Who Won the Writers Strike?

WHO WON THE WRITERS STRIKE?
[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: David Carr]
[Commentary] After a long and bitter strike, the writers won, right? True, the writers guild was able to wrest a major concession from management — winning a piece of digital revenues — the kind of victory that has largely eluded organized labor in the past few years. It is equally true, however, that the strike was bad for writers in the short term. The delays caused by the strike prompted the studios to ask themselves a fundamental question about the need to finance all manner of pilots for a traditional upfront extravaganza followed by a traditional introduction in the fall. That system, fairly unchanged through the years, has historically been lucrative for writers. Emboldened by the strike, the studios severed existing contracts with writers, successfully turned over more of their prime-time schedules to reality programming and vowed to hold the line on filming new shows for next season.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/arts/television/12strike.html?_r=1&ref...
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* The writers win the Web
[Commentary] The writers' guild didn't win everything it wanted, but it may have won its own relevance for the future.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/12/EDL9V0DPU.DT...

* Action!
[Commentary] Hollywood appears to have labor peace again. Let's hope the sequel three years from now is better. On points, yes, probably. On principle, certainly. From a practical perspective, maybe not so much.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-ed-writers12feb12,1,...

* On the Air or Up in the Air: The Post-Strike Landscape
With all but the most congenitally gloomy people expecting Hollywood writers to call off their strike tomorrow, execs at all the broadcast nets huddled yesterday to figure out which scripted series could produce more new episodes in what's left of this TV season, which shows should produce new episodes, which shows still have unaired original episodes, which shows to scrap, and which shows it makes the most sense to concede the season and relaunch in the fall.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR200802...