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

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This week on the business, a top entertainment lawyer predicts a rough road ahead for what used to be a recession-proof business.

Plus, video games go indie.

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Thank you. The big news of the ongoing mess, that is the Screen Actors Guild, is that there is no news.

After lengthy emergency meetings last week,

a filibuster by hardliners helped foiled an attempt to unseat SAG executive director Doug Allen as

the union's chief negotiator. Since then, Allen has written a letter to SAG's National Board,

proposing that the strike authorization referendum be suspended. Instead, he's suggesting that the producer's

last best and final offer, the one they made last July, be put to the membership for a vote.

Negotiations with producers had foundered over digital content, and you can see where SAG's

obsession over all things digital makes some sense. A new survey from Deloitte found last week that 65% of American consumers now view their PC

as a more important entertainment device than their TV.

If you're over 14 and under 25, that number rises to 75%.

Meanwhile, TV continues its economic freefall. Advertising revenue was supposed to be up by 10% in 2008,

thanks to the presidential election, but wound up flat. Without that pale and bounce, and with the U.S.

economy shrinking, TV ad revenue this year is expected to plunge another 10 to 15 percent.

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