TV Anchors' Pay: Is It Too Much?

TV Anchors, By The Numbers
This July 27, 2012 photo shows, from left, co-hosts of the "Today" show, from left, Savannah Guthrie, Meredith Vieira, and Matt Lauer during a broadcast of the morning news program from London. NBC is set to "break even" on its Olympics coverage, rather than lose money as previously expected, the head of NBCUniversal said Wednesday, Aug. 1. The company had expected at one point to take a $200 million loss on the London Olympics. NBC paid $1.2 billion for the rights to show the games on TV and online in the U.S. It has said that it sold more than $1 billion in ads, breaking the record of $850 million set during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater)
This July 27, 2012 photo shows, from left, co-hosts of the "Today" show, from left, Savannah Guthrie, Meredith Vieira, and Matt Lauer during a broadcast of the morning news program from London. NBC is set to "break even" on its Olympics coverage, rather than lose money as previously expected, the head of NBCUniversal said Wednesday, Aug. 1. The company had expected at one point to take a $200 million loss on the London Olympics. NBC paid $1.2 billion for the rights to show the games on TV and online in the U.S. It has said that it sold more than $1 billion in ads, breaking the record of $850 million set during the Beijing Olympics in 2008. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater)

For all the buzz about how much television news anchors earn these days--Matt Lauer recently made waves after reportedly signing a $25 million-a-year contract with NBC--a more important question often remains unanswered: are any of these enormous paychecks, in fact, worth it?

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