Tag: ITV

Delivering ITV's Q3 trading update, Chief Executive Carolyn McCall said there have been "encouraging signs" in its broadcasting and studios divisions, with fourth-quarter ad revenues expected to see a year-on-year increase.

ITV is restructuring its broadcasting business, creating a new media and entertainment division, to be led by Kevin Lygo, with two units, broadcast and on-demand.

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.