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Article: SAG stance sends pilots to AFTRA.( Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists)
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- Daily Variety
- Article date:
- November 26, 2008
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The strike saber-rattling by the Screen Actors Guild is sending the studios into the arms of its rival, AFTRA, for pilot season.
The prospect of SAG going on strike by mid-January, just as primetime's pilot season starts in earnest, is ensuring that more broadcast network pilots will be produced under AFTRA contracts than under SAG pacts next year, top studio brass confirm.
Over the long term, SAG's aggressive stance in this round of contract negotiations seems likely to cost the guild significant market share among primetime skeins.
"If they're about to go on strike in mid-January, why would we not do deals with AFTRA wherever possible?" said a ...