AMPTP

""Hollywood isn't run by liberals, it's run by companies, and you can look for a pretty long time before finding a liberal on the board of directors of any of those companies.""

- Jack Rudoph, Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip

""I know you make a living wage. I fought against it.""

- Jack Donaghy, Thirty Rock

The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers: The collective face of the major studios, which enters into negotiations with Unions in Hollywood and takes a hard line against labor.

During the 2007 Writer's Strike the AMPTP was led by Nick Counter and represented the interests of:


 * 20th Century Fox (Also FOX)
 * CBS
 * Viacom/Paramount
 * Sony
 * Universal (Also NBC)
 * Walt Disney (also ABC)
 * Warner Bros
 * Metro Goldwyn Mayer

AMPTP contracts also cover nearly every studio or production house in Hollywood, but the minor studios are not represented in AMPTP decision-making, and frequently sign separate agreements with the unions during prolonged strikes. These agreements are superseded by the contracts that are ultimately agreed to at the end of these strikes.