Evening Edition: Hollywood Premieres First Writers Strike In 15 Years

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🗓️ 2 May 2023

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The Writers Guild of America has gone on strike, with Hollywood union writers calling for better pay when working on streaming show productions, which have reportedly greatly reduced writers' compensation and job security. The last writers' strike occurred in 2007 and lasted 100 days, and with massive negotiations underway, people can expect some of their favorite late-night shows and scripted series to be disrupted. The Wall Street Journal reporter Joe Flint covers the media and entertainment industry and joins the podcast to discuss how negotiations fell apart, why the writers' union is concerned about streaming shows, the studios' negotiation sticking points, and what effects this may have on the entertainment Americans know and love. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Abby Hornissette. I'm Ben Dominic. I'm Dana Perino. And this is the Fox News rundown.
0:08.1	Tuesday made the second 2023. I'm John Saasie. The picket lines have formed in Hollywood as
0:14.5	writers of some of our favorite TV shows and movies are officially on strike. And it may not be
0:19.8	long before you notice the effects. You will notice it tonight when you go to turn on Stephen
0:24.8	Cobair or Jimmy Kimmel or Jimmy Fallon and see a rerun there. The late night shows are all going
0:31.5	to go into reruns at least for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile on the Fox News channel,
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1:03.9	The writer's guild of America and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television producers,
1:07.4	which represent studios and streaming services have failed to reach a deal. That means for the
1:12.9	first time since 2007, there's a writer strike, but this one's a little bit different. We've seen
1:18.0	a number of labor disputes lately from rail workers to nurses to airline pilots and the people
1:23.1	who are the brains behind some of Hollywood's biggest shows have a dispute on their hands as well.
1:27.8	There's been a lot of changes in the entertainment industry, the explosion of streaming platforms being
1:32.8	the predominant one. We're speaking today with Joe Flint. He's a median entertainment reporter from
1:36.7	the Wall Street Journal based out of Los Angeles. So on the one hand, this is a great time to be a TV
1:42.5	writer or movie writer. You could argue because there's so many different platforms out there to make
1:47.5	shows and movies for. Conversely, the entertainment industry, the giants, Netflix, Warner Brothers,
1:54.2	Discovery, Paramount, they're all still navigating this new era of streaming and not everyone is
2:01.2	having great success at it. Netflix obviously is doing well, but in Disney Plus is not profitable,
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