Brian Williams signed a new long-term contract with NBC

This is a good day for Brian Williams. Not only is the anchor of the "Nightly News," NBC has more than 9 million viewers attracted his work for ten years and has every night, but he set to sign a new long-term contract to their functions continue, depending on Los Angeles Times. Including a compensation plan is included more than 10 million euros per year.

"It is likely, though I admit I am a single currency," the 55-year-old Williams told the newspaper: "I am, I think, developed and put on this earth to do what I do now - and it is. to eat, sleep and breathe fiction and new in the world every night I happened to be delivered, and then on 6.30 and I get to hear the audience, and get to know. "

" Brian is one of the greatest journalists of our time, "the president of NBC News Deborah Turness wrote in a memo to employees, according to the New York Post." He led the organization on all important news events of Hurricane Katrina last ten years in his first year in the anchor chair in his exclusive interview with Edward Snowden this year, through elections, wars, natural disasters, tragedies and triumphs. In all these cases, the audience has led to the heart of stories, most of them in a way that is unique its role is. "

That's a big job to have, and that someone else in NBC apparently have trouble in the near future.

To relativize the balance, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average salary of-the-pack for journalists, correspondents and news broadcasts analysts was $ 37,090 per year in 2012.

It was an expensive year for NBC to retain top talent. In September, the network has signed a new contract with Matt Lauer, in the year to stop about 20 million US dollars Hosting the Today Show.

Sometimes the desire to keep someone who seems to be winning the classification, is another story. NBC was in a major conflict in 2010, as Conan O'Brien took over Tonight Show with Jay Leno involved. For an immediate reduction of the public, the network O'Brien and Leno has until this year back when he and Jimmy Fallon took over.

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