LOS ANGELES (AP) — The executive who negotiated a deal that brought the Golden Globe Awards to NBC in the mid 1990s testified Tuesday that he didn’t feel it was necessary to tell its organizers they were signing away rights to the show that could keep it on the network indefinitely.
Former dick clark productions President Francis La Maina testified he informed the then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association about a so-called “perpetuity clause” and he felt it was her responsibility to explain that element of the deal to the full membership. The NBC deal was brought to the group in 1993, a decade after it had been bumped from network television because of scandal.
The clause allows the production company, which is no longer owned by entertainment pioneer Dick Clark, to work on the Globes as long as it airs on NBC.
La Maina was the first witness in a trial in federal court that will decide ownership of the broadcast rights to the Globes, a glitzy awards banquet that brings out Hollywood superstars and in some years serves as a predictor of Oscar contenders.
The production company, also known as dcp, used the language of the 1993 deal to support a $150 million contract extension signed in 2010 that keeps the Globes on NBC through 2018. T
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