Dec. 31: By Way of Follow-Up
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LA, as a municipality, is responsible for operating public access channels, and no cable company has the right to shut them down until the City has the opportunity to replace the channels.
Jonathan Handel | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment
Mediation between the studio alliance (the AMPTP) and the Screen Actors Guild failed late Friday night, and SAG announced plans to seek a strike authorization vote from its members.
Variety | JOSEF ADALIAN | Posted 04.02.2008 | Business
The wave of euphoria that swept over Hollywood following the end of the WGA strike has been replaced by a whole new set of emotions: anxiety, depressi...
Los Angeles Times | Maria Elena Fernandez, Matea Gold | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
With the strike over, the salvage operation begins. Hollywood lurched back into gear this week, reviving projects sidelined by the three-month labor ...
Roger Wolfson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The groundwork for the writers' strike started with something the town rarely notices: a routine, biannual WGA election.
Variety | CYNTHIA LITTLETON, DAVE MCNARY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
After 14 weeks of warfare, labor peace has come to Hollywood. TV showrunners head back to the office today, and the scribe tribe officially resumes w...
Forbes | Dorothy Pomerantz | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Even Hollywood's rich and famous can't avoid the housing downturn that's sweeping the nation. In Los Angeles, only 4,430 homes were sold in December, ...
Michael Russnow | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment
It's intriguing how the writers' strike rumor mill builds everybody up and then shoots him or her down.
New York Times | MIchael Cieply | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood's writers and production companies eliminated the major roadblocks to a new contract, opening the ...
Variety | Dave McNary | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Before the WGA went on strike, its leaders repeatedly assured members they would retain eligibility within the guild-industry health plan for the dura...
236.com | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
23/6 continues our up-to-the-minute writers' strike coverage, picking up where Deadline Hollywood Daily left off. LATEST: The strike's decomposing pi...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Th-th-th-that's All Folks: Warner Bros announced that because of the WGA Strike, up to 1,000 employees would be getting WARN mailings, which are essen...
Wall Street Journal | Katherine Rosman | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Elie Saab, a design house known for couture gowns that sell at $20,000 and up, has built its brand by loaning dresses to celebrities in hopes they wil...
New York Times | Holly M. Sanders | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
With the Golden Globes curtailed and the Oscars in doubt, movie marketers could lose the coveted Red Carpet to promote their films. As a result of th...
New York Post | Zachery Kouwe | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Sure to delight movie studio chiefs and producers everywhere, the striking Writers Guild of America is about to be struck by its own downtrodden emplo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Mike Huckabee joined Jay Leno tonight as his first guest back since the WGA went on strike. The two spoke about the Huck's sudden success, his past a...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
"Dave has been off the air for eight long weeks because of the writers' strike. Tonight he's back. Oh well, all good things come to an end." That's...
AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Republican Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate sounding a populist theme in Iowa, likely will be forced to cross a writers' picket line if he app...
The Hollywood Reporter | Kimberly Nordyke and Paul J. Gough | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
As Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel plan their return to late-night, their respective networks mostly were keeping mum on plans for the hosts'...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business
Hollywood studios said Friday that striking writers have now lost more in salary and benefits than they had hoped to gain by walking off the job. In ...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
David Letterman doesn't even need writers to have fun with this one. The late-night comic's representatives met with striking writers on Friday in an...
AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Leaders of striking television writers plan to meet Friday with David Letterman's production company in an attempt to reach a separate deal that could...
AP | Lynn Elber | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The People's Choice Awards had the red carpet yanked out from under it Wednesday as fallout from the Hollywood writers strike grew. The ceremony, whic...
Los Angeles Times | Jay A. Fernandez | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The personal is political, as they say, and at times of labor unrest, the professional becomes even more so. In this roiling tempest of competing inte...
AP | David Bauder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Jimmy Kimmel will join NBC's late-night hosts in returning with new shows Jan. 2 in the midst of the Hollywood writers strike, ABC said Tuesday. Kimm...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 01.27.2009 | Media