Warner Bros. Discovery doesn’t have a name for its planned stand-alone TV-centric biz, but it does have a proposed CEO: Gunnar Wiedenfels, WBD’s iron-fisted money manager.
As CFO at Warner Bros. Discovery, Wiedenfels has been the face of the cost-cutting that has ensued since David Zaslav and the Discovery gang took the reins of the merged Discovery-WarnerMedia in Burbank in April 2022. As such, Wiedenfels often been the focus of frustration among employees in his role as the instigator of belt-tightening and other massive changes including a series of layoffs.
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Indeed, the compensation committee of WBD’s board of directors praised Wiedenfels’
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