{"id":1003273,"date":"2026-04-16T10:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003273"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:29:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T05:59:45","slug":"mega-deals-less-likely-but-media-ma-show-to-stay-strong-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/16\/mega-deals-less-likely-but-media-ma-show-to-stay-strong-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega deals less likely, but media M&amp;A show to stay strong in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Media and entertainment deal activity is set to remain strong in 2026, with transactions increasingly concentrated in content, gaming, sports and AI-first companies with strong intellectual property (IP), say top industry executives. <\/p>\n<p>Most deals are expected to be mid-sized, as companies in emerging segments have yet to achieve meaningful scale. The possibility of a large deal cannot be entirely ruled out, though it remains less likely, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: Media and entertainment deal activity is set to remain strong in 2026, with transactions increasingly concentrated in content, gaming, sports and AI-first companies with strong intellectual property (IP), say top industry executives. Most deals are expected to be mid-sized, as companies in emerging segments have yet to achieve meaningful scale. The possibility of a large deal cannot be entirely ruled out, though it remains less likely, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003273","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}