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MUMBAI: Reliance and Viacom18 Tuesday announced a strategic partnership with Bodhi Tree Systems, which is a platform of James Murdoch's Lupa Systems and Uday Shankar, to form one of the largest TV and digital streaming companies in India.

Bodhi Tree Systems is leading a fund raise with a consortium of investors to invest Rs 13,500 crore in Viacom18, to jointly build India's leading entertainment platform and pioneer the Indian media landscape's transformation to a "streaming-first" approach. Viacom18 owns and operates the suite of Colors TV channels and OTT platform, VOOT.

Feb 17, 2022 14:02
NEW YORK: ViacomCBS Tuesday announced that the global media company will become Paramount Global, effective February 16, bringing together its portfolio of entertainment properties under a new parent company name.
Feb 10, 2022 17:02
MUMBAI: Lupa Systems founder and CEO James Murdoch and Uday Shankar, former chairman and CEO of Star India and former president of Walt Disney Asia Pacific, announced Thursday they are forming a new venture, “Bodhi Tree”, an investment platform that will be financially supported by the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), Qatar's sovereign wealth fund. 
May 13, 2021 20:05
MUMBAI: Just under four months after Lupa Systems CEO James Murdoch announced the formation of a new venture with former top Disney executive Uday Shankar that would "explore technology and media opportunities in emerging markets", said entity has a name - Seven Islands Inc. 
Jan 14, 2021 10:01
MUMBAI: Lupa Systems CEO James Murdoch and Uday Shankar, the former chairman and CEO of Star India and president of Walt Disney Asia Pacific, announced Thursday that they are forming a new venture to explore technology and media opportunities in emerging markets.
Dec 24, 2020 14:12
MUCH HAS BEEN ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT Indian media's biggest executive departure of 2020. The resignation of Uday Shankar as president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star & Disney India, announced October 8, also marks the end of arguably THE defining decade in the evolution of professional Indian sport in the 21st century. 
Dec 04, 2020 14:12
NEW DELHI: Uday Shankar, who recently stepped down as president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star & Disney India, effective as of December 31, has been named president-elect, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), for the year 2020-21. 
Oct 13, 2020 17:10
NEWS ANALYSIS: THE REASON FOR  UDAY Shankar's decision to step down as president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star & Disney India, announced last Thursday, is clear now. Not quite so clear is why Star Sports CEO Gautam Thakar AND three other top executives acted in consort to take the exit route from India's leading sports network. 
Oct 08, 2020 14:10
MUMBAI: Uday Shankar will step down as president, The Walt Disney Company APAC and chairman, Star & Disney India, effective as of December 31, Rebecca Campbell, chairman of Disney’s Direct-to-Consumer & International segment, announced Thursday. Over the next three months, Shankar will work closely with Ms Campbell to identify his successor to ensure a smooth transition.
Jul 06, 2020 19:07
MUMBAI: Uday Shankar, president of Walt Disney Company, APAC, and chairman, Star & Disney India, has said "the market is not ready to support and sustain the IPL 2020 with the same fervour and gusto in the current economic environment," according to a report in ET Now.
Jul 01, 2020 18:07
MUMBAI: Uday Shankar, president, The Walt Disney Company (Asia Pacific) and chairman, Star & Disney India, on Tuesday said that COVID pandemic and the China-India face-off have led to a “perfect storm". And that his network would have to "figure out a different monetisation model" for the Indian Premier League (IPL) IF the growing demand for a boycott of Chinese companies was acted upon by the government.