From KCRW in Santa Monica, I'm Matt Holzman sitting in for Claudebredessa 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, indie film was all about the art until the studios got in the game.

How will independent film change again now that the studios seem to be backing away?

Plus, watching movies till you drop with the programmers of the Sundance Film Festival.

But first, it's the Hollywood News Caravan. Go nowhere.

It's the business from KCRW.

A recent survey has got to have executives of the big broadcast networks going into a deep, deep

state of denial. According to ABI research, when TV goes digital next February and analog

sets become useless boxes, three million Americans may just stop watching television altogether.

The study reports that 70% of those who watch TV the old-fashioned way

said they'll attach a converter box to their TVs before the digital switchover. 10% said

they'll get cable or satellite. But 20% said they'll just let their sets fade into

obsolescence. Now it's possible that a lot of those are secondary TVs in the kitchen or

bedroom, but you have to believe that the people at the networks are shaking in their

prodas at the thought of their beloved TV sets being used as planters or fish tanks. Elsewhere,

the Screen Actors Guild, struggling to finally get things moving towards a TV and movie contract

with producers,

has asked a federal mediator to step in. If the mediator doesn't succeed in hammering out a contract,

SAG is threatening to send a strike vote to members. You'll remember that the trouble all started

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