Entertainment, Sports and the Arts

KM&M's practice in the fields of entertainment, sports and arts uniquely combines services in the traditional facets of labor and employment law with a highly specialized leadership role in entertainment industry labor relations. This dynamic practice includes:

• Counseling and representing employers operating broadcast television, cable television and radio networks, theatre producers and producers for broadcast, cable and public television and the Internet concerning all issues arising from the employment of performers, writers, directors and technical personnel;

• Negotiating collective bargaining agreements on behalf of networks, stand-alone stations and independent producers covering programming produced for network television, public television, cable television, radio, the emerging world of digital cable and convergent television-Internet technologies;

• Representing clients in the fields of professional and collegiate sports, as well in the broadcasting of sporting events, in matters ranging from negotiating key employment contracts and collective bargaining agreements to representing management interests in labor arbitrations and National Labor Relations Board proceedings;

• Handling labor and employment matters for enterprises devoted to music, theater, dance, children's programming and public television.

KM&M's clients in the fields of entertainment, sports and arts include: Viacom Inc.; MTV Networks Inc. (MTV, Nickelodeon, VH1, TNN, CMT, TV Land, Games and Sports); CBS; Comedy Central; Warner Music Group (Warner Brothers, Atlantic and Elektra Records); St. John's University; Sesame Workshop; The Jim Henson Company; Thirteen-WNET New York/New Jersey Public Television; Jazz at Lincoln Center; WETA Washington Public Television; the American Ballet Theatre; and the Paul Taylor Dance Company.