Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.

Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.

People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.