From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

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But first on the news banter, no writer's strike, but we may not be getting back to business

as usual for quite some time. Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So the writer strike did not happen.

Let's just note that at the beginning.

Most people in the industry certainly know that and are hugely relieved.

The writers have been getting some great ink.

People are writing that they played this incredibly well. They got a lot

of support from their membership. They laid out their demands. They just managed it very well.

And they got key concessions that were really important to them. Yeah. Some of these concessions are

the additional contributions to their wage and pension plans. They got a family leave option, which is new for writers.

They got additional concessions for the length of time that studios can hold them for a season.

That's basically an acknowledgement that TV seasons have been getting shorter for a lot of shows,

you know, 10, 13 episodes and writers got some concessions on how they, how long they can be held

to contracts.

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