Star India - Viacom18 Merger Completed

[RdX]

Yes , disney india itself is a different company than disney star.
Disney india operates hungama , and all utv and disney channels in india .
It also had a subsidiary called disney star .

But now it’s different the deal is not just with disney star but entire disney india , thats why they choose to sell hungama.
Its not yet known how disney will distribute its movies.

In a short form disney india now exists as a minority shareholder in jiostar. ( not to get confused with disney international operations employee in india who work for disney and not disney india)

Actually they called Disney Star trademark of SIPL and Disney Brodcasting/UTv combined business in India. But still SIPL entity working separately from Disney's DBIPL/UTv for some reasons.

Between SIPL already merger entity with Star Sports india pvt, Asianet communications, Vijay Television private limited, Maa television network. even before Disney or Reliance partnership.

 

[Raju lal]

Who is the head of disney india now

Yet to reveal. Bikram Duggal, Former Studio Head of Disney Star stay with Disney India. Likewise one executive of former Disney Star may chosen. Most probably its Bikram Duggal itself. Don't know what's Madhavan's plan. He could have stay with Disney India. Some sources points that Madhavan will join Zee.

 

[shawl_who]

Welcome back Boss You said right

hehe.. thx Sarfaraz bro

 

[Malay_]

 

[dino29]

Provide evidence for everything you've said till now. I have been observing for the past few days that you're constantly making arguments instead of a healthy discussion on the topic. And this is raising doubts over the credibility of your statements. So it will be good for you that you either provide sufficient evidence in support of your ’arguments’. Or stop arguing unnecessarily altogether. Period.

Already each of the things i mentioned is proven but unfortunately some members r mixing up different things and coming to wrong conclusion. Please go thru my previous posts and read carefully what i have stated and that shall help u understand how exactly things have shaped up in the merged entity.....when some members r confusing basic fact that Disney-Star and Viacom18 website redirecting to JioStar as disbanding of Disney-Star and Viacom18 while it is just that since both companies have merged operations so JioStar is been chosen as corporate website despite me explaining that numerous times then what can be said,...... also Star India Private Limited is subsidiary company under which media operations / transactions will be carried out and members r wrongly claiming that Disney-Star has been renamed Star India while fact is Star India Private Limited even existed earlier but only Star Network Channels were run under this subsidiary while Disney Kids, Nat Geo channels were operated under different subsidiary company and hence now as part of merger Viacom18 , Jio Cinema , Hotstar assets have also been transferred to Star India Private Limited as all these TV Channels, OTT platforms will be managed under Star India Private Limited company identity and it no way means that Viacom18 , Disney Star company ceases to exist as these still exist but their channels /assets will be run jointly and in the JV Disney holds 37% share while Reliance owns 56%


So request u to please put in some time to try and understand this information rather than telling me that i am augmenting or making baseless claims which is totally false.... Also i am not raising any doubts over anyone's credibility but correcting the wrong information being shared by some members and no member engages in more healthy and productive discussion than me despite many members just poking fun or name calling against me when they lack subject matter to reply to my posts

 

[Aksgr]

There is no disney star and thats facts.
I have created below picture to explain the structure.

Viacom18 does exist but will eventually die out once the share swap structure is well defined.
Before

Now

 

[Malay_]

Already each of the things i mentioned is proven but unfortunately some members r mixing up different things and coming to wrong conclusion. Please go thru my previous posts and read carefully what i have stated and that shall help u understand how exactly things have shaped up in the merged entity.....when some members r confusing basic fact that Disney-Star and Viacom18 website redirecting to JioStar as disbanding of Disney-Star and Viacom18 while it is just that since both companies have merged operations so JioStar is been chosen as corporate website despite me explaining that numerous times then what can be said,...... also Star India Private Limited is subsidiary company under which media operations / transactions will be carried out and members r wrongly claiming that Disney-Star has been renamed Star India while fact is Star India Private Limited even existed earlier but only Star Network Channels were run under this subsidiary while Disney Kids, Nat Geo channels were operated under different subsidiary company and hence now as part of merger Viacom18 , Jio Cinema , Hotstar assets have also been transferred to Star India Private Limited as all these TV Channels, OTT platforms will be managed under Star India Private Limited company identity and it no way means that Viacom18 , Disney Star company ceases to exist as these still exist but their channels /assets will be run jointly and in the JV Disney holds 37% share while Reliance owns 56%


So request u to please put in some time to try and understand this information rather than telling me that i am augmenting or making baseless claims which is totally false.... Also i am not raising any doubts over anyone's credibility but correcting the wrong information being shared by some members and no member engages in more healthy and productive discussion than me despite many members just poking fun or name calling against me when they lack subject matter to reply to my posts

Incorrect information.. you have mentioned.. in the JV Disney holds 37% share while Reliance owns 56%.

Correct Information is..

Reliance holds a 63.16% stake, of which 16.34% is with RIL and 46.82% with Viacom18. The remaining 36.84% stake is with Walt Disney.

Source : https://www.hindustantimes.com/busi...0000-crore-joint-venture-101731592700198.html

 

[Rajpatil98]

I just dont understand why you guys are stretching this matter unnecessarily. If he isnt going to agree, no matter what you say, he never will. So, leave it at that, there is no need to prove anything to anyone. Just move on. I have already seen members explain the same thing multiple times. Initially i also explained it once but if the other party is adamant about not agreeing, its better to stop the conversation and move on to another topic, which is exactly what i did.


My views align with what most members are saying but i would suggest both parties end the conversation even if you dont agree with each other. There is no need to write long, detailed explanations repeating the same points over and over again.

 

[daydreamer18]

I just dont understand why you guys are stretching this matter unnecessarily. If he isnt going to agree, no matter what you say, he never will. So, leave it at that, there is no need to prove anything to anyone. Just move on. I have already seen members explain the same thing multiple times. Initially i also explained it once but if the other party is adamant about not agreeing, its better to stop the conversation and move on to another topic, which is exactly what i did.


My views align with what most members are saying but i would suggest both parties end the conversation even if you dont agree with each other. There is no need to write long, detailed explanations repeating the same points over and over again.

I have watched so many threads most of the threads this guy @dino29 doesn't accept anything always in another universe nd he himself thinks he knows everything and that was very correct

 

[RdX]

Incorrect information.. you have mentioned.. in the JV Disney holds 37% share while Reliance owns 56%.

Correct Information is..

Reliance holds a 63.16% stake, of which 16.34% is with RIL and 46.82% with Viacom18. The remaining 36.84% stake is with Walt Disney.

Source : https://www.hindustantimes.com/busi...0000-crore-joint-venture-101731592700198.html

Reliance also indirect stakeholder and bodhi tree minor investor in Viacom18 Media Pvt ltd. again they own stakes separately in merger entity SIPL, which they call Jio Star as New merger entity Name, to promote Jio and Star.