Canadian Politics Today

I don't know who either of them are, so the "recognized person" getting more money doesn't work for me personally.

But in the big picture sense of the media industry, it does seem logical that a better known actor would get more money. 

More locally on the morning news, there was a female news anchor who seemed to be the main anchor.  Then they introduced a guy and gradually he seems to have become the main anchor and she's more like the hostess who introduces him.  Annoys me every morning, but sadly the other station annoys me more for different reasons.