A choose just lately granted CBS a brief restraining order to CBS, blocking Sony from with the ability to take over distribution of the long-lasting syndicated recreation reveals Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune.
What’s the difficulty between Sony and CBS?
The choice got here on Thursday, when Los Angeles Superior Court docket Decide Kevin C. Brazile gave CBS an order that forestalls Sony Photos Tv from assuming distribution of each reveals. Sony mentioned earlier this week that it could start doing so after it claims CBS breached a long-standing contract between the 2, which brought on CBS to file for a restraining order.
In a press release on the information, CBS mentioned that it’s glad the restraining order was given, and that for now, it can proceed to deal with the distribution of episodes to native tv stations.
“We’re happy the court docket issued a brief restraining order towards Sony’s illegal actions,” mentioned a spokesperson for CBS Media Ventures, the corporate’s syndication arm (by way of The Hollywood Reporter). “We are going to proceed to seamlessly distribute Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! to our station shoppers like we’ve for over 40 years.”
In response to the choice, Sony mentioned that it believes it did all the pieces lawfully, and that regardless of the restraining order, implied that the corporate will proceed to attempt to litigate the difficulty, earlier than noting that this isn’t a last resolution in any manner.
The corporate mentioned it “believes it has lawfully terminated the distribution agreements with CBS for the reveals and accordingly assumed all international distribution capabilities. Immediately the court docket has instructed SPT to briefly stop taking up the distribution of the reveals till the Court docket can additional hear from the events on this difficulty within the close to future. To be clear, the Court docket’s order has no bearing on, and isn’t indicative of, the eventual final result of the continuing litigation.”
Sony and CBS’ authorized difficulty stem again to October 2024, when Sony sued CBS for breach of contract, after claiming that CBS was purposely and “egregiously undercutting the worth and profitability of those reveals in favor of its personal self-interest,” to which CBS countersued in November, saying that Sony was merely making an attempt to make use of the court docket system to attempt to get out of its contract and get again rights.