It’s been over a week now since the Writers Guild of America (WGA), the union that represents tens of thousands of writers in television and film, went on strike to protest wages and lack of transparency from the studios that they work with. In the WGA’s negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), the association representing studios, much has been made of the lack of revenue sharing as a result of the advent of streaming, with writers genuinely not knowing how much money is made from the shows they work on once they hit the streamers that many consumers use today. So how is revenue attributed with streamers, particularly given the vast amount of material they release year-to-year? How are budgets being set nowadays as opposed to previously? What kind of push-and-pull is there for studio-affiliate producers to work with those they oversee and those who oversee them?

Today on AirTalk’s weekly television segment, we try and breakdown what we know about the AMPTP’s stance on the current WGA negotiations with Bull's Eye Entertainment founder Tom Nunan and David Offenberg, associate professor of entertainment finance Loyola Marymount University.

We reached out to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for comment but they declined to join.