NEW YORK, NY November 28, 2007 —Television writers have entered their 4th week of walking the picket lines against studio owners and producers. NBC's "Last Call with Carson Daly" will be the first late-night talk show to defy the strike and resume production. In New York, hundreds of writers and their supporters gathered in Washington Square Park to rally yesterday. WNYC's Richard Hake was there.

REPORTER; Actors Tim Robbins, Gilbert Gotfried, Danny Glover and even presidential democratic candidate John Edwards addressed the writers of New York based shows. They all support writers getting more money when it comes to revenue generated online. Yet the producers say it's unclear whether that format will make any money. David Chase, the creator of the Sopranos, says good ideas make money.

CHASE: It doesn't have to be The Sopranos, it's just anything. Anything that anyone comes up with, any writer comes up with - a line of dialogue or a joke. Those things are used over and over and over again and exploited.

REPORTER: Most of the writers are anxious to go back to work on shows like Letterman, Conan, Colbert, 30 Rock and the Daily Show. Larry Ratzos Loehman writes screenplays, but couldn't help being witty in the text on the picket sign he carried.

LOEHMAN: This sign would have been witty brilliant...but I'm on strike.

REPORTER: For WNYC, I'm Richard Hake.