{"id":850904,"date":"2024-09-02T10:01:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T04:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=850904"},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:34:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T05:04:04","slug":"anti-monopoly-action-reliance-disney-get-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/09\/02\/anti-monopoly-action-reliance-disney-get-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-monopoly action: Reliance-Disney get away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After some initial hiccups, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has given interim approval to the merger of two entertainment and media behemoths \u2013 Disney India and the Reliance-controlled Viacom18. The merged entity will be a $8.5 billion powerhouse, dwarfing all others. With about 120 broadcasting channels, a reach of 750 million people worldwide, cornering a combined revenue of 43% of the advertising market, and with two of the largest streaming platforms \u2013 Jio Cinema and Disney + Hotstar \u2013 what we are seeing is an outsized media monopoly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After some initial hiccups, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has given interim approval to the merger of two entertainment and media behemoths \u2013 Disney India and the Reliance-controlled Viacom18. The merged entity will be a $8.5 billion powerhouse, dwarfing all others. With about 120 broadcasting channels, a reach of 750 million people worldwide, cornering a combined revenue of 43% of the advertising market, and with two of the largest streaming platforms \u2013 Jio Cinema and Disney + Hotstar \u2013 what we are seeing is an outsized media monopoly.<\/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":[74,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850904","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=850904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}