by Dyana Carmella

The brutal three-month Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike has finally ended.

“Our membership has voted and writers can go back to work,” WGA West president Patric Verrone said. “This was not a strike we wanted but one we had to conduct in order to win jurisdiction, and establish appropriate residuals for writing in new media and on the Internet. Those advances now give us a foothold in the digital age.”

In a study issued by Daily Variety, $1.9 billion was lost in episodic production for more than 70 broadcast and cable primetime shows, a whopping $800 million in above-the-line expenditures and $1.1 billion in below-the-line salaries.

Although the Strike negatively impacted the economy, we are all grateful and relieved that things will surely start to turn around.

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