BUSINESS NOTES WRITERS WILL MEET TO REVIEW CONTRACT.Leaders of the Writers Guild of America The Writers Guild of America is a term often referring to the joint efforts of the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, west. Jointly, the two guilds act as the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and plan to meet today to approve the tentative contract reached last week with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The board of WGA WGA Windows Genuine Advantage (Microsoft) WGA Writers Guild of America (union for screenwriters) WGA Wise Giving Alliance (Better Business Bureau) WGA wheat germ agglutinin West and the council of WGA East are expected to meet by videoconference to approve the deal and refer it to WGA's 11,000 members for a ratification vote. The three-year tentative contract, reached Friday, includes $41 million in increased residuals and minimum payments for Hollywood's writers. - Daily News Brilliant Digital sells subsidiary Brilliant Digital Entertainment Inc. shed its subsidiary The Auction Channel on Monday. In selling the company to MetroChannels, BDE See Borland Database Engine. hopes to redirect cash toward its other projects, chiefly 3-D animation and Internet advertisement. Terms of the cash deal were not announced. - Daily News Disney Internet picks ad sales VP NORTH HOLLYWOOD - James Keplesky was named vice president, advertising sales for the ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. branded properties of the Walt Disney Internet Group The Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) oversees several websites owned by The Walt Disney Company and its subsidiaries. [1] The division's Disney Online unit operates disney. , including ABC.com, ABCNews.com and Enhanced TV Enhanced TV (ETV) is one example of interactive TV. It is used in particular in reference to Two-Screen Solutions TV + PC services. Generally users of these ETV services have their TV and computer in the same room, and navigate their web browser to a particular program-specific Web , it was announced Monday. Keplesky will be responsible for establishing and implementing all sales policies and strategies for these properties as they expand and restructure their online entertainment and news content under a new ABC.com site that will be launched in September. Keplesky has been with ABCNews.com since October 2000. Before that, he worked at The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Magazine Group, with Golf Digest Golf Digest is a monthly golf magazine published by Advance Publications in the United States. It is a generalist golf publication covering recreational golf and men's and women's competitive golf. and Tennis magazines from 1984 until 1992, when he joined Disney Publishing's sales force. - City News Service Universal Studios names a new VP UNIVERSAL CITY - Universal Studios named Frederick D. Huntsberry senior vice president and chief financial officer. Huntsberry previously was chief financial officer, Universal Pictures. He assumes responsibility for worldwide financial activities for the Universal Studios Group, which also includes Universal's global recreation business. He will continue to oversee all financial activities for Universal Pictures. Huntsberry will report to Vincent Grimond, senior executive vice president, operations and finance, Universal Studios; and Stacey Snider, chairman, Universal Pictures. - City News Service Treasury-bill rates drop in short term WASHINGTON - Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities fell in Monday's auction, with the rate on six-month bills hitting its lowest point in seven years. The Treasury Department sold $10 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 3.660 percent, down from 3.885 percent last week. An additional $9 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 3.62 percent, down from 3.860 percent. The three-month rate was the lowest since April 23 when the bills sold for 3.655 percent. The six-month rate was the lowest since Feb. 28, 1994, when the rate was 3.61. In a separate report, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year constant maturity Treasury bills, the most popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages, rose to 3.9 percent last week from 3.82 percent the previous week. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. |
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