A Seoul court on Friday ordered a local cable channel to compensate three major South Korean broadcasters for the unauthorized use of their exit polls during last year's provincial elections.
  

The Seoul Central District Court ordered JTBC to pay 1.2 billion won ($1 million) to three terrestrial networks, KBS, MBC and SBS, which lodged a suit in August 2014.
  

They accused JTBC of citing their exit polls without permission during the June 2014 elections of provincial government heads and council members. The three networks originally sought 2.4 billion won, which was the amount they had spent on the poll, from the cable channel.
  

JTBC said Sohn Suk-hee, who heads JTBC's news reporting division, reported these exit polls after they were broadcast and properly cited the sources. (Yonhap)