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Discovery Chief David Zaslav Gets $190 Million in Stock Options After Pulling Off WarnerMedia Deal

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Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaIt pays to pull off a massive media merger.Discovery chief David Zaslav is certainly being handsomely rewarded for his role in pulling off the merger agreement between his company and WarnerMedia.

A day before AT&T announced it was spinning off WarnerMedia and combining it with Discovery, Zaslav received 14.8 million stock options on Sunday as part of a contract extension, which the Wall Street Journal reports are worth $190 million.

That value could change, of course, over the course of their eight-year term, particularly if the pact with WarnerMedia fails to bear fruit.

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