Jeff Zucker, who will be president and chief executive of NBC Universal following its sale of a majority interest to Comcast Corp., will make a base salary of $6.3 million in 2010, though his total compensation could be $20 million or more.
According to documents filed in connection with a $4 billion bond offering for NBC Universal -- currently a unit of General Electric -- Zucker is guaranteed a bonus of $1.5 million for “good performance,” but he could get a performance bonus between $2 million and $4.5 million.
The filing also shows that some noteworthy corporate events took their toll on the business. The operating loss from broadcasting the Vancouver Winter Olympics and a charge for killing Jay Leno’s 10 p.m. show combined to sap $223 million from the company's results, according to the documents.
