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Running Out Of Recent Shows To Repeat, NBC Will Begin Airing Vintage Leno Episodes

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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CBS' and NBC's late-night shows will continue to air repeats the week after Thanksgiving as the Writers Guild of America and studio negotiators return...

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Writers' Strike May Create Opportunities For Smaller Networks: "It's Not A Rerun If You've Never Watched The Show In The First Place"

Variety | MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, JOSEF ADALIAN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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In 1988, a writers strike helped steer viewers to the fledgling Fox network. Now, the 2007 scribe shutdown could give another upstart, the CW, a neede...

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Sam Stein

Top Three Dems Now Refuse To Cross Picket Line For Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The Democratic frontrunners for the presidential nomination have all announced that they will forgo CBS News' upcoming presidential debate unless the ...

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Hollywood Rallies As Strike Drags On

New York Times | Michael Cieply and Brooks Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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un Tzu, the Chinese sage, warned of the danger in prolonged conflict. "Let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns," he wrote in "The Art ...

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Strike Carries Hefty $21.3M/Day Price Tag

Los Angeles Times | Richard Verrier and Andrea Chang | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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As thousands of TV and film writers marched along Hollywood Boulevard in the third week of their strike, film officials put a price tag on the potenti...

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Can The "Daily Show" And "Colbert Report" Survive The Strike?

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The tentpoles of Comedy Central have recorded ratings declines in the first two weeks of the writers' strike. Both "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" ...

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"Lost" Webisodes May Suggest Future Model Of Internet TV

New York Times | Edward Wyatt | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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On the picket lines, striking television and film writers adamantly claim that studios are refusing to pay for the use of writers' scripts on the Inte...

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Staffers Vote To Strike At CBS News

AP | Jeremy Herron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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CBS News writers authorized their union leaders to call a national strike, the Writers Guild of America said Monday, escalating a labor impasse. Abou...

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Strike Has Media Buyers Looking Beyond The Tube

Ad Age | Brian Steinberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The writers strike has media buyers growing cautious about the efficacy of TV advertising in the weeks ahead and in the first quarter of 2008 -- and m...

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As Strike Heads Into Week 3, Fall '08 TV Sched In Jeopardy

New York Post | Holly Sanders | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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The Hollywood writers' strike, which is bringing a premature end to the current TV season, now threatens to delay development of next fall's schedule...

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Colbert Writers Post Latest YouTube Strike Vid

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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It's been noted on this site and on others that the writers' strike is at least producing some great material, as writers left with no creative outlet...

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Letterman To Pay Staff Himself Through End Of Year

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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I've just learned that David Letterman and his producers yesterday morning announced to his Late Show staff that they will be paid through the end of ...

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Gotta Write! Daily Show Writers Just Can't Help Themselves, Smack Down Studios From The Picket Line

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Have you missed your Daily Show fix? Well then enjoy this, the latest creative effort by the striking TDS writers as they clearly can no longer keep t...

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Giuliani: I'll Mediate The Writers' Strike

Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

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The New York Sun's Josh Gerstein reports on Rudy Giuliani's trip to Southern California Tuesday when he was bombarded by media asking him his views on...

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Max Follmer

Writers' Strike Leaves Hollywood's Least Powerful Out In The Cold

HuffingtonPost.com | Max Follmer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Amidst whispers that Hollywood's power agents may be brokering a back channel détente to bring media moguls and striking showbiz writers back to the ...

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Dreamy McStrikey! Unexpected By-Product of the Writers' Strike: Great Material

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Don't the studios wish they could monetize this! One week into the writers' strike and already there are hundreds of thousands of views of strike-related material online.

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Studios Hit Back At WGA Strikers, Threaten Job Cuts

Los Angeles Times | Joseph Menn, Claudia Eller and Richard Verrier | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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A day after Hollywood's writers went out on strike, the major studios are hitting back with plans to suspend scores of long-term deals with television...

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Analyzing The Financials Behind The WGA Strike

Hot Blog | Michael Poland | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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Spotted: T & A On The Picket Line (Read More If You Want To See All Of Her!)

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Spotted at 30 Rock: The hottest T&A duo ever to strut its hallowed halls, aka Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, standing in solidarity against The Man with a ...

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Extended WGA Strike Would Save Networks On Pilot Season Costs

Los Angeles Times | Meg James | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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The nation's major television networks say they are prepared to withstand a strike by the Writers Guild of America lasting three to four months. Some ...

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Hollywood Moguls May Actually Welcome WGA Strike In Light Of Poor TV Season

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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Before the writers and producers get back to the bargaining table Monday, I'd like to share with you my reporting about what the Hollywood moguls are ...

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WGA Authorized To Strike ... As Expected

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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That's what members in the know are telling me. But the vote totals won't be officially announced until Friday at 3 pm. Here's some timing news, accor...

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Hiring Freeze On Writers Begins Early As Strike Looms

Variety | Dave Mcnary | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment

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With a November WGA strike becoming a more distinct possibility, studios have started putting the hiring squeeze on scribes. "We're not financing the...

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