• Ad Age, Monday, December 5, 2005 10:45 AM

Advertising Age's annual salary survey reveals some interesting findings. Chief among them: Cable executives are currently the most highly rewarded in media, by far. Topping the list by a wide margin is Comcast president-CEO Brian Roberts, who took home $33.5 million last year in total compensation. His rival at Cox Communication, president-CEO James Robbins, came in at $29.4 million. Both executives clobbered such media-industry notables as Sumner Redstone ($28.3 mil), Rupert Murdoch ($23.6 mil), and Robert Iger (a paltry $11.9 mil). Way down the list were toppers at newspaper and magazine publishing companies. One surprise, noted Ad Age, was that Anthony Ridder, chairman-CEO of embattled Knight Ridder, was at the very low end of the compensation scale at $1.7 million.

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