New Delhi, March 27 -- JioHotstar, the video streaming platform created with the merger of Disney+ Hotstar and JioCinema, has crossed 100 million paid subscribers, the company said on Thursday.

In February last year, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) and The Walt Disney Co. formed a joint venture that they said would combine the businesses of Reliance's associate company, Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd, and Disney's Star India.

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Following the sale of Disney's India assets to RIL, the merger into one streaming platform, JioHotstar, was finally announced last month.

Nita M. Ambani heads the Reliance-Disney joint venture as its chairperson, while broadcast industr...