Here’s the quote that caught our eye: For January and February of the new year, the preliminary numbers “are encouraging,” Mr. Swallen said, with spending for television commercials and online ads — and to a lesser extent, radio spots — is “improving at a faster rate than magazines and newspapers are.” It’s from the New [...]
Is it cause and effect, or just coincidence? Either way, it’s confirmation of some really bad news. According to Backstage, ten years after the Commercials Strike: One longtime commercial casting director (speaking anonymously) says she cast far more nonunion jobs—60 to 70 percent—than union jobs last year. This is a reversal of the situation a [...]
Last week was one of the best yet in the rebound, according to FilmLA. Permits for on location work were up 9% over 2008. It was the sixth week out of the last seven that permits were up, and the Los Angeles Times says the fourth quarter of the year will come in at a [...]
You may remember back last summer, when AFTRA held its convention in Chicago one of the decisions was to appoint a high level committee to meet with Actors Equity, to work on what was described at the time as “closer cooperation” between the unions. Some saw that as a sign that AFTRA and Equity might [...]
OK, so we’re not fans of the non-union MSNBC. And we think of the 2000 Commercials Strike more in terms of it being a disaster than anything else. But Keith Olbermann earned a couple of points on our scorecard with his spin on the Tiger Woods debacle.
E-mailed by SAG this afternoon: Don’t Miss this SAG General Services Agreement Seminar on “What You Need to Know About Your Agency Contract Before Signing It” Wednesday, December 2, 2009 What: Screen Actors Guild National Agency staff will hold a bi-coastal educational seminar on general service agreements, or GSAs (i.e. the contracts that ATA/NATR agents [...]
