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For non-commercial use only. webeditors@reedbusiness.com webeditors@reedbusiness.com http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000684?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:14:36 EST WGA Writers Strike: WGA West exec director issues statement -- WGA West exec director David Young has issued a strong defense of the writers strike, and gone on record as supporting SAG's demand that its next contract end in 2011, not 2012. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118000584?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:24:49 EST WGA Writers Strike: Panel tries to find out if comic broke strike rules -- Jay Leno was grilled by a WGA West panel Wednesday as part of a disciplinary proceeding that the guild has brought against "The Tonight Show" host stemming from last year's strike. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999952?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:30:00 EST WGA Writers Strike: Comedian under fire for strike-era monologues -- A year has passed, but the WGA West is still reviewing the possibility of disciplinary action against Jay Leno for "Tonight Show" monologues he delivered while the guild was on strike. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999957?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:30:00 EST WGA Writers Strike: Fallout still felt from writers' walkout -- One year later, the evidence is clear: The WGA strike crippled the film and TV biz at a time when the industry was already caught in the buzzsaw of a radically changing marketplace for Hollywood's wares. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117999950?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:00:00 EST WGA Writers Strike: John McLean gives first interview post-firing -- A year after it ended, the WGA strike remains a landmark event in Hollywood history that still provokes strong emotions. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996433?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:58:37 EST WGA Writers Strike: Feds side with AMPTP over core status -- The WGA strike ended Feb. 12 but the recriminations continue. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117992506?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:28:33 EST WGA Writers Strike: Guild holds first election since writers' strike -- In their first election following the writers’ strike, WGA East members have opted mostly for incumbents, electing 10 members to two-year terms to the ruling WGA East Council.   http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991065?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 15:34:27 EST WGA Writers Strike: Looking back six months after the writer's strike -- At this time a year ago, the town expected that this summer would see the WGA and SAG together in a long painful strike that would have started around the Fourth of July. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117989110?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:47:35 EST WGA Writers Strike: Emmy nominations affected by strike -- The hangover from the writers strike is reflected among the winners and losers in this year's Emmy noms derby. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117987473?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:56:20 EST WGA Writers Strike: Studios are taking a hard line on deals -- Scribes fought long and hard for their future during the WGA strike. Little did they know how tough negotiations would get once the strike ended. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986933?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:10:16 EST WGA Writers Strike: Miken report cites dispute as recession catalyst -- The WGA strike will cost the California economy a projected 37,700 jobs and $2.1 billion in lost output through the end of 2008, according to a report from the Milken Institute. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117986813?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:47:20 EST WGA Writers Strike: Fewer big buys and shortage of shots at stardom -- With budding TV scribes having resumed their battle to break into the industry in a post-strike world, some believe entertainment's new economic landscape has made the climb for the next generation of potential Emmy winners even steeper. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117985045?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Fri, 2 May 2008 20:00:00 EST WGA Writers Strike: Strike means new model of TV production -- The writers strike was about far more than who gets what cut of Internet revenues. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984620?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:59:42 EST WGA Writers Strike: Feature production up by 11%, TV plunged -- Fear of an actors strike pushed first-quarter feature production in Hollywood up by 11%, but TV production plunged due to the WGA strike, according to permitting agency FilmL.A. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984485?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:56:18 EST WGA Writers Strike: Guild under fire for naming names -- The majors and the WGA have gone back to the mat, with the companies filing an unfair labor practices charge against the guild for naming the 28 writers who filed for financial core status during the strike. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984266?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:25:29 EST WGA Writers Strike: Disclosure made in a letter -- In an angry post-strike blast, the WGA has publicly identified 28 writers -- most of them working on soap operas -- who resigned from the guild during the work stoppage by filing for financial core status. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983670?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Mon, 7 Apr 2008 19:31:04 EST WGA Writers Strike: Studio stockpiling keeps feature films on track -- Post-strike TV production in Hollywood is getting back on its feet -- with the exception of pilots, production of which remains well behind the levels of a year ago, according to permitting agency FilmL.A. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983398?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 19:16:06 EST WGA Writers Strike: Top sellers say global TV crisis was averted -- While the TV business community gathered at NATPE in Las Vegas in January to pontificate about "what if," attendees at the upcoming Mip confab will be discussing "now what." http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983393?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:19:14 EST WGA Writers Strike: Reality replaces gaps caused by writers strike -- Richard Woolfe, the ambitious program head at U.K. multichannel web Sky, realized back in January that he had an urgent problem. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983302?categoryid=2821&cs=1&nid=4056 Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:37:54 EST WGA Writers Strike: Net refuses to rehire nine of 20 soap writers -- The WGA East has accused ABC and Corday Prods. of violating the strike termination agreement by refusing to rehire nine of the 20 writers who struck ABC's "All My Children" and Corday's "Days of Our Lives."