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Disney and Reliance were given the green light to create India’s biggest entertainment company after Indian regulators approved their $8.5 billion merger on Wednesday.
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Walt Disney Co and Reliance Industries won approval on Wednesday for an $8.5 billion merger of their Indian media assets after assuaging regulatory worries about their grip on ...
India’s antitrust watchdog has expressed initial concerns about the proposed $8.5 billion merger between Reliance and Walt Disney’s media assets in the country, sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The ...
The merger of Indian media assets of Reliance, its portfolio Viacom18 and Disney will create an entity that captures 85% of the country's on-demand streaming service audience and about half of the ...
India’s top conglomerate Reliance Industries and Walt Disney DIS-N on Wednesday announced the merger of their India TV and streaming media assets, creating a US$8.5-billion entertainment ...
NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India's antitrust body has reached an initial assessment that the $8.5 billion India merger of Reliance and Walt Disney media assets harms competition due to their power over ...
That’s because, with the January collapse of the $10 billion Sony-ZEE merger plans and late February’s confirmation that Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (which incorporates Viacom18 and streamer ...
JioStar, the six-month-old product of a merger of a unit from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance media empire with Disney in India that is also backed by James Murdoch, now owns the digital and television ...
The transaction values the Joint Venture (JV) at Rs 70,352 crore and is owned 16.34 per cent by Reliance Industries, 46.82 per cent by Viacom18 and 36.84 per cent by Disney ...
The erosion in value of Disney’s unit is due in part to the loss incurred from its sale of cricket television rights to Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd., which is now expected to be unable to pay up ...
Reliance is nearing a deal to acquire Disney's India business, according to a report, as Mukesh Ambani's oil-to-telecom empire eyes broadening digital and television assets. Disney values its India ...