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August Screen Actors Guild’s Residual Payments
Type 1988 (millions) % change from 1987 * Television residuals--domestic TV $10.1 +22% (for reruns of TV shows in U.S.) * Television residuals--foreign TV $1.8 +8% (reruns of TV shows outside U.S.) * Pay TV/cable, video tape/disc $.047 +21% (per broadcast over these media) * Feature films aired by free TV $3.1 n/a (network broadcast of films) * Films seen on pay TV and videos $5.4 +215% (films bought/rented on tape/cable)
NOTE: Residuals are payments to actors for multiple TV airings of his or her film or TV work.
SOURCE: SAG audits
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