Reliance Disney Deal

Antitrust body, the Competition Commission of India, 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, Reuters reported.

India's antitrust body has asked Reliance Industries and Walt Disney around 100 questions linked to their $8.5 billion India media assets merger, including details on sports rights as it heightens its scrutiny of the deal, two sources told Reuters.

Reliance and Disney are said to have asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to approve their $8.5 billion media merger by arguing their combined power will not hit advertisers. The deal will result in the creation of India's biggest entertainment player with 120 TV channels and two streaming services, and is expected to face intense scruti...

Reliance Industries has signed a "binding pact" for a merger deal with Walt Disney's local unit, Bloomberg News reported Monday, a major shakeup for the country's multi-billion dollar entertainment industry.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is close to merging its India media business with Walt Disney with a 51 percent-54 percent stake, a deal that values the US giant's Indian operations at just $3.5 billion, said three sources with direct knowledge.

Reliance Industries, India's most valuable company, and Walt Disney are finalising details of a non-binding term sheet to merge their Indian media operations, the Economic Times reported on Tuesday citing executives involved in the deal.

Reliance Industries, controlled by Asia’s richest tycoon Mukesh Ambani, is nearing a cash and stock deal to buy Walt Disney’s India operations, according to people familiar with the matter. The acquisition could be announced as early as next month with some of Reliance’s media units merged into Disney Star, the people said, without providing ...

Indian streaming platform JioCinema announced premium pricing, its first step to move away from a free content model to fight global rivals such as Netflix and Disney in the country. The move comes weeks after a Reliance's Viacom18 struck a content deal with Warner Bros. The new pricing, according to the website, is only for premium content, while...

All HBO and Warner Bros. content will be available to stream on JioCinema from May onwards. Reliance’s Viacom18 and Warner Bros. Discovery have announced a multi-year deal, making JioCinema the new home for WB’s catalogue of TV series and movies in India. Ongoing shows such as The Last of Us, Succession season 4, and House of the Dragon will be...

JioCinema has partnered with fellow streaming service Sun NXT — owned by Chennai-headquartered Sun TV Network — to bring the latter’s wide collection of Tamil-, Telugu-, Malayalam-, and Kannada-language movies to the former.

While Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are leading the way in original content investment in India, local players such as ALTBalaji, ZEE5, Eros Now and Reliance Jio are exploring other routes — a regional focus or controlling the entire pipeline — in the streaming wars.

Antitrust body, the Competition Commission of India, 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, Reuters reported.

India's antitrust body has asked Reliance Industries and Walt Disney around 100 questions linked to their $8.5 billion India media assets merger, including details on sports rights as it heightens its scrutiny of the deal, two sources told Reuters.

Reliance and Disney are said to have asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to approve their $8.5 billion media merger by arguing their combined power will not hit advertisers. The deal will result in the creation of India's biggest entertainment player with 120 TV channels and two streaming services, and is expected to face intense scruti...

Reliance Industries has signed a "binding pact" for a merger deal with Walt Disney's local unit, Bloomberg News reported Monday, a major shakeup for the country's multi-billion dollar entertainment industry.

Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance is close to merging its India media business with Walt Disney with a 51 percent-54 percent stake, a deal that values the US giant's Indian operations at just $3.5 billion, said three sources with direct knowledge.

Reliance Industries, India's most valuable company, and Walt Disney are finalising details of a non-binding term sheet to merge their Indian media operations, the Economic Times reported on Tuesday citing executives involved in the deal.

Reliance Industries, controlled by Asia’s richest tycoon Mukesh Ambani, is nearing a cash and stock deal to buy Walt Disney’s India operations, according to people familiar with the matter. The acquisition could be announced as early as next month with some of Reliance’s media units merged into Disney Star, the people said, without providing ...

Indian streaming platform JioCinema announced premium pricing, its first step to move away from a free content model to fight global rivals such as Netflix and Disney in the country. The move comes weeks after a Reliance's Viacom18 struck a content deal with Warner Bros. The new pricing, according to the website, is only for premium content, while...

All HBO and Warner Bros. content will be available to stream on JioCinema from May onwards. Reliance’s Viacom18 and Warner Bros. Discovery have announced a multi-year deal, making JioCinema the new home for WB’s catalogue of TV series and movies in India. Ongoing shows such as The Last of Us, Succession season 4, and House of the Dragon will be...

JioCinema has partnered with fellow streaming service Sun NXT — owned by Chennai-headquartered Sun TV Network — to bring the latter’s wide collection of Tamil-, Telugu-, Malayalam-, and Kannada-language movies to the former.

While Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are leading the way in original content investment in India, local players such as ALTBalaji, ZEE5, Eros Now and Reliance Jio are exploring other routes — a regional focus or controlling the entire pipeline — in the streaming wars.