{"id":1000534,"date":"2026-04-01T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000534"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:37:11","slug":"sony-sells-its-tv-business-to-tcl-heres-what-it-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/sony-sells-its-tv-business-to-tcl-heres-what-it-means\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony sells its TV business to TCL: Here&#8217;s what it means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s TV business now has a new majority owner. The Japanese electronics giant and Chinese display maker TCL have signed legally binding agreements to form a joint venture called Bravia Inc., with TCL holding a 51% stake and Sony retaining 49%.<\/p>\n<p>TCL will pay approximately 75.4 billion yen\u2014roughly $473 million\u2014for its majority share. The new company will be headquartered inside Sony&#8217;s Osaki office in Tokyo and is expected to begin operations in April 2027, pending regulatory approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s TV business now has a new majority owner. The Japanese electronics giant and Chinese display maker TCL have signed legally binding agreements to form a joint venture called Bravia Inc., with TCL holding a 51% stake and Sony retaining 49%. TCL will pay approximately 75.4 billion yen\u2014roughly $473 million\u2014for its majority share. The new company will be headquartered inside Sony&#8217;s Osaki office in Tokyo and is expected to begin operations in April 2027, pending regulatory approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}