AMPTP: WGA's new-media claims misleading

December 01, 2008 In an afternoon "fact sheet" e-mailed by the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers, the group fired back at the WGA, which filed an arbitration claim on Nov. 19 claiming not one penny has been paid for new media residuals agreed upon in February in the scribes' new contract. The arbitration filing came the day before SAG and the AMPTP were set to sit down with a federal mediator after months of a stalemate over the actors union's TV/theatrical contract. The WGA said there is no connection between its arbitration filing and the meeting the AMPTP had with SAG and the federal mediator and pointed out that "the AMPTP apparently had no qualms about announcing its 'deal' with the IATSE on the day prior to the mediation with SAG, obviously timed to impact on those discussions."

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