The Directors Guild deal with the producers, with the major focus being on digital media, has now been ratified by the members. This was the deal that set the grounds for the eventual WGA-AMPTP deal.  The DGA did not release the final votes tally but said it received overwhelming approval, reports AP. According to Michael Apted, president of DGA in the statement, “We won important gains...We also set a series of important precedents crucial to our survival in this digital age—among them, jurisdiction in new media, a doubling of the home video rate as it applies to electronic sell-through, and the establishment of a gross based payment in ad-supported streaming while maintaining our historic fixed residuals where there is continued uncertainty about actual grosses.”

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