{"id":364663,"date":"2026-04-05T09:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T09:12:12","slug":"starz-ceo-jeff-hirsch-2025-pay-was-6-7-million-amid-lionsgate-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/364663\/","title":{"rendered":"Starz CEO Jeff Hirsch 2025 Pay Was $6.7 Million Amid Lionsgate Split"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/starz\/\" id=\"auto-tag_starz\" data-tag=\"starz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starz<\/a> chief executive <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jeff-hirsch\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeff-hirsch\" data-tag=\"jeff-hirsch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Hirsch<\/a> saw a pay package of $6.75 million for 2025, a transitional year where the company separated from Lionsgate Studios. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tHirsch received a base salary of $1.16 million; $2.53 million in stock awards; and $2.95 million in incentive plan compensation, according to a proxy statement filed with the SEC. There are no year-earlier figures for comparison as Starz and Lionsgate Studios just separated in May of 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStarz also set its first annual shareholder meeting as a standalone public company for May 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe board, which last fall  inked a new three-year employment agreement with Hirsch through the end of 2028, noted his leadership during the separation, delivery on financial goals and advancing the its growth strategy by\u00a0rebuilding its content library, greenlighting and producing the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/starz-boxing-drama-fightland-curtis-50-cent-jackson-1236432258\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first Starz-owned original series\u00a0Fightland,<\/a>\u00a0securing co-commission partners and improving the content cost structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStarz l<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/03\/starz-layoffs-post-separation-lionsgate-1236761926\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">aid off about 7% of its workforce<\/a> in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tProxies detail the pay of a company\u2019s top five highest paid executive officers. Hirsch\u2019s team includes Alison Hoffman, President of Starz Network, CFO Scott MacDonald, General Counsel Audrey Lee and EVP, Technology, Jason Wyric.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFor 2025, Starz compensation table also listed Jon Feltheimer and Jimmy Barge, chief executive and chief financial officer of the old Lionsgate and currently of Lionsgate Studios, who received pro-rata comp for the year up through the split of, respectively, $224k and $129k.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe proxy also noted a one-time stock option grant worth $3 million to Michael Burns as well as an annual award of performance-based restricted stock units worth $500k to the non-executive board chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starz chief executive Jeff Hirsch saw a pay package of $6.75 million for 2025, a transitional year where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[191703,156,191704,191705,111,139,69,7019,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-364663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-ceo-pay","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-executive-compensation","11":"tag-jeff-hirsch","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-starz","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}