{"id":1011828,"date":"2026-06-03T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1011828"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:40:50","slug":"jiostar-sees-a-dip-in-sports-contract-provisions-in-fy26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/03\/jiostar-sees-a-dip-in-sports-contract-provisions-in-fy26\/","title":{"rendered":"JioStar sees a dip in sports contract provisions in FY26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: JioStar India, the Reliance Industries-Disney joint venture formed after the merger of Disney Star and Viacom18, reduced its onerous sports contract provision to \u20b917,742 crore in FY26 as the company worked through the costly sports rights commitments that weighed on its books. <\/p>\n<p>The company utilised \u20b98,018 crore of the provision in FY26 from \u20b925,760 crore at the end of FY25, with no fresh heavy provision during the year, according to its standalone financial statements for the year ended March 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai: JioStar India, the Reliance Industries-Disney joint venture formed after the merger of Disney Star and Viacom18, reduced its onerous sports contract provision to \u20b917,742 crore in FY26 as the company worked through the costly sports rights commitments that weighed on its books. The company utilised \u20b98,018 crore of the provision in FY26 from \u20b925,760 crore at the end of FY25, with no fresh heavy provision during the year, according to its standalone financial statements for the year ended March 2026.<\/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-1011828","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\/1011828","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=1011828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1011856,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011828\/revisions\/1011856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}