Agents and indie producers argue incentives alone won’t fix Hollywood

According to Variety, the term “fin-syn” means little to anyone under 45 but evokes for older Hollywood professionals a golden age of mansions, yacht parties and cutting-edge TV.

Variety notes that the FCC’s financial interest and syndication rules required TV networks to purchase programming from independent superproducers such as Norman Lear and Grant Tinker instead of creating the shows internally.