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Sony appoints Walt Disney executive Gaurav Banerjee as new India CEO

Banerjee has resigned from Disney's India unit where he was the head of content for its streaming service

NCLT approves merger process for Reliance's arm Viacom18 and Star India

The merger will be done in two stages: the transfer of Viacom18's TV and streaming assets to Digital18 and the demerger and vesting of these assets from Digital18 to Star India

IPL 2024: Star Sports registers a record 510 million viewers in 51 matches

Tata IPL 2024: Star Sports experienced an 18% increase from the previous edition in terms of total watch time, with viewers spending 356,000 million minutes

'Mufasa: The Lion King': Disney's Live-Action Prequel Movie Gets First Look

Disney amazed fans on Monday, April 29, with the arrival of the much-awaited mystery trailer for 'Mufasa: The Lion King,' the prequel to the 2019 remake of the classic animated movie

IPL viewership on Disney Star after 34 matches up 18% at 475 million: Barc

MI vs CSK witnessed 63 million concurrent viewers tuning in during Dhoni's batting, making it the highest for this season

Disney to start cracking down on password-sharing from June: CEO Bob Iger

Streaming rival Netflix's password-sharing crackdown had helped it add nearly 22 million subscribers in the second half of 2023 and shatter Wall Street expectations

Disney shareholders back CEO Robert Iger, rebuff activist shareholders

Disney shareholders rallied behind longtime CEO Robert Iger, voting Wednesday to rebuff activist investor Nelson Peltz and his ally, former Disney chief financial officer Jay Rasulo, who had sought seats on the company's board. The company had recommended a slate of directors that did not include Peltz or Rasulo. The dissident shareholders had said in a preliminary proxy filing that they wanted to complete a successful CEO succession at Disney and align management pay with performance. Disney announced in November 2022 that Bob Iger would come back to the company as its CEO to replace his hand-picked successor, Bob Chapek, whose two-year tenure had been marked by clashes, missteps and weakening financial performance. Iger was Disney's public face for 15 years as chief executive before handing the job off to Chapek in 2020, a stretch in which Iger compiled a string of victories lauded in the entertainment industry and by Disney fans. But his second run at the job has not won him ...

Blackwells Capital sues Disney over ties to ValueAct in proxy fight

Disney offered to meet with Blackwells and provide documentation confirming that ValueAct had stopped managing Disney pension funds but Blackwells declined the offer

Star India starts arbitration against Zee over cricket broadcasting deal

Star India has sought "specific performance" of the agreement or the payment of damages, Zee said in a statement, without providing details

In search for its next CEO, Disney board focuses on four divisional heads

Iger is spending time with all of the internal candidates to help them understand how he approaches the job and give them exposure to business units they're not familiar with

Reliance-Disney merger likely to capture 50% of India's streaming market

Last month, Reliance agreed to acquire Disney's India business, creating an $8.5 billion media giant ranging from film and television production to news and sports content.

Can Disney-Reliance combine redefine the Indian advertising market?

The Disney-Reliance combine will have enormous reach, market muscle, and a unique combination of broadcast and digital

Robust revenue growth estimated for Reliance Industries-Disney combine

Media Partners Asia report says profits from television broadcast will help offset the losses in sports and digital

Viacom-Star merger will reduce bargaining power: Advertising industry

The merger of the Indian media business of Walt Disney with Reliance Industries' Viacom18 will create a "significant dominant player", which might reduce the bargaining power for media buying agencies, the country's advertising industry has said. The Rs 70,000-crore behemoth, created post-merger may enable it to exert greater control over pricing and inventory of media rights and also influence over content, advertising industry leaders said. According to the experts, the merged entity will almost have a monopoly in sports properties as it will collectively control 75-80 per cent of the Indian sports market, in both linear TV and digital platforms and may uptick the rates. The joint venture, which is expected to receive approvals by the first quarter of 2025, will have over 70 channels from Star India and 38 TV channels from Viacom18 in eight languages, along with two large OTT platforms -- Jio Cinema and Hotstar -- and two film studios owned by each of them. "The Star-Viacom merge

Tech, cricket big wins for billionaire Ambani in Disney-Reliance tie-up

Reliance's JioCinema is largely free and doesn't disclose user numbers, having started a premium paid offering just last year

RIL-Disney 'game-changing' deal gets a thumbs-up from analysts

The development will be negative for other players such as Zee, analysts said, who will now have to compete with a much larger entity

Reliance gains 2% on forming $8.5 bn JV with Disney merging India media ops

As part of the transaction, the media undertaking of Viacom18, a RIL group company, will be merged into Star India Private, a Disney-owned firm

Reliance, Disney form joint venture to merge TV, OTT business in India

RIL to invest $1.4 bn in JV; Nita Ambani named chairperson, Uday Shankar vice-chairperson

How will Reliance-Disney JV shape up, what will happen with media industry

"The whole narrative will change from TV is dying to TV-plus-digital is the future," says an industry observer

Uday Shankar to be VC of merged Reliance-Disney media business: Report

Reliance and Disney are expected to make a formal announcement on Wednesday after signing a binding pact. Shankar is set to take a stake of around 9% in the new merged entity