOHN HENDRICKS (DISCOVERY)
Hendricks put in $6mln
to build The Discovery
Channel Telescope,
housed at the Lowell
Observatory in Happy
Jack, AZ. The $48-mln device should be
ready by Nov '11, The AZ Daily Sun
reports. Naturally, Discovery Channel
gets first dibs on any, er... discoveries.
BOB IGER (ABC FAMILY/DISNEY CHANNEL/ESPN)
We could salute this
visionary and dealmaker
who has Miley Cyrus
on his speed dial. Or
we could marvel at
media's best-groomed man. Clothes
don't make the man, it's true, but Iger
looks smashing in a suit.
JAMES COX KENNEDY (COX)
We greatly admire
Kennedy, 62, for his
philanthropy. His net
worth jumped mightily
this year, to $6.2bln,
tying him with Rupert Murdoch and
others for #38 on the Forbes 400 list.
GREG MAFFEI (LIBERTY MEDIA, QVC, STARZ)
Liberty Media CEO
Maffei, 49, earned a
cool $88mln last year,
making him the
top-paid CEO in the
country. Drinks on you, Greg... forever!
DR JOHN MALONE (DISCOVERY, STARZ,
QVC, TIME WARNER CABLE, DIRECTV)
The good Doctor is having a good '10.
His disappointing net
worth of $2bln is up
nearly $1bln this year.
Restructuring (combining
Liberty Entertaindecember
2010
ment with DirecTV) was responsible for
much of that. In August, WSJ reported
he'd purchased a 300K-acre cattle
ranch 150 miles E of Santa Fe. Please,
no jokes about being bullish.
LES MOONVES (SHOWTIME/CBS
COLLEGE SPORTS)
Moonves is such a
professional, we hear
that if he has to cancel
The Talk, the CBS
show co-hosted by his
wife Julie Chen, he won't even have to
sleep on the couch. Well, not for more
than a few weeks.
RUPERT MURDOCH
(FOX CABLE)
The 79-year-old took
our '08 tip to increase
risk in his portfolio (he
bought the WSJ as a result). Like many
of us, his net worth inched up in '10.
Unlike many of us, that inch put him at
$6.2bln instead of $6bln, Forbes says.
BRIAN ROBERTS
(COMCAST)
Comcast's Chairman/
CEO has grown the
MSO to a company
with $36bln in revenue. Yet we're baffled
by reports that after the NBCU deal is
completed he plans to replace the NBC
peacock with a cheese steak. " It's all
about being local, " he says.
OPRAH (OWN)
Oprah's net worth
jumped from '09's
$2.3bln to a respectable
$2.7bln. Best
news is Discovery's press team
finally can supply a photo. And such
a nice one, too.
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