Reliance, Disney merge to form Rs 70,000-cr JV

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries has completed the merger of its media assets with the India business of global media house Walt Disney and formed a joint venture with a valuation......

India's largest media empire is all set to be born!

The Competition Commission of India on Wednesday approved the merger of media assets of Reliance Industries and The Walt Disney Co to create the country's largest media empire worth over Rs 70,000......

CCI flags concerns over Viacom 18-Star India deal

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has flagged possible anti-competitive concerns with respect to the proposed $8.5-billion Viacom18-Star India merger and has sought detailed responses from......

M&As pick up pace in Q1

The merger and acquisition (M&As) transactions have picked up pace in the March quarter of 2024 with  455 deals amounting to $25.6 billion deal value announced. Illustration: Uttam......

If Ambani Buys Disney Star...

Assume Voot, JioCinema and Disney+ Hotstar are merged into one entertainment app, and you have a streaming service with more than 233 million unique visitors.That is a reach just under half of......

Disney Hotstar's Succession Problem

IMAGE: Where can Indian viewers see the final season of the award-winning show Succession? If you were one of those waiting for the entire fourth season of Succession to drop so that you could......

'Sky Is Pink required big stars'

'There is never a safe choice in the movie business.''Everything is chance.' IMAGE: Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar in The Sky Is Pink. Siddharth Roy Kapur understands the business of the movies......

When Shah Rukh Khan was IMPRESSED

Shah Rukh Khan hopes to showcase the good things in life in the second season of the chat show, Ted Talks. "People get inspired by good things or ideas rather than new things. A good thing or......

Cricket Australia, Disney Star ink 7-year deal to beam matches in India

IMAGE: Viewers in India will be able to watch Australia's international matches and its domestic Big Bash League for men and women from the 2023-24 season. Photograph: Kelly Defina/Getty Images......

IPL Media Rights: Disney Star bags TV deal; Viacom18 gets digital

The final valuation of the IPL media rights is likely to be around Rs 47,000 crore to Rs 50,000 crore. IMAGE: The BCCI is richer by Rs 44,075 crore after selling the IPL Indian sub-continent TV......

Amazon, Reliance set to lock horns over IPL media rights

'Cricket is the second-biggest sport in the world with two-and-a-half billion fans and IPL is like its Super Bowl.' IMAGE: IPL's matches reached 350 million viewers during the first half of the......

IPL 2023-27 media rights set to fetch BCCI $6.7 billion

IMAGE: The BCCI will float tenders for IPL's media rights for the 2023-27 cycle as early as the coming week and complete the e-auction in two months. Photograph: BCCI Media rights for the Indian......

BCCI could earn up to $5 billion from IPL broadcasting rights

IMAGE: The IPL broadcast rights (TV and digital) could fetch the BCCI up to US $5 billion for the next five-year cycle (2023-2027). Photograph: BCCI The BCCI is set for a windfall of gigantic......