SAG, AMPTP reach tentative deal

April 17, 2009 SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reached a tentative agreement on a new TV/theatrical contract Friday afternoon. Additionally, SAG claims resulting from force majeure actions taken by the studios and networks during the 100-day writers strike last year -- a major sticking point on the companies' side of the SAG TV-theatrical debate -- have also found a compromise resolution. Back-channel discussions that SAG chief negotiator John McGuire and interim national executive director David White have held with studio and network executives the past few weeks have evidently led to a compromise that the SAG negotiating task force can now recommend to its national board.

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