{"id":694,"date":"2017-07-27T15:43:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/07\/27\/sky-chief-gets-11-5m-share-payout-as-it-reports-profits-slide\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T15:43:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T13:43:47","slug":"sky-chief-gets-11-5m-share-payout-as-it-reports-profits-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"Sky chief gets \u00a311.5m share payout as it reports profits slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcaster to hire 300 new R&amp;D staff to fight Netflix and Amazon challenge amid rise in Premier League costsThe chief executive of Sky, Jeremy Darroch, is cashing in \u00a311.5m in shares, the company announced as it reported a hefty fall in annual profits.Darroch and Sky\u2019s finance chief, Andrew Griffith, are to sell a combined 1.9m shares, worth \u00a318.3m at Thursday\u2019s share price of \u00a39.65, which were awarded as part of Sky\u2019s long-term incentive plan. In 2015 and 2016, Darroch\u2019s total remuneration was \u00a317.9m and \u00a34.7m respectively. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2017\/jul\/27\/sky-tech-netflix-amazon-profits-premier-league\" target=\"_blank\">Sky chief gets \u00a311.5m share payout as it reports profits slide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcaster to hire 300 new R&amp;D staff to fight Netflix and Amazon challenge amid rise in Premier League costsThe chief executive of Sky, Jeremy Darroch, is cashing in \u00a311.5m in shares, the company announced as it reported a hefty fall in annual profits.Darroch and Sky\u2019s finance chief, Andrew Griffith, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}