Breaking Reliance and Disney Announce Strategic Joint Venture

[dino29]

No, Reliance acquired Network18 (including Viacom18) only in 2014. Until that time, it was a part of the TV18 group founded by Raghav Bahl. You should know the pre-Reliance history of Network18/Viacom18 as explained in this excellent book.
Network18: The Audacious Story of a Start-up That Became a Media Empire - Amazon.in

Dada, @Divyam bro i guess would be referring to post 2014 scenario once Reliance acquired TV Channels /Broadcast Business of Mr. Raghav Bahl

 

[00anonymous00]

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 cricket broadcast rights, four sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

It is the biggest setback so far to the planned Disney-Reliance merger which aims to create India's biggest entertainment player which will compete with Sony, Zee Entertainment, Netflix and Amazon with a combined 120 TV channels and two streaming services.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/india-antitrust-body-warns-disney-reliance-media-merger-will-hurt-rivals-sources-2024-08-20/

 

[piinku1]

I think disney star should sell the Australia rights to Sony, there would be no problem in merger,

 

[vasanth]

I think disney star should sell the Australia rights to Sony, there would be no problem in merger,

How is possible? Disney is ready to give the rights to Sony to spend millions of dollars to take the rights?

 

[Divyam]

Jio Studios - smaller budget movies....Viacom18 Studios - higher budget movies.....Also u will see Jio Studios mostly focusing on more offbeat movies including some big bugdet ones like Dunki.....much like erstwhile UTV Motion Pictures and UTV Spotbo

But Viacom18 Studios has produced many small films even after the launch of jio studios lsc was their first big film since padmaavat and even jio has produced many big films like Vikram vedha

 

[Aksgr]

But Viacom18 Studios has produced many small films even after the launch of jio studios lsc was their first big film since padmaavat and even jio has produced many big films like Vikram vedha

jio studios is a company of jio platforms , whereas viacom18 is network18 company. although they have same parent company. both are different .

 

[praks001]

They should offload ICC rights, which they overpaid anyway. This will not only help them financially but also get them the clearance.

 

[piinku1]

They should offload ICC rights, which they overpaid anyway. This will not only help them financially but also get them the clearance.

No one will buy the icc rights, they may try with Australian rights

 

[praks001]

ICC Elections: Turmoil over media rights continues ahead of Jay Shah's ascension as ICC Chief - Inside Sport India

ICC Elections: Ahead of Jay Shah becoming new ICC Chairman, huge trouble brews as Star wants to renegotiate Broadcast deal

www.insidesport.in

Star are already in the process of renegotiating the deal with ICC.

 

[Detective Conan]

I hope they rename Jio cinemas as Jio Hotstar or Jio Star after merger.

The kids programs of Disney channels shouldn't be managed by viacom18 kids channels, Disney India should retain control over the content strategy of animated shows, kids anime series, and movies shown on Disney India's kids channels.