{"id":849645,"date":"2024-08-29T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=849645"},"modified":"2024-08-29T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:02:11","slug":"competition-watchdog-cci-approves-disney-ril-owned-viacom18s-8-5-bn-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/29\/competition-watchdog-cci-approves-disney-ril-owned-viacom18s-8-5-bn-merger\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition watchdog CCI approves Disney, RIL-owned Viacom18\u2019s $8.5-bn merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI\/NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Wednesday approved the proposed merger between Disney Star, the local unit of The Walt Disney Company, and Reliance Industries-controlled Viacom18, with some voluntary modifications.<\/p>\n<p>This approval, the most crucial for a merger of this size, will pave the way for the largest deal in India&#8217;s media and entertainment sector, creating an $8.5-billion entertainment network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MUMBAI\/NEW DELHI: The Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Wednesday approved the proposed merger between Disney Star, the local unit of The Walt Disney Company, and Reliance Industries-controlled Viacom18, with some voluntary modifications. This approval, the most crucial for a merger of this size, will pave the way for the largest deal in India&#8217;s media and entertainment sector, creating an $8.5-billion entertainment network.<\/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":[54,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849645","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=849645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}