ITV rules out bid for Channel 5 as studio booms February 26, 2014 ITV YESTERDAY insisted it had no plans to bid for rival Channel 5, but said it was on the lookout for other acquisitions to add to its booming Studio business. Speaking as the broadcaster posted a 30 per cent rise in pre-tax profits to £435m for 2013, chief executive Adam Crozier said ITV would not [...]
ITV profits boom after best on-screen performance for a decade February 26, 2014 Broadcaster ITV has reported a jump in profits before tax of 30 per cent to £435m for the year ended 31 December. 2013 marked the fourth year in a row of double digit profit gains for the company. Growth in online, pay & interactive of 16 per cent drove broadcast and online revenues up by [...]
ITV takes a controlling stake in Teen Wolf producer DiGa Vision February 19, 2014 BROADCASTER ITV has taken a controlling stake in DiGa Vision, producer of US television series Teen Wolf. ITV yesterday announced that it will make a cash payment for a 51 per cent stake in DiGa Vision with a put and call option to buy the remainder of the company in between three and six years. [...]
ITV acquires the producer of hit US show Teen Wolf February 19, 2014 Broadcaster ITV has acquired a controlling stake in DiGa Vision, according to a corporate filing. DiGa is behind the hit show Teen Wolf, a reinvention of the 1985 film which is currently in its third season, and airs on MTV. ITV says that the acquisition represents a step forward in a strategy "of building a [...]
ITV’s The Only Way Is Essex gets a new home this year on ITVBe February 12, 2014 ITV WILL launch a lifestyle and reality television channel, to become the exclusive home of ITV’s award-winning show The Only Way Is Essex, aimed at a younger female audience when it launches towards the end of 2014. The new channel, called ITVBe, will be free on Freeview, Sky and Virgin, and will be supported by [...]
Encore une fois: ITV launches new on-demand pay channel on Sky January 29, 2014 ITV WILL launch its first new channel in eight years on Sky as part of a four year deal that includes a renewal of the broadcaster’s retransmission deal covering Sky’s 4.8m high definition subscribers. ITV Encore will host some of ITV’s top drama series from recent years, as well as original content from 2015. “ITV [...]