Sony tentatively wins legal fight with CBS to take over Jeopardy!-Wheel of Fortune...

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/bu...dy-1236187440/

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled today in Sony's favor after Sony Pictures Television sued last October alleging that CBS Media Ventures failed to live up to its contract to distribute Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune to local TV stations in the United States and entered into unauthorized distribution deals overseas. CBS countersued a month later. “The Court believes that Sony had the right, in its discretion, to terminate the distribution agreements in August 2024,” Judge Kevin Brazile wrote in his tentative ruling. “The evidence shows that the agreements limit licensing agreements to a two-year period, but that CBS had made a number of agreements in Australia and New Zealand for a longer period of time.” CBS Media Ventures responded in a statement: “This is only a preliminary ruling based on partial evidence, not the outcome of the full case. We’re confident once all the evidence is heard at trial, we will prevail on the merits. In today’s ruling, the court itself recognized the balance of harm tips in CBS’s favor, so we will ask the appellate court for a stay pending our appeal.”