Gearoid Reidy, Columnist

Sony Switches Off the TV and That’s Just Fine

January 29, 2026 at 7:00 PM UTC

Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief.

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TV buffs were stunned by the announcement last week that Sony Group Corp. was handing control of its TV operations to TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd., the Chinese firm that is the world’s second-largest maker of sets.