Jay Leno took a 50 percent pay cut

Jay Leno took a 50 percent pay cut

"Jay Leno is taking a paycut from $30 million a year to $15 million to prevent NBC from cutting his ‘Tonight Show’ budget and staff, which they want to do despite the fact that ‘Tonight’ made $160 million in ad revenue last year, one of the very few things on NBC that made any profit at all."

"(NBC's) plan is to attack and demoralize the shows that are actually making money. Phase 2 of the plan is to dig up Johnny Carson and let wolves chew his bones in the parking lot."