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‘Jeopardy!’ & ‘Wheel of Fortune’ Legal Shocker: CBS Loses Out To Sony In Court Battle Over Rights To Distribute Game Shows


The thorny legal issue over who gets to distribute long-running game shows Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune has an update. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction to Sony Pictures Television in the case, effectively denying CBS’s bid to block the former from distributing these high-profile shows. The court, led by […]

'CBS A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has granted a preliminary injunction to Sony Pictures Television in the case, effectively denying CBS ’s bid to block the former from distributing these high-profile shows. One example it gave was from January when Procter & Gamble stopped advertising, suggesting that Paramount’s inability to renew its deal with ratings data provider Nielsen was in part responsible. and Wheel of Fortune, to the 200+ stations that license and count on this programming in the U.S. and around the world, and the millions of fans who tune in to these beloved game shows every week,” a spokeswoman told Deadline.

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