Sony Pictures Boss Reveals Iconic TV Shows’ Streaming Deals Are “Completely Separate” To Syndicated Pacts originally appeared on Parade.
Sony Pictures Television surprised fans earlier this month when they announced the iconic daytime shows, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, will be available on streaming services for the first time this fall.
Deadline first announced that Sony unveiled a trio of streaming deals for Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune during litigation with CBS over the rights to the shows. The studio made deals with streamers Peacock, Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ to bring the shows to streaming the day after they air, starting with the 2025-2026 season.
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Keith LeGoy, Chairman, Sony Pictures Television, said that the streaming rights are “completely separate” to its syndicated deals.
“This is completely separate from those. We have a long historic thing with CBS. They are the distributor for syndicated broadcast television,” he at the Banff TV Festival. “There is a pending litigation, which I really can’t talk too much about, because it’s pending litigation. The documents are out there in the public domain, if people really care to read them, but that is pursuing its course and will get resolved in due course. We feel pretty good about our arguments and that we will prevail.”
This announcement comes days after three Appeal Court judges from the Second Appellate District ruled that CBS will remain the sole distributor of the rights to these shows.
LeGoy added that the streaming rights were not covered by any previous arrangement, and when negotiating the last syndication deal with ABC stations, the deal specifically carved out the ability to do next day streaming.
“We told, or asked, CBS to mirror that in all of the other syndication deals that they did, so that we could do this without surprising or upsetting any of the syndication partners, who are incredibly important to us” he said. “What we wanted to do with streaming was to really give ourselves the chance to find a new and different audience. We believe that the syndication audience and the streaming audience don’t cross over that much. This is going to be amplifying these shows and broadening their appeal, rather than cannibalizing any existing partnerships,”
Jeopardy!, which is hosted by Ken Jennings, is entering Season 42, while Wheel of Fortune, which is hosted by Ryan Seacrest and Vanna White, is entering Season 43.
Sony Pictures Boss Reveals Iconic TV Shows’ Streaming Deals Are “Completely Separate” To Syndicated Pacts first appeared on Parade on Jun 9, 2025
This story was originally reported by Parade on Jun 9, 2025, where it first appeared.
