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

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

I mean, you really got a rap and be all at.

But prepare yourself for the brakes. Check it out.

This week on the business, the writer's strike has meant reruns, reality, and rancor.

So how will things change now that the strike is over?

We'll talk with Variety's Joe Adelion about the deal

and what it means for television writers and for TV viewers.

Plus, we ask our resident industry analyst, Roger Smith,

when will the digital pie everyone's fighting over finally come out of the oven?

Stay tuned. It's the business from NPR.

After 101 days on strike, $1.3 billion lost by Hollywood dependent businesses, and almost

three quarters of a billion dollars in lost wages to production crews, what exactly

did the writers get for

their and our trouble? Perhaps most notably, a TV writer will get something like $1,500 a year

for each TV episode streamed on the internet. That may not seem like a lot, especially when compared

to what some elite writers gave up in income during the strike. But of course, most of those

on the picket lines were not executive producers or multi-million dollar screenwriters. They were

just writers who make payments on their hondas like everybody else. What else did the strike

do for writers? It established both jurisdiction over the internet and, as variety notes,

a precedent that says that when the web

makes money, writers make money. And that, as the commercial says, is priceless. Moreover, the

...