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The Business

AFTRA-SAG Split; a 'Miss Guided' Novice Writer

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6676 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2008

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Hollywood's actors' unions file for an untimely divorce. Then, what happens when a novice TV writer gets her own show?

Transcript

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0:00.0

From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Claude Brodesser Ackner, and this is The Business.

0:04.2

So you still want to do the show business, and you think that you got what it takes.

0:09.2

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at, but prepare yourself for the breaks.

0:13.5

Check it out.

0:14.0

This week on the business, Hollywood's actors unions file for an untimely divorce.

0:19.0

Then, what happens to a novice TV writer when she gets her own show?

0:23.2

We talk to Caroline Williams, the creator of the ABC comedy, Misguided.

0:27.8

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan.

0:30.2

Go Nowhere, it's the business from NPR.

0:32.5

Thank you. Oh, no. We're back to labor news.

0:51.0

After 27 years of unhappy codependency, the two largest actors unions, SAG and AFRA, have decided to break up.

0:59.6

At least when it comes to sitting down with Hollywood's producers and negotiating a new contract.

1:03.9

Their current deal expires June 30th.

1:06.2

We'll have more about the actor's attempts to screw up their negotiations even before they begin later in the show.

1:11.8

Speaking of painful divorces, America's top-rated Spanish-language broadcaster, Univision,

1:16.8

maybe in Agua Caliente.

1:19.0

It's facing down $118 million lawsuit from Mexican TV programming provider, Televisa.

1:25.0

The trouble started back in 1992, when Televisa signed an agreement that gave Univision the exclusive right to air Televisa. The trouble started back in 1992, when Televisa signed an agreement that gave

1:29.3

Univision the exclusive right to air Televisa programming in the U.S. for 25 years.

1:35.3

Since then, Univision's primetime audience has nearly tripled, and Televisa says they've been tremendously underpaid.

1:41.3

If Univision loses the suit, 15 of its 20 hours of weekly

1:45.9

primetime programming will evaporate, including three hours of telenovelas every weeknight,

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