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Broadcasting sector saw 87% jump in FDI in FY24

India’s broadcasting sector saw a jump in foreign direct investment by 87 percent to Rs 7,012 crore in the fiscal year 2024, as per data released by the department for promotion of industry and internal trade, as per Exchange4media. The sector had received Rs 3,745 crore in FDI in the…

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Reliance Industries To Acquire Paramount Global's Stake In Viacom18

Reliance Industries acquires Paramount's stake in Viacom18, forming a strategic joint venture with Disney's Star India.

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Disney, Reliance Team Up For $8.5B Indian Media Mega-merger

Walt Disney and Reliance are merging their Indian media businesses into a joint venture valued at $8.5 billion.

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Disney Signs Joint Venture Deal With Reliance In India Market

Star India to be combined with Viacom18

Broadcasting & Cable

The need for speed: why China and India are fast-tracking their own Top Gun remakes

State of the art tech, exciting action sequences, swaggering young heroes … it’s no surprise that the world’s new superpowers have fallen for blockbuster air force films. But can they be anything more than military propaganda?

The Guardian - UK

Women's Premier League bids sees India hit cricket's future into the stratosphere

As the battle for emerging athletes grows ever hotter, India's latest push to grow women's cricket appears to be a winner, writes Tracey Holmes.

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Women’s IPL agrees £95m broadcast rights deal before a ball is bowled

Viacom18 has spent £95.4m to secure broadcast rights for the new women’s Indian Premier League for its first five years

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Sports: Mission to take IPL to cricket fans around the world

Director of Reliance Industries Ltd. Nita Ambani said that they have a 'Mission to take IPL to cricket fans in every part of the world. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Windfall

The BCCI should use its earnings to develop infrastructure and promote women’s cricket

The Hindu

Here's Why KeyBanc Considers Disney's IPL Rights Win As Neutral Outcome

KeyBanc analyst Brandon Nispel sees Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) winning TV IPL rights as a neutral outcome for DIS. Nispel would have liked DIS to pursue Digital rights over TV rights, given the ongoing secular challenges of PayTV. However, there appear to be some benefits due to the importance of IPL to the Star ecosystem. …

Benzinga

Staggering $6bn IPL rights auction sees league become one of the most valuable in the world

Record-breaking deal puts the IPL alongside the English Premier League and NFL

The Independent UK

Media giants buy IPL cricket rights for $6.2 billion

Mumbai (AFP) - India's cricket board said Tuesday it has sold the broadcast rights of the IPL tournament for the next five seasons to global media giants for an eye-popping $6.2 billion.

AFP

IPL Media Rights: per match value crosses ₹100 crore mark on Day 1 of rights auction

Viacom18, Disney-Star, Sony, and Zee were involved in an inconclusive seven-hour slugfest of day 1 bidding war over TV Rights and Digital Rights fetching upwards of $5.37 billion and counting

The Hindu

Viacom18 launches Sports18, its dedicated sports channel

Sports18 will be the new home to the world's most premium sports properties, including the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, NBA, LaLiga, Ligue 1, Serie A, Abu Dhabi T10, and top ATP and BWF events

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Disney, Sony, ViacomCBS To Bid For Rights To This Popular Indian Cricket League

The Walt Disney Co (NYSE: DIS), Sony Group Corp’s (NYSE: SONY) Sony Pictures Networks India, and Viacom18 are companies planning to bid for the rights to the Indian Premier League,

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