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ITV is set to launch a series of short films focused on Black people telling their stories of racism and their vision of changes they believe should happen.

ITV has announced a range of measures to create more opportunities for those from Black, Asian, minority ethnic and other underrepresented groups.

ITV, BBC, Sky, Channel 4, Channel 5, STV, ITN, the Association for Commercial Broadcasters and On-Demand Services (COBA) and Pact have come together to introduce new guidelines for producing television safely in the weeks and months ahead.

For the first three months of the year, revenues at ITV plc were down 7 percent to £694 million ($860 million), largely due to COVID-19's impact on its studios arm.

ITV has created a £500,000 development fund targeted at the U.K. independent sector to help producers during the COVID-19 crisis, while the BBC has outlined its own package of measures to bolster the creative health of indies.

The U.K. public-service broadcasters BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and S4C have come together to ask the government to work with them to support freelancers working in the broadcasting industry during this challenging period amid the coronavirus outbreak.

ITV is cutting £100 million ($116 million) from its programming budget and suspending the production of Coronation Street and Emmerdale due to the COVID-19 crisis.

Full-year revenues at ITV plc were up 3 percent to £3.3 billion ($4.3 billion), led by its production and distribution division as ad revenues slipped by 1.5 percent.

ITV and the BBC are both set to broadcast matches during next summer’s EURO 2020 tournament, which will be held across 12 countries to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the European Championship.

BritBox, the streaming service created by BBC and ITV, has officially opened for business in the U.K. and has signed a partnership deal with Channel 4 for British TV boxsets from All 4 and movies from Film4.