Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries and Walt Disney on Wednesday introduced the merger of their India TV and streaming media belongings, making a $8.5 billion powerhouse on this planet’s most populous nation. The merged entity can have 120 TV channels and two streaming platforms, making its enterprise a lot bigger than rivals akin to Japan’s Sony, Netflix and India’s Zee Entertainment within the nation’s $28 billion media and leisure sector.

Together, Reliance and Disney can have over 750 million viewers throughout India and also will cater to the Indian diaspora internationally. Below is a breakdown of their belongings:

TELEVISION * Viacom18, majority owned by Reliance, has 40 tv channels, together with Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and MTV.

* Disney Star, a family title in India, has about 80 channels and the model is understood for Hindi household dramas in addition to Hollywood films. * Both corporations’ channels span common leisure, sports activities, youngsters’s TV, documentaries and life-style programmes. They additionally cowl a number of regional language programming.

* Viacom18 has the TV rights for home and worldwide cricket matches run by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. Disney has TV rights for the favored Indian Premier League (IPL) till 2027. STREAMING

* Reliance’s JioCinema and Disney’s Hotstar would have a mixed library of 200,000 plus hours of content material that features tv dramas, films and sport occasions. * Disney’s Hotstar was the second-most downloaded video streaming app in India in 2022 after MX Player, in line with a report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and EY.

* Disney’s streaming content material consists of world blockbusters, films from the Marvel universe in addition to National Geographic documentaries. It streamed seven out of the highest 15 most-watched authentic exhibits in India in 2022, in line with a report by media consulting agency Ormax. * Disney has the digital rights for International Cricket Council’s matches in India till 2027, whereas Ambani’s JioCinema now has the streaming rights for IPL till 2027 after outbidding Disney.

* JioCinema final 12 months struck offers with The Pokemon Company to stream content material and signed a take care of Warner Bros to carry extra Hollywood and worldwide content material on its platform.

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