Strike Watch: WGA Postpones Time Warner Center Picket

Updated: To mark the conclusion of the twelfth week into the writers strike the WGA had planned to picket the Time Warner center at Columbus Circle tomorrow from 11 am to 2 pm. That picket, it was announced hours ago, has been postponed. The pickets in general, we noted originally in this post, seemed scaled back somewhat from the fiery first weeks of the strike when it was a daily affair with supportive celebrities supplying cocoa and pizza and bagels. Lately, though, it seemed the large scale rallying has tapered off to one a week. Sherry Goldman, spokesperson for the WGA East emailed FishbowlNY:

”…The reason our ‘large scale rallies’ seemed to be scaled back to one or two per week. It’s because, starting January 2nd, we also needed to have additional picket lines daily at the late night and talk shows. So, in addition to our ‘large scale rally’ — we have pickets Monday – Thursday at:

”The View/All My Children Studios on W. 66 Street from 8:30 am – 10:30 am

”NBC Studios (where Conan O’Brien tapes) from 3-5pm

”The Daily Show studio on 11th Avenue from 4-6pm

”The Colbert Report studio on W. 54 Street from 4-6pm

”These pickets are intentionally smaller — but they are picket lines that guests would need to cross to appear on the shows. We also informational leaflet audience members.

”… So, we are now doing about 17 picket lines per week — only one may be ‘large scale’ but we’re doing more.”

Duly noted.

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