Complete the joint venture combining Viacom18 and Star India businesses with Reliance
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 28 Feb 2024
- Due
- 31 Mar 2025
- Delivered
- 14 Nov 2024
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“expected to be completed in the last quarter of Calendar Year 2024 or first quarter of Calendar Year 2025”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Filings consistently state the Star India joint venture with Reliance was formed on November 14, 2024, before the March 31, 2025 deadline. Excerpts do not mention Viacom18.
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A Walt Disney Co 10-Q filed 2025-05-07
“On November 14, 2024, the Company and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) completed the formation of a joint venture (India joint venture) that combines the Company’s Star-branded and other general entertainment and sports television channels” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Walt Disney Co 10-K filed 2025-11-13
“On November 14, 2024, the Company and Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) formed a joint venture (the India joint venture) that combined the Company’s Star-branded” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved +14.0% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (6 May 2025 to 9 May 2025). What this measures
Checked 10 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Transaction other
- Indicative materiality
- Medium rules
- Action
- Complete
- Deliverable
- Reliance-Viacom18-Star India joint venture
- Where
- India
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Low
- Specificity
- Medium
- Conditional
- Yes: subject to regulatory, shareholder and other customary approvals
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Shareholder
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Claude (Anthropic), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Gemini (Google), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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