April 30, 2012
A California federal judge ruled Monday that Dick Clark Productions Inc. has the right to license the Golden Globes to NBCUniversal Media LLC, rejecting the show's organizers' contention that such an arrangement would violate a 20-year-old agreement between them.
February 10, 2012
An attorney for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association delivered impassioned closing arguments Friday in a bench trial over broadcast licensing rights to the Golden Globes, telling a judge that Dick Clark Productions Inc. had no right to unilaterally license the show under a 1993 contract.
February 02, 2012
CBS Corp. President Leslie Moonves was surprised NBCUniversal Inc. secured an agreement to air the Golden Globe Awards after he suggested CBS might pay $25 million for the deal, the executive said in a videotaped deposition played during trial Thursday over licensing rights for the show.
February 01, 2012
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association's longtime president, expecting Dick Clark to wring every last cent from a proposed 1988 Golden Globes broadcast deal, urged its board to get something in writing, a judge heard Wednesday in a trial over licensing rights for the Globes.
January 24, 2012
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions Inc. faced off before a California federal judge on Tuesday, the first day of a bench trial in their year-old contract fight over broadcast licensing rights for the popular awards show.
November 30, 2011
A California federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions to renew mediation efforts in their contract fight over broadcast licensing rights for the awards show, ahead of a Jan. 24 bench trial date.
November 15, 2011
Dick Clark Productions Inc. on Monday asked a California federal judge to delay the Golden Globes producer's broadcast rights trial against the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, saying a January trial would distract from the awards ceremony itself, set to air that month.
August 31, 2011
A California federal judge on Monday gave Dick Clark Productions Inc. a chance to use a statute of limitations argument at its trial next week in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's contract suit over broadcasting rights to the star-studded Golden Globe Award show.
August 09, 2011
A California federal judge on Monday said the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's suit against Dick Clark Productions Inc. over broadcasting rights to the star-studded Golden Globes award show would head to trial at the end of the month.
August 02, 2011
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the producer of the Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday each pressed a California federal judge to grant motions for summary judgment in a breach of contract and trademark infringement suit over the show's future broadcasting rights.