The MU Chamber Musicians’ television agreement covers musicians playing chamber music, one to a part, without a conductor, where three or more musicians are involved.

The MU Television agreement covers instrumental musicians — not singers — in all other types of engagement needed for television (in vision and in sound only), including rehearsal pianists, plus music writers (copyists) and musical directors where these are not either players who direct the music incidentally to their playing or conductors covered by the ISM agreement.

The MU Television agreement:

This agreement caters for the engagement of musicians (within the scope of the definition above) in two main ways: the Basic 5-Hour Session; and the Discontinuous Recording Session of 3 hours.

1. The Basic 5-hour Session:

This requires the musician to work for 4 hours out of a consecutive 5, with a 1-hour break. It is designed to accommodate a period of rehearsal followed by a live transmission or "as live" recording. The transmission or recording must be continuous, and may not last more than an hour, though there is provision for