your favorite shows. there was no deal between the writers guild of america and the studios before a midnight deadline. the picket lines are expected this afternoon. at the heart of the negotiationes is compensation for streaming shows. writers are asking for better pay but studios claim this is a difficult economic climate for the entertainment industry. so late night shows they will see the most immediate hits, several hosts spoke out in solidarity with the union last night. jimmy fallon told one reporter how it will affect his show. if there is a strike do you go dark? if there is a strike, yeah, i think we will, yeah. i think we will go dark. whatever i can do to support the guild. i am actually in the writers guild as well, so, yeah, i couldn t do the show without them and i support my whole staff. cnn s vanessa yurkevich is outside the ed sullivan theater in new york where the late show is filmed. what are the holdups or what were the sticking points before the midnight dea
should see those writers on strike. john? vanessa yurkevich outside the ed sullivan theater. thank you so much. some more context here, many writers say a lack of job opportunities combined with the low pay makes the current situation simply unsustainable. for media and tech companies a weak advertising market that has driven stocks down and has triggered deep cost cuts including layoffs. almost all writers say they are on board with this strike. last month 98% of the writers guild of america members voted in favor of t this is the first strike since 2007. that one cost roughly $2.1 billion it lasted 100 days. so as we noted late night tv will see the first impact, all those shows, jimmy kimmel live, tonight show starring jimmy fallon, saturday night live depend on writers with fresh material in realtime and they are going to go dark as you heard from jimmy fallon and we could soon see run runs. we also for better or worse are going to see more reality tv.
that s the relationship that we had. i think the staff was, you re all in. all that s a credit tocharismat. i would be in my office, and all of a sudden i would feel the jolt of electricity and i would look back and he d be in my doorway. from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it s the late show with david letterman! we re now in the big room. we can t celebrate figure the way we used to. we ve got to be the show that doesn t have mistakes. if you think about it, all i really did was take the summer off. but at 11:30, letterman fans were worried that he was going to be neutered, defanged, that he wouldn t be the hip, subversive, kind of nasty guy. ladies and gentlemen, here he is, bill murray, bill?
didn t even notice, no punches left to roll with you got to keep me focused when the show moved from nbc to cbs, we were all going to the ed sullivan theater. it felt like a viking ship. everyone was rowing.
that. very sophisticated predecessors that melted into what became their signature sound and development. you know, willie, i love the red sox, you love the yankees, i love the beatles, you love the stones. some fighting words in this mccartney piece. you are by definition a blues cover band. that s what rock n roll is. in your conversation is so fascinating and i love your role interviewing music icons and getting to the bottom of their stories. you look back at given their legacy, the beatles are well-earned, how short their run together actually was. they exploded, they landed at the ed sullivan theater and