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The Hardline / Re: Dear Abby: AEA issues with show hand-off
« on: Jan 10, 2009, 04:07 pm »
Here is a response from the original Dear Abby poster:
"Thanks for the input. A combination of wishful thinking and cheapness on the producers part made for a frustrating situation, but it has been resolved. About a week before the take-over needed to happen, the incoming-SM was able to clear his schedule and do the entire end-run without another sub needing to come in. He was signed to an AEA contract (indeed his first) for at least his full-solo week. I’m less clear about what deal was struck for the training time/my overlap period, but in the end was just stretched to thin (and relieved that one competent person would do the take-over) to really push the issue. So after training the new SM for half a week, I left the show in his hands for the other half of the week. It may be that they did sign him on a pro-rated basis for that weekend, or it may be that they’d say I was still technically on contract (since I did not have pro-rated overlap pay, though I turned over the show mid-week).
Sievep, I’m not familiar with an SPT rule that would allow a non-eq to take over as SM. Can you point me to it?"
"Thanks for the input. A combination of wishful thinking and cheapness on the producers part made for a frustrating situation, but it has been resolved. About a week before the take-over needed to happen, the incoming-SM was able to clear his schedule and do the entire end-run without another sub needing to come in. He was signed to an AEA contract (indeed his first) for at least his full-solo week. I’m less clear about what deal was struck for the training time/my overlap period, but in the end was just stretched to thin (and relieved that one competent person would do the take-over) to really push the issue. So after training the new SM for half a week, I left the show in his hands for the other half of the week. It may be that they did sign him on a pro-rated basis for that weekend, or it may be that they’d say I was still technically on contract (since I did not have pro-rated overlap pay, though I turned over the show mid-week).
Sievep, I’m not familiar with an SPT rule that would allow a non-eq to take over as SM. Can you point me to it?"