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Ahsoka has taken the viewers on a galactic tour and the popularity of the live-action series is soaring. Now, Disney and Luctoin released the live-action series to selected theaters on the occasion of the Ahsoka Midseason Fan Celebration. Dave Filoni joins hands with George Lucas to narrate the story of Ahsoka Tano. It is vividly brought to life by Rosario Dawson. Ahsoka takes on a galactic journey in search of Grand Admiral Thrawn and the enigmatic Ezra Bridger.

OTT platform will broadcast the matches in 11 different languages and has enlisted cricket stalwarts like Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Aakash Chopra, Amit Mishra, Hanuma Vihari, Kiran More, Anirudha Srikanth, Sarandeep Singh, and others to form an expert panel. Viacom18, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has secured exclusive media rights for international and domestic matches organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

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JioCinema will open its innings to broadcast Indian cricket team's home matches riding on its free playbook, as the media unit today said it will stream India's 3-match ODI home series against Australia for free. This is the first international series in the rights cycle that will be presented on JioCinema. The OTT will stream the matches in 11 languages and has also roped in Suresh Raina, Kedar Jadhav, Aakash Chopra, Amit Mishra, Hanuma Vihari, Kiran More, Anirudha Srikanth, Sarandeep Singh, among others, to be part of the expert panel. Viacom18, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has secured exclusive media rights for international and domestic matches by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) for a cumulative figure of Rs 5,963 crore for the next five years between September 2023-March 2028.

ITV has secured the rights to broadcast the Oscars ceremony in the UK, thanks to a newly inked multi-year deal with Disney Entertainment. The Oscars will now find their home on ITV1 and the streaming platform ITVX.

Disney Star has collaborated with digital storytelling platform Pratilipi for a first-of-its-kind multi-series content deal that will allow the former to develop multiple new fiction television shows adapted from stories available on the latter's platform. The content produced as part of the association would be broadcast across languages on Disney Star’s TV and digital platforms. This will be the first time a TV series will be adapted and developed on an online self-publishing and audiobook platform. Stories on Pratilipi have an extensive readership and listener base that extends up to 15 million subscribers.

Archer season 14 season was released on FXX even though there was a blackout of all Disney cable networks and ABC owned-and-operated stations on the Charter's Spectrum cable system on August 31 night. Ten days after this disruption, and following the release of one new episode of Archer, the contentious carriage dispute came to an end.

Media and entertainment company Disney Star has partnered with Pratilipi, an online self-publishing and audiobook portal for a multi-series content deal. This association allows Disney Star to develop multiple new fiction television shows adapted from stories available on Pratilipi, intended to be broadcast across languages on Disney Star’s TV and digital platforms, the two companies said in a statement.

Investing.com -- U.S. stock futures decline after a spike in Tesla's (NASDAQ:TSLA) shares bolsters equities on Monday, as traders look ahead to the release of major economic data later in the week. Elsewhere, British chip designer Arm will reportedly stop taking orders for its much-anticipated initial public offering a day early due to solid investor demand, while Disney and Charter Communications reach a distribution deal to end a TV blackout that threatened to leave millions of households unable to tune in to the first «Monday Night Football» game of the season.

Disney and Charter Communications announced a deal to settle a dispute that had cut some 15 million cable TV customers off from ESPN and other Disney-owned stations

A rally for Big Tech stocks helped Wall Street claw back about half its loss from last week

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Hotstar has scored record runs with viewership. Disney+ Hotstar today set a new record during the India and Pakistan's super 4 round match in Asia Cup with a peak concurrency of 2.8 crore viewers, according to industry sources. To achieve this feat, Disney + Hotstar beat its own 2019 World Cup record during the India vs New Zealand semi-final match, when MS Dhoni was tad short of getting into the crease to save his wicket and India's chances of moving into the finals. Disney Star, which operates Star Sports channels and Disney+ Hotstar OTT, is broadcasting the Asia Cup on TV and digital platforms. It also owns media rights for both platforms for the upcoming 50-overs ICC World Cup 2023 tournament. Arch cricket rivals India and Pakistan faced each other on September 3 in a group match in Asia Cup, but the match had to be suspended due to rains.

(Reuters) -Dish Network said on Friday U.S.-based Hearst Television removed customer access to 37 local channels in 27 markets after the companies failed to agree on distribution rates despite months of talks.

The endgame for cable TV has arrived. The decadeslong alliance between programmers and distributors that has been the foundation of the roughly $200 billion TV industry is starting to crumble as each side looks to protect its interests in a media landscape centered on streaming. Those tensions have burst into the open with a fight between Disney and the nation’s No.

Right after losing IPL rights to JioCinema parent ... moreRight after losing IPL rights to JioCinema parent Viacom18, Disney cut the subscriber target for Disney+Hotstar to 80 Mn by the end of FY24 from 100 Mn earlier.

Reliance Industries: Viacom18, controlled by Reliance Industries Ltd, has picked up exclusive media rights for televising and live-streaming Indian Super League (ISL) football matches for the next two seasons. The 10th season of the ISL is set to start on 21 September with a match between Kerala Blasters FC and Bengaluru FC in Kochi. For the first time, India’s premier football league will be aired by Viacom18, replacing Disney Star, which had been the official broadcaster for the last nine seasons.

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premier football league, for both digital and traditional TV platforms for the upcoming two seasons. The 10th season of the ISL is set to begin on 21 September, featuring a match between Kerala Blasters FC and Bengaluru FC in Kochi, marking the league's transition from its previous broadcaster, Disney Star. Mint had reported on 21 July that Disney Star opted out of renewing its media rights due to sustained losses and falling viewership.

A business dispute that has pulled ESPN and other Disney-owned companies off the air for nearly 15 million cable TV subscribers continues, with both companies taking the unusual step of directing customers to look elsewhere for their favorite networks

Comcast and Disney have agreed to move up the date on which they begin negotiating the fate of their jointly-owned streaming service, Hulu, the cable company’s CEO said Wednesday. The companies plan to begin work negotiating a potential sale of Comcast’s minority stake in Hulu on Sept. 30, months earlier than their initial January start date.