NBC pays for Matt Lauer’s helicopter rides to work

[jakeXT]

NBC is so determined to keep “Today” host Matt Lauer happy after its rocky patch with the show, it’s agreed to foot the bill for helicopters to fly him to the Hamptons and back.

In June, Lauer extended his lucrative $20 million-a-year deal with NBC News to remain a “Today” co-host through 2016, following speculation that he would leave the show in the wake of the storm over the brutal departure of Ann Curry in 2012.

As part of the deal, NBC agreed to pay for Lauer to chopper out to the Hamptons, where he has a 40-acre horse farm in Water Mill and a nearby mansion, reportedly worth $15 million, in which he lives year-round with his wife, Annette Roque, and their children.

A source told us: “NBC News chiefs want to do everything to keep Matt happy. They believe ‘Today’ has turned a corner and he is the key to its continuing success. They agreed to pay for his helicopter flights to the Hamptons and back, so he can spend more time with his family.”

http://pagesix.com/2014/09/03/nbc-pays-for-matt-lauers-helicopter-rides-to-work/

[Fred Sanders]

1. Holy moneybags, Batman, $20 million a year to flap your gums for an hour a day?

No wonder the mass media is beholden to the corporations that buy those expensive ads.

Corporate propaganda and doing the corporate political will is what pays the bills, it is a symbiotic relationship that no man can break.

[djean111]

4. And that, my dears, is why I sincerely doubt Citizens United will be overturned.

Can't shoo the pigs away from that trough.
But Citizens United will be used as a fund-raising device - Beat the Kochs! Beat Citizens United! MATCH THEIR MONEY!!!!!

[underpants]

2. He's gotta be rested so he can give the newest trends in smoothies

[Atman]

3. Absolutely obscene.

Fire his ass and hire some unknown pretty-boy who'd be thrilled to work for a couple hundred g.