明らかにする/漏らすd: Jay Leno gave up HALF his salary to save Tonight Show 乗組員 (but he still earns $15m a year)

Jay Leno took a 大規模な 50 per cent 支払う/賃金 削減(する) - 減ずるing his salary to $15million - to save staff 職業s on NBC’s The Tonight Show after 20 従業員s were laid off.

The 62-year-old's 支払う/賃金 削減(する) was a major part of the 網状組織's 20 per cent 削減(する) of the 年次の $100million 予算.

にもかかわらず the 減少(する) in salary, 20 従業員s - 含むing writers and 生産者s - lost their 職業s.

A-list guests: First Lady Michelle Obama laughs during an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 14 August 2012

A-名簿(に載せる)/表(にあげる) guests: First Lady Michelle Obama laughs during an 外見 on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on 14 August 2012

The show 苦しむd losses when it was moved from its 11.35pm slot to primetime in 2009. It was moved 支援する to its 初めの time after poor ratings and 落ちるing advertising.

NBC’s entertainment 長,指導者 Robert Greenblatt told the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物? the 予算 削減(する)s were 器具/実施するd to recoup the extra millions it spent moving Leno to primetime.

He 明らかにする/漏らすd the moment he sat 負かす/撃墜する with the comedian to talk about the 未解決の changes to the 網状組織, which has been 戦う/戦いing a 減少(する) in viewership and advertising.

'I went to his office and we sat 負かす/撃墜する and I said, "We have to be smart about how we do this show. We are in a difficult place at the 網状組織",' Greenblatt said. 'He understood.'

Leno - who 延長するd his 契約 until 2014 - said in an email to the paper: 'We are just going to work harder and more efficiently. Our 職業 is to be sure that 非,不,無 of this shows up on 審査する.'

Popular: Kristen Bell appears on NBC's 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' where she talks about her relationship with fiance Dax Shepard and promotes her new film 'Hit and Run' on August 16

Popular: Kristen Bell appears on NBC's 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' where she 会談 about her 関係 with fiance Dax Shepard and 促進するs her new film '攻撃する,衝突する and Run' on August 16

Leno 報道によれば brings home an other $15 to $20 million a year from personal 外見s and other gigs.

Since Leno 埋め立てるd the show after Conan O'Brien took over in 2010, its ratings have dipped わずかに but it is still the number one late-night program.

にもかかわらず its success, The Tonight Show only manages to break-even, によれば the Times.

The cutbacks are the 最新の 議論の的になる move at NBC after the 網状組織 was 広範囲にわたって criticised for running the Olympics on a tape 延期する and bosses 直面するd 非難 for axing Ann Curry from the Today show.

によれば the Times, the show's 週刊誌 予算 is the same as what it was when Leno went prime time during the 2009 to 2010 television season.

Comcast 計画(する) to 減ずる the shows 週刊誌 予算 from $2.3 million to $1.7 million, which is the same 予算 it operated under before Leno's 出発.

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