Bloomberg, in what investment bank Exane/BNPP describes as an “informal survey”, has suggested that Eutelsat and ITV are “most likely takeover” candidates. The bank suggests that ITV has been in the Bloomberg poll fairly frequently over the past ten years. Other companies named as possible takeover targets include KPN, Telecom Italia, Invit, Nokia, ProSiebenSat. 1 […]
ITV has announced that Motorway is the new stand-alone sponsor of the broadcaster’s live Guinness Six Nations coverage across 2022 and 2023. Motorway, the UK’s fastest growing used car marketplace, will sponsor ITV’s live coverage of the tournament, encompassing broadcast sponsorship of coverage across ITV and STV. The two-year sponsorship agreement planned and brokered by […]
Data reveals the 90s British kids’ TV shows that have had the biggest impact, shaped adult lives, and continue to entertain, even three decades later. The research, conducted by GAP, compiled a list of 306 British kids’ TV shows that aired in the 1990s, according to Wikipedia. An analysis combined scores based on the number […]
Analysts at investment bank Exane/BNPP have upgraded the UK’s commercial television broadcaster ITV to ‘Outperform’ (from ‘Neutral’), saying its positive review was helped by increased optimism on the UK’s advertising cycle. In summary, the bank says that it has reassessed ITV’s business catalysts and the broadcaster’s recent track record, new clients coming aboard and the […]
Arjan Pomper has beenappointed as Managing Director, Global Entertainment ITV Studios, with immediate effect. With its catalogue of 285 formats, including some of the largest shows in the world such as The Voice, Love Island, The Chase, I Am A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!, Come Dine With Me and more, Global Entertainment is […]
History Hit, the SVoD and content platform acquired by Little Dot Studios in 2020, has appointed Bill Locke as Head of Original Programming. In this newly created position, Locke will report directly to History Hit co-Founder and Creative Director, Dan Snow, and will be responsible for overseeing development and executive producing the delivery of series […]
Kasper Schmeichel has spoken about the dramatic moment Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch during a Euro 2020 match in a new ITV documentary. The Leicester City goalkeeper features in Kasper Schmeichel – Keeping The Faith, which airs on ITV4 at 10pm on January 11th. The show is part of the Against The Odds series, […]
Both ITV and ITV4 will start airing AEW Rampage starting this week. Rampage debuts on Tuesdays nights at 11:05pm on ITV4, with a replay late Thursday night on ITV. It will be a late night airing with this week being at 11:40pm to 12:40am. Rampage was previously only available on the FITE streaming service as […]
Prime Focus Technologies (PFT) has announced that its AI/ML-powered native media recognition engine CLEAR Vision Cloud has been engaged by ITV, the oldest and largest commercial terrestrial television network in the United Kingdom for delivering AI-based automatic segmentation of long-form content. ITV currently marks about 12 types of segments in the content manually, which are […]
UK commercial public service broadcaster Channel 5 is to join Digital UK Ltd, the joint venture which facilitates the provision of Freeview and Freesat, alongside BBC, ITV and Channel 4. The four public service broadcasters have entered into a new Digital UK members’ agreement, marking the first time that the venture has been wholly owned […]