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May, 2nd 2008

By DAVE MCNARY
In a sign of serious progress at the SAG negotiations, the guild and the majors have agreed to extend bargaining on a new feature-primetime deal until next Tuesday.
The SAG talks had been scheduled to conclude Friday after three weeks of no major moves by either side but the guild's willingness to scale back one of its key demands led to both sides deciding at mid-morning to continue talks for another three sessions -- pushing back AFTRA's negotiations for a second time after AFTRA OK'd the delay.

In a joint announcement on Friday -- the 15th day of negotiations -- SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers said they had agreed to extend the talks on a day-to-basis until 5 p.m. Tuesday. The two sides will meet Saturday but not on Sunday.

The two sides gave no reason for the extension but it's understood that SAG's dropped its proposal to double DVD rates, opting instead for hiking the current DVD rate via employer contributions to the guild's pension and health plans.

SAG's initial DVD proposal had been a non-starter for the AMPTP, which insists that those revenues are crucial to staying in the black amid soaring marketing and production costs. The WGA had also sought a doubled DVD rate but ditched the proposal in the last session before it went on strike last fall.

The AMPTP had been scheduled to start bargaining Monday with the American Federation of Television & Radio Artists on a new primetime deal. AFTRA issued a brief statement at mid-day Friday.

"At the joint request of the AMPTP and SAG, AFTRA has agreed to postpone the commencement of its primetime television negotiations until Wednesday, May 7, or sooner," AFTRA said. "The AFTRA Negotiating Committee has granted this second extension in order to give the current negotiations between the AMPTP and SAG more opportunity to succeed."

AFTRA's negotations had originally set to start this week but SAG and the AMPTP announced on April 23 that they had extended the SAG talks for a week.

The move to give the SAG talks more time appears designed to give negotiators another chance to launch the process of give-and-take bargaining that would lead to a deal. It comes two days after the majors went public with their frustration over SAG not having budged from its initial positions -- specifically its demands for doubling of DVD rates, hikes in basic pay rates and terms in new media that are better than what the DGA and WGA negotiated.

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