05 Dec 2008
| by Maisie McCabe
LONDON - ITV has renamed its video-on-demand offering, Catch Up, as ITV Player....The player allows customers to watch a selection of ITV shows online for 30 days after their initial broadcast. Ben McOwen Wilson, director of online at ITV, said the new branding was part of ITV ...
. McOwen Wilson said the rebrand was part of ITV s overall ambition to make its content widely available ...
11 Aug 2011
| by Maisie McCabe
UKTV has poached ITV controller of digital channels Emma Tennant for the position of controller...profit and loss accounts of their channels will report to Tennant.
As controller of ITV's digital channels ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4, Tennant was responsible for commissioning programmes such as 'Martina Cole ...
ITV in October 2005 as controller of ITV3. She took on additional responsibilities for CITV in 2007 ...
04 Nov 2011
| by Sara Kimberley
Halifax has agreed a month-long deal to sponsor ITV's catch-up service ITV Player....Halifax will have a presence on an exclusive dedicated short-form content area of ITV Player, which will feature mini catch-up episodes of ITV programming. It will also skin the player.
The deal was brokered by ITV Commercial and MEC and is intended to amplify Halifax's Saturday Opening campaign launched ...
04 Nov 2008
| by Milly Glaister
LONDON - ITV has launched a new royal channel on its ITV Local service, offering archive footage...The historic ITV footage, drawn from the archives of the ITV regions and including some never-before-seen clips, will be added until every royal visit filmed by ITV is online. The footage dates back to 1956, with Queen Elizabeth's visit to Llanelli following her coronation. As with many of its other channels, ITV ...
07 Jul 2010
| by Maisie McCabe
Lee Bartlett, the former managing director of ITV Studios who was sidelined when Channel 4's..., was announced, ITV said Bartlett would be staying with the broadcaster in an international role.
Bartlett ...
to oversee ITV Studios international interests, and will be an integral part of the new team." Today, Crozier said as result of changes ITV was making to its global content business, Bartlett would now leave ...
04 Mar 2009
| by Emma Barnett
LONDON - Carolyn Fairbairn, ITV's group strategy director, has called for consolidation in the TV...Speaking last night, on the eve of ITV's results, at a London Business School debate, Digital Britain and the Future of UK PSB Television, Fairbairn called for radical rethinking in the UK TV market. When asked whether such a new approach referred to the need for some combination between ITV, Channel 4 ...
02 Aug 2010
| by Maisie McCabe
ITV is expected to announce plans to reduce its dependency on advertising and go after new revenue...'s structural issues since joining the broadcaster in April.
Crozier will lead a process to make ITV less ...
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It is understood that ITV will look to generate income from pay-TV sources, its online properties and by selling ...
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It has been suggested that ITV could launch a new pay-TV brand, charge consumers to watch content online ...
07 Jul 2009
| by Adrian Pennington
ITV's fall from its pinnacle in the late 1990s has been dramatic, with ITV1 suffering the worst...Ever since ITV posted a 2.7bn loss for 2008 in March, the UK's leading commercial broadcaster ...
to an organisation that has been in continual decline since the advent of Channel 4 in 1982 and Sky in 1989. ITV ...
director at Aegis Media, who spent 15 years at ITV's sales house, says: "ITV had its highest revenue ...
08 Jan 2009
| by Emma Barnett
LONDON - ITV has signed a deal with Virgin Media to make its most popular shows available on Virgin...The agreement will give ITV its largest potential on demand audience with Virgin Media's 3.5 million TV customers able to view more than 40 hours of programming from ITV 1, 2, 3 and 4 each week ...
broadcast as part of Virgin Media's Catch-up TV service. There will be 500 hours of ITV programming ...
28 Nov 2008
| by Tristan O'Carroll
's ruling that it must cut its 17.9% stake in ITV to below 10%....that it must cut its ITV stake. Earlier this month, the Competition Commission recommended that BSkyB reduce its controversial 17.9% stake in ITV to less than 10%. The satellite broadcaster had been hoping ...
on the market would trigger a sharp fall in the share price of its holding in ITV, which has already plummeted ...