Ed Carroll Re-Ups as COO at AMC Networks

By Jon Lafayette
( Broadcasting & Cable )
published

AMC Networks said that COO Ed Carroll has signed a new four-year
contract that would keep him at the company until the end of 2016.

The new deal sets Carroll's minimum annual base salary at
$1.1 million. He is also eligible for a discretionary bonus targeted at 115% of
his salary. He may also get annual long-term cash and/or equity awards worth a
target of $2.25 million. Bonuses and awards are determined by the company's
compensation committee.

Carroll
served as general manager of IFC and Bravo until Cablevision's Rainbow
programming unit -- the forerunner of AMC Networks -- sold Bravo to NBC in 2002. He
has overseen IFC since its inception. He's held his current post since 2009.

Jon Lafayette
Jon Lafayette

Jon has been business editor of Broadcasting+Cable since 2010. He focuses on revenue-generating activities, including advertising and distribution, as well as executive intrigue and merger and acquisition activity. Just about any story is fair game, if a dollar sign can make its way into the article. Before B+C, Jon covered the industry for TVWeek, Cable World, Electronic Media, Advertising Age and The New York Post. A native New Yorker, Jon is hiding in plain sight in the suburbs of Chicago.