CBS slams Sony over the Wheel of Fortune & Jeopardy! Rights fittings

Updated with CBS declaration: All games have winners and losers, but CBS now calls Sony Pictures TV so as not to play after the rules when it comes to the dispute over decades old Jeopardy! & Wheel of Fortune Distribution agreements.

On Monday, hours after SPT’s head of games, Shows sent a letter to CBS informing the company that the Tokyo-led media giant takes over the global distribution of the show after a more than 40-year agreement between the parties, Shari Redstone-owned CBS Media Ventures sent a missive to clients and others who said NFW.

The note that I am told is also CBS ‘on-the-record response said on the most dullest terms:

“We are aware that Sony has informed you that it has claimed to assume that the distribution features of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy!And that it has completed CBS’s distribution event. This communication is false, inappropriate and ineffective. Sony has no rights under the distribution agreements to end them, and CBS remains the distributor of the series, regardless of which communication from Sony to the opposite. Any claim from Sony that it has given rise to distribution rights is subject to ongoing litigation and CBS will seek immediate exemption from the relevant courts. All business must continue on the usual course. “

Events move much faster than a round with last danger!

In the time since Sony said this morning that it is now in full control over Wheel and Jeopardy!Paramount came to a new multi-year agreement with Nielsen on Multi-Platform rating and the data-one extra point in violation of SPT since October 31 violation of contract archiving.

You might be asking: What is it to look at that dock?

Previously, 07:03: Doubt about Ryan Seacrest and Vanna White will say the letters CBS this week at Wheel of Fortune, But still the Sharia Redstone-owned company lost just one of its gaming show gold mines, at least according to Sony.

As a legal match continues to boil between Sony Pictures TV and CBS Studios over their more than 42-year-old original offers, the former latter stated on Monday that it will take over “global distribution” of Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! From next week.

“To facilitate an orderly transition of the distribution features for the show, on January 27, 2025, Sony Pictures delivered to CBS Episodes of Shows to broadcast the week of February 3rd to February 9,” notes a letter SPT’s head of game show show Suzanne Prete sent to CBS ‘Wendy McMahon today that Deadline has seen. “We expect CBS to take all the necessary steps to make sure the episodes are delivered correctly to TV stations. Sony Pictures begins the delivery of episodes of the shows to TV stations that start with the episodes scheduled to broadcast the week of February 10th. ”

“Although CBS has failed to respond to our previous requests for collaboration to implement the transition to Sony images of the distribution features, we nevertheless request again at CBS’s collaboration to make this transition as arranged as possible,” the letter may be overly optimistic .

A probable questionable step contractual, gripped by distribution rights, reek of a power play to shake a somewhat stagnant legal situation.

For this, Sony seeks the permission of a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to file a changed complaint to replace the violation of a contract document that the media giant put in the court at Halloween last year. “Instead of living up to its obligations under the parties’ agreements, CBS recently admitted that it signed unauthorized licensing agreements, in general violation of a negotiated, two-year limit for such licenses under the agreements and then paid itself A commission for these agreements, ”Sony accused CBS in his fiery, jury-test-search-archiving full of such self-negotiation.

As changed complaints often are, the 27-page facial is that Sony wants the court to consider being alike to the 19 -page document from last fall. However, there are a few selection additions that can point to where all this is going.

“For example, in January 2025-a top advertiser for the shows in recent years, Procter & Gamble stopped the show in recent years,” says the proposed complaint about “Long-term Damage” for “Goodwill” and cold hard in cash Wheel and Jeopardy! Has some of CBS in Sony’s POV. “Sony Pictures do not yet know why Procter & Gamble made this choice, including because CBS did not succeed in notifying Sony Pictures of this change, but the sudden termination after years of advertising on the show overlaps with CBS ‘lack of renewal of Nielsen and the lack of commercial Assessment data. Procter & Gamble stopped similarly advertising other CBS-SOLD-SHOWS which Flip side, family sweepand People are puzzlingAs everyone would be influenced by the Nielsen-not-renewal. “

CBS Studios did not respond to a comment from the deadline of Sony’s recent acting in the ongoing trial and recess. If they come back to us, this post will be updated.

On November 26, CBS had something to say and it didn’t play.

“Sony is trying to get in court what it couldn’t get at the negotiating table: the rights to the series for free, by finding every apology it can muster,” exclaimed CBS-Hired Attorney’s Weil, Gotshal & Many LLP to Sony Pictures TV Studios, Jeopardy Productions and Califon Productions in a cross -cutting merger that was submitted after Thanksgiving.

As part of the new regime that comes into force now, Sony wants CBS to immediately hand out documents and materials related to the following:

1. Domestic license agreements relating to the show, including any renewals or changes.

2. Agreements related to licenses for shows in foreign territories, including any renewals or changes.

3. Foreign format licensing agreements relating to the show, including any renewals or changes.

4. Advertising of sales agreements relating to the show, including any renewals or changes, and any related interest cards.

5. Current storage reports related to advertising the performances.

6. Current stewardship reports related to advertising the performances.

7. For items 1-4 above, the contact information for CBS’s primary contact in connection with these agreements must.

“Be aware that Sony Pictures reserves all its rights, privileges and remedies,” concludes the two-page correspondence.

Oddly enough, although it is all quite procedure on many levels and a clear chess from Sony’s side, today’s message comes after months of rather sleepy activity on the docket.

All of this has been wondered how ironically the day’s daily double could be? Ken?