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Final Jeopardy!

The fight over the streaming future of Sony’s long-running quiz show and Wheel of Fortune represents a full-scale, high-stakes, and final deconstruction of a half-century of TV dealmaking, and an industry model that has been in decline for years.

Pat Sajak Alex Trebek
The streaming land grab just claimed two of the last great holdouts: Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Photo: Amanda Edwards/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
March 4, 2025

The streaming land grab just claimed two of the last great holdouts: Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune. Sony Pictures Television is officially shopping the digital rights to both game-show juggernauts, a seismic shift for a pair of broadcast syndication staples that, until now, had been precious relics of the linear era. “The world is changing around us,” Sony’s television chairman, Keith Le Goy, told The New York Times.