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Sony Pictures Entertainment is soliciting bids for the streaming rights to the two popular game shows.

“Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy!” are two of the biggest holdouts of the streaming revolution, available only on traditional broadcast television.

Not for much longer.

Sony Pictures Entertainment, the owner of the popular game shows, said on Thursday that it was soliciting bids from major media and tech companies for the streaming rights to new episodes of the two series for the first time.

“Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune” still command big audiences — roughly seven million viewers a night for each, according to Nielsen. That audience, however, is getting older and declining, just like the audiences for rest of traditional television.

Other mainstays of broadcast television have recently made their way to streaming as well. “WWE Raw,” which used to run on cable television, began streaming on Netflix every week in January. The National Football League streams Thursday

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