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As negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Pictures begin, all eyes in Hollywood are on the possibility of the first writers’ strike since 2007-08.
Chief among them is the demise of TV syndication. The traditional gold mine of scripted television has been gutted by a combination of consumers having more new content to watch, viewing less television and more streaming and there being fewer shows commissioned on traditional TV. This is a key point in what the WGA is looking to change: Streaming has reduced the number of paying opportunities for writers. Factor in the decline of TV syndication and the increasing gaps between the release of new seasons for many shows, and it is not hard to imagine why the WGA is demanding changes to how scribes are paid for streaming content.
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