Late-night shows are dark, and television show productions are on hold. It’s just the beginning as the Writers’ Guild of America strike gets underway.
It’s just the beginning as theUnion members are on strike after failed negotiations with top production studios like Disney, Discovery-Warner, Netflix, Amazon, and more.
Among their demands are better wages, upgrades to compensate for the increase in streaming and regulation of artificial intelligence. Rebeca Gomez is a lecturer in screenwriting with the Film and Media Studies at University of Texas at San Antonio.In fact, for the 5th consecutive year,“We are constantly trying to incentivize people to come make their movies here. We’re trying to get them top produce their television shows here,” Gomez said.If this one goes longer, Gomez said there could be major consequences.
“We have a number of really solid burgeoning film programs,” Gomez said. “Ours at UTSA, the one at UIW {University of Incarnate Word}, the ones at the community colleges. It impacts our students for sure, and it impacts the community at large.”Alexsis Page has been a News Producer at KSAT since 2019. A former military brat, she was born in Killeen, raised in El Paso, but calls Lawton, Oklahoma, home.
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