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MOTION PICTURE STUDIO, ETC. v. CBS

Civ. A. No. 76-2318.

434 F.Supp. 637 (1977)

MOTION PICTURE STUDIO MECHANICS LOCAL 22 INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES, AFL-CIO, Plaintiff, v. COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

July 27, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas A. Rothwell, Rothwell, Cappello & Berndtson, and John G. Gregg, Washington, D.C., for the plaintiff.

Emanuel Dannett, Graubard, Moskovitz, McGoldrick, Dannett & Horowitz, New York City, for the defendants.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

SIRICA, District Judge.

In early 1976, each of the three major commercial television networks—the American Broadcasting Company ("ABC"), the Columbia Broadcasting System ("CBS"), and the National Broadcasting Company ("NBC")—decided to discontinue entirely the use of film cameras in its Washington, D.C. news operations and to replace them with newly developed miniature electronic television cameras ("minicams"). Each...

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