The streaming economy — and the writer’s place in it — will be a central theme of the upcoming talks between Hollywood studios and the Writers Guild of America. The union’s current contract expires on May 1, and the industry is bracing for a major battle, and what could be the first strike in 15 years. That has the entertainment business growing increasingly anxious.
Directors are warning this will be a tough year for labor talks as studios cut staff and productions.
Digital and streaming producers along with assignment editors at CBS-owned WCCO Minneapolis have voted unanimously to join SAG-AFTRA. The 15 employees started the talks with the union in January 2019. On-air WCCO employees and newsroom producers are already members of the union.
Timothy A. Regler, a Daytime Emmy-winning producer for Judge Judy and other television shows, died of heart disease on June 19 at his home in Carlsbad, Calif. He was 68.
