WGA Announces No Picket at the Golden Globe Awards
By Matthew Williams
11:35, January 12th 2008
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WGA Announces No Picket at the Golden Globe Awards

On Friday the writers said that they won’t picket the Golden Globe Awards due to the fact that the organizers have changed it now making an event for all the media, not just for NBC.

The change from the exclusively NBC broadcast to all media was caused by a fight among NBC, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Dick Clark Productions, according to the New York Times.

The latter is the company that is responsible for the telecast.

The press association announced on Friday that they will produce the show and that the media will have no restrictions.

The event will take place on Sunday at 6 p.m. in Beverly Hills at The Beverly Hilton.

NBC will still be the one that will broadcast the event.

The press association received an assurance from the Writers Guild of America that they won’t boycott the event outside the news conference, denverpost.com informs.

A statement was released by the press association saying: "Under the new arrangement, there will be no restrictions placed on media outlets covering the press conference," referring to the fact that all media had now access to the event.

When the actors announced that they won’t cross the picket line of the writers the event was transformed from the glamorous ceremony to a conference where the winners will be announced.

According to NBC, at first the Awards was exclusively for the network and it was treated as a news event where money won’t be traded between the press association and NBC.

The association picked NBC Universal's "Access Hollywood" anchors Nancy O'Dell and Billy Bush for the announcements.

The network hoped to stand away from the guild pickets by moving the announcements to the news division. Here the workers have nothing to do with the WGA dispute.

These year’s nominees at the Golden Globe Awards include: Angelina Jolie, Denzel Washington, Daniel Day-Lewis, Johnny Depp, Keira Knightley, Cate Blanchett and George Clooney.



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