Disney, CLT-Ufa in legal wrangle. (Walt Disney Co. sued for breach of contract over free TV rights)

Multichannel News | November 24, 1997| | Copyright

FRANKFURT, GERMANY - The Wait Disney Co. has canceled the free TV-output deal that it signed in 1995 with Luxembourg-based CLT, through which it was providing programming to all RTL stations belonging to the European TV group.

Disney is seeking an additional nine-digit fee in deutsche marks - meaning that the fee will be at least DM100 million ($70 million), or much higher - in compensation for the merger between CLT and Bertelsmann AG's TV unit, Ufa, this past January.

CLT-Ufa confirmed last week that it has begun legal action to maintain the supply of films ...

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