Variety: SAG should face the facts

SAG leaders has maintained that members can’t afford to agree to the modest residual coin for new-media reuse because it is so much less than the payments actors receive from traditional on-air repeats of primetime shows.

But that stance refuses to recognize the obvious evidence that the nature of primetime television programming — and its traditional use of reruns as “amortization theater” — is undergoing a historic transformation, fueled by the influence of new digital technologies.

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