No New Talks Set In TV Writers’ Strike
Picketing By Scribes Continues in Los Angeles, New York Areas
By Linda Moss -- Multichannel News, 11/6/2007 9:28:00 AM
(Strike Photos)
The TV writers’ strike will enter its third day, Wednesday, without any new talks scheduled between the scribes and producers.
The 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America were still off the job Tuesday, after declaring a strike Monday, Nov. 5, following failed negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers.
The last negotiating session, with a federal mediator present, was Sunday night in California.
The WGA East is picketing at different sites each day this week in New York City. On Wednesday, the writers will be at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan, and are scheduled to move to Time Warner Studios/Time Warner Center on Thursday and News Corp.’s headquarters Friday.
On Tuesday its members were at Silvercup Studios in Long Island City, Queens. On Monday, the first day of the strike, they had been manning picket lines at Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan, where NBC has offices and studios.
In California on Tuesday, the WGA West picketed 14 sites, including various studios and media-company offices, in the Los Angeles area.
So far, two Democratic presidential candidates have put out statements in support of the WGA: Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John Edwards.
"The striking Writers Guild members are fighting an important battle to protect their creative rights,” Edwards said. “These writers deserve to be compensated fairly for their work, and I commend their courage in standing up to big media conglomerates. As someone who has walked picket lines with workers all across America and as a strong believer in collective bargaining, I hope that both sides are able to quickly reach a just settlement."
As a result of the strike, late-night shows such as Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have been forced to go into reruns this week.
The WGA and AMPTP can’t come to terms on compensation for the use on content on new-media platforms, or on whether DVD residuals should be increased.
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