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The merger will create India's biggest entertainment player, with 120 TV channels and two streaming services, and will compete with Sony, Netflix and Amazon. (Reporting by Kashish Tandon in ...
India’s entertainment landscape shifted Thursday as Reliance Industries and Disney completed their long-awaited media merger, creating an Indian powerhouse valued at $8.5 billion. The deal ...
Reuters reported last month that Disney Hotstar's CEO Sajith Sivanandan resigned from the role as business integration gathered pace for the merger. The entertainment division will be led by Kevin ...
On 4 January 2019, Star TV shut down its television operations in USA for the promotion of its digital counterpart, Hotstar. [35] On 20 March 2019, Star India became a subsidiary of Disney India after the US$71.3 billion deal in the acquisition of former parent company 21st Century Fox was closed. Now, Disney India owns television channels of ...
JioCinema is an Indian subscription video-on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by JioStar, a joint venture between Reliance Industries, Viacom18 and Disney India. the service was launched on 4 May 2016.
Disney acquired Indian streaming service Hotstar and Star TV channels, a household name in India, when it paid $71 billion for some 21st Century Fox global assets in 2019.
The HBO series Last Week Tonight faced several instances of censorship on Hotstar since the purchase of the service by Disney; two episodes were edited to remove jokes referencing Disney characters, including a November 2019 episode on the US census relating to a PSA featuring Mickey Mouse (where Oliver claimed the character was a "crack addict ...
Disney and Reliance Industries have moved closer to a merger of their massive Indian TV and streaming businesses. A combination of the two – which include rival streaming platforms, India’s ...