{"id":983598,"date":"2026-01-06T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983598"},"modified":"2026-01-06T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:53:12","slug":"universal-music-india-acquires-30-stake-in-excel-entertainment-at-%e2%82%b92400-cr-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/universal-music-india-acquires-30-stake-in-excel-entertainment-at-%e2%82%b92400-cr-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Music India acquires 30% stake in Excel Entertainment at \u20b92,400-cr valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Music India (UMI), part of Universal Music Group (UMG), has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 30% stake in Excel Entertainment, valuing the Indian film and digital content studio at `2,400 crore. <\/p>\n<p>The deal will mark one of the most significant cross-industry partnerships between a global music major and an Indian film production house, underscoring the growing convergence between the music and visual content sectors. The agreement will also see UMI and Excel collaborate to accelerate the studio\u2019s growth and strengthen UMG\u2019s footprint in India, currently the world\u2019s 15th-largest recorded music market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universal Music India (UMI), part of Universal Music Group (UMG), has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a 30% stake in Excel Entertainment, valuing the Indian film and digital content studio at `2,400 crore. The deal will mark one of the most significant cross-industry partnerships between a global music major and an Indian film production house, underscoring the growing convergence between the music and visual content sectors. The agreement will also see UMI and Excel collaborate to accelerate the studio\u2019s growth and strengthen UMG\u2019s footprint in India, currently the world\u2019s 15th-largest recorded music market.<\/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":[62,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983598","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=983598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}