All ITV articles – Page 273

  • News

    ITV plans double dose of The X Factor

    2009-05-26T10:57:00Z

    ITV is in talks to deliver a double whammy of X Factor during the live finals, with a separate results show on Sunday nights.

  • News

    Channels agree five-year ban on revisiting Kangaroo

    2009-05-26T10:29:00Z

    Project Kangaroo partners the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV have made a five-year agreement with the Competition Commission that they will not try to acquire any part of their rivals video-on-demand activities.

  • News

    STV to launch new daily show The Hour

    2009-05-22T10:38:00Z

    STV has revealed plans for its new daily magazine show The Hour - set to launch next Tuesday.

  • News

    iTunes Festival returns to ITV2

    2009-05-22T10:36:00Z

    Kasabian, Oasis and Snow Patrol are set for ITV2 this summer, with commissioners ordering a second dose of the iTunes Live: London Festival.

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    News

    ITV's future technology department faces axe

    2009-05-21T18:58:00Z

    The man behind ITV’s push to embed adverts in online content and develop its technological abilities is facing redundancy as part of ITV’s cost-cutting measures.

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    News

    ITV cuts overtake £150m of Fincham's warning

    2009-05-21T18:46:00Z

    ITV director of television, multi-channels and online Peter Fincham warned last year that ITV1’s schedule would be decimated if £150m was pulled from its programming budget – £10m less than the total cuts now pledged across ITV’s channels by the end of 2011.

  • News

    Suchet on board Orient Express for ITV1 history doc

    2009-05-21T18:40:00Z

    Life will imitate art for Poirot actor David Suchet as he takes the Orient Express across Europe for an ITV1 documentary.

  • David Mannion: Doubts Ofcom plan
    News

    Mannion questions Ofcom's plans for news

    2009-05-21T17:57:00Z

    ITV News editor-in-chief David Mannion has questioned whether independent regional news consortia could produce stories to a network standard, and believes that ITN is best placed to take over any new regional news contracts.

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    Features

    Getting under the skin of HD strategy

    2009-05-21T17:42:00Z

    Channel 4 and ITV’s road maps to high-definition Freeview look to have gone off course. Is it just a bump in the road or will their plans crash and burn?

  • News

    Screen Yorkshire abandons ITV studios bid

    2009-05-20T07:38:00Z

    Screen Yorkshire has ruled out making a rescue bid for ITV’s Kirkstall Road Studios after deciding that its money would be better spent on trying to generate new production work.

  • News

    Parkinson: Melvyn Bragg should join BBC

    2009-05-19T02:09:00Z

    Michael Parkinson has urged outgoing host of The South Bank Show, Melvyn Bragg, to join the BBC when the iconic arts programme ends next summer.

  • News

    ITV Wales veteran latest cuts casualty

    2009-05-18T01:45:00Z

    ITV Wales national director Elis Owen will leave the broadcaster after 30 years of service, following a restructure of the Wales and English regions commissioning team.

  • News

    Primeval movie deal confirmed

    2009-05-15T23:32:00Z

    Warner Bros. has confirmed it has signed a “high six-figure” deal for the screen rights to ITV1 sci-fi series Primeval and revealed some of the key people involved with the project.

  • News

    UTV revenue drops 9%

    2009-05-15T23:30:00Z

    UTV Media, owner of the Northern Ireland ITV franchise, said revenue fell 9% in the four months through April as advertisers cut budgets.

  • News

    ITV forecasts 19% drop in ad revenue

    2009-05-14T23:37:00Z

    ITV AGM: ITV is predicting its advertising revenues will fall 19% this quarter as the recession continues to wreak havoc with the television ad market - and says it will “move away” from red button, interactivity and gaming.

  • News

    ITV shareholders voice anger at Grade

    2009-05-14T23:34:00Z

    ITV AGM: Angry shareholders frustrated at ITV’s underperformance aimed their frustrations squarely at ITV executive chairman Michael Grade in the commercial broadcaster’s AGM today (14 May).

  • News

    Grade: Canvas won't fail like Kangaroo

    2009-05-14T23:29:00Z

    ITV AGM: ITV executive chairman Michael Grade has staunchly defended the commercial broadcaster’s investment into its VOD joint venture with BT and the BBC - Project Canvas.

  • News

    ITV company secretary resigns

    2009-05-14T23:16:00Z

    ITV AGM: ITV company secretary James Tibbitts has resigned after five years in the post.

  • News

    ITV programming budget slashed by £20m

    2009-05-14T22:45:00Z

    ITV AGM: ITV is to cut its programming budget by a further £20m - part of measures to save £40m at the commercial broadcaster.

  • News

    ITV names chief exec headhunter

    2009-05-14T22:41:00Z

    ITV AGM: ITV has tasked Russell Reynolds Associates with finding its new chief executive.