1.0 link 75928 <![CDATA[WGA Strike Primer: Merry Christmas from Your Friends at the AMPTP]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/wga-strike-primer-merry-c_b_75928.html On Friday, the multinational corporations of the AMPTP broke off negotiations with the Writers Guild. For those watching events, interested in where things stand, let's recap:

1. The AMPTP offer for Internet streaming is $252.94. Unchanged. Well, actually, that's only for hour-long TV shows. Half-hour programs would get $139.15. To be fair, that's not really the offer. If the corporations themselves decide that these reruns are "promotional," then the writers get zero. (In dollar terms that's $0.00.)

2. The AMPTP corporations...

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