{"id":847464,"date":"2024-08-23T10:41:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=847464"},"modified":"2024-08-23T10:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T05:11:13","slug":"reliance-disney-fusion-will-cci-stop-the-competition-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/23\/reliance-disney-fusion-will-cci-stop-the-competition-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Reliance-Disney Fusion | Will CCI stop the competition illusion?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Reliance Industries Limited and The Walt Disney Company announced a merger of their media and entertainment operations in India. The merged entity, valued at approximately $8.5 billion, would control around 100 television channels and extensive digital streaming (over-the-top) OTT businesses. Under the terms of the agreement, Reliance, through its media subsidiary Viacom, will hold a majority stake in the new entity, while Disney will retain a minority stake of roughly 36%. With this merger, it is poised to create a media behemoth that controls a substantial share of the TV and streaming advertising markets, raising critical questions about the future of competition and consumer protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, Reliance Industries Limited and The Walt Disney Company announced a merger of their media and entertainment operations in India. The merged entity, valued at approximately $8.5 billion, would control around 100 television channels and extensive digital streaming (over-the-top) OTT businesses. Under the terms of the agreement, Reliance, through its media subsidiary Viacom, will hold a majority stake in the new entity, while Disney will retain a minority stake of roughly 36%. With this merger, it is poised to create a media behemoth that controls a substantial share of the TV and streaming advertising markets, raising critical questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,44,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-it-2-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847464","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}