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Reliance-Disney: A mega merger aims to reshape India's entertainment landscape

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$ 8.5bn merger aims to create India 's largest entertainment company.

Disney's Star India operates more than 70 TV channels in eight languages, while Reliance 's Viacom18 runs 38 channels.

Both own major streaming platforms - Jio Cinema and Hotstar - and film studios.

Their influence is amplified by owning the broadcasting rights to a significant number of India 's sports events.

The new Reliance-Disney behemoth will hope to dominate news, movies and sports.

Ms Kohli-Khandekar says 80% of digital revenues go to Google and Meta .

But she warns that while the new entity might have scale and heft, it will also need to deliver quality with quantity.

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