Media Consumption
ITV connects with Virgin Media O2 on enhanced prominence, advertising
ITV’s live channels and the ITV Hub will also be made available through Virgin TV’s upcoming IPTV service
ITV
Production & Post
How NEP helped ITV’s Love Island create a long distance relationship in 2021
Robotic cameras were managed remotely from London using NEP Connect’s Anylive network, with the show's directors operating as if they were actually at the...
Production & Post
Broadcasters, streamers sign up for The Climate Content Pledge
The Climate Content Pledge has been convened by albert, the screen industry organisation for environmental sustainability
Business
ITV updates green targets ahead of Cop26
ITV said all of its suppliers with the highest environmental risk will be required to meet its best practice sustainability criteria by 2025
Business
ITV, Michael Grade ‘mulling bids’ for Channel 4
The former Channel 4 boss originally fought against the idea of privatising the channel, but changed his mind in 2015
Media Delivery
ITV Hub records best ever month
ITV Hub+, the ad-free subscription version of ITV Hub, also broke records
Media Management
ITV moves simulcast delivery to the cloud with AWS
ITV Hub has now moved a majority of its video processing and transport into the cloud
Live Production
ITV heads to the cloud for graphics from Singular.live
ITV Wales employed Data Streams as part of its coverage of the Welsh Assembly election
Business
BT ‘hopes to announce Sport deal by next quarter’
ITV CEO Carolyn McCall says broadcaster is not looking to buy BT Sport, but doesn't rule out a possible tie-up between the two
Business
McCall: ITV emerging from worst of the pandemic
Broadcaster said it had seen "the largest advertising revenues for the month of June for ITV in its history"
Media Management
All workflows lead to the cloud
TVBEurope talks to three experts about points of challenge and opportunity in media delivery
Media Consumption
Euro 2020 final scores biggest UK TV audience since 1997
Ratings peaked at almost 31 millions as England's men's team missed out on their first major trophy since 1966
Media Consumption
ITV becomes first UK broadcaster to launch shoppable TV
AI technology identifies and tags featured products during programmes and notifies viewers that products on-screen are available
Business
Whittingdale: Merging ITV and Channel 4 “an interesting possibility”
Minister in charge of the consultation on the future of Channel 4 was speaking to the DCMS Committee
Media Consumption
England v Scotland scores for ITV
Friday's match reached an audience of 18.4 million viewers - much more than the corresponding game at Euro 96 when there were 250 fewer...
Media Consumption
Sky, Channel 4 and ITV’s new advertising metric takes CFlight
New post-campaign online evaluation tool uses combined linear TV and broadcaster VoD (BVoD) data to show media buyers how popular their campaigns have been
Business
BBC, ITV beat the scrum for Six Nations broadcast rights
Men’s Guinness Six Nations, Women’s Six Nations and Men’s Under- 20’s all set to stay on free-to-air TV
Live Production
dB Broadcast delivers new green machines for ITV Daytime
New fleet of satellite vehicles include, where possible, broadcast equipment repurposed from ITV's previous vehicles
Business
ITV warns of ‘radical changes’ needed if PSM system to continue
The broadcaster has laid out five areas where it says Ofcom and the government need to act in order to future-proof public service media
Business
BBC, ITV, Channel 4 pledge extra investment in Freeview
Investment follows last year's decision by Arqiva to pull its investment from Freeview
Live Production
ITV signs three-year deal with Extreme E
ITV will become the exclusive UK terrestrial broadcaster for Extreme E in 2022 and 2023
Business
ITV revenues hit by Covid, but broadcaster is ‘seeing more positive trends’
BritBox UK, which ITV runs with BBC Studios, is ahead of the company’s business plan after hitting 500,000 subscriptions in January 2021
Media Delivery
BritBox heads to South Africa
BBC/ITV joint venture is set to launch in its fifth worldwide territory
Business
ITV makes key appointments across data division
Four newly created positions have been filled as part of the broadcaster's drive to transform its data and AI strategy
Media Delivery
ITV employs DIMPACT web app to build sustainable design into its VoD service
App enables users to understand their ‘downstream’ carbon impacts, right through to the end-user
Media Delivery
British broadcasters in talks for new joint streaming app
New app would also enable the broadcasters to have a presence on the homescreen of Smart TVs
Business
ITV begins search for Bazalgette’s successor
Peter Bazalgette expected to stand down at the end of his tenure in May 2022
Production & Post
Celebrating 60 years of the Weatherfield cobbles
Philip Stevens looks back over 60 years of ITV's Coronation Street
Live Production
Sport’s eventful year
As 2020 comes to an end, Philip Stevens talks to ITV Sport's Roger Pearce about a year of fewer events – and the hopes...
Media Management
Deltatre, ITV extend BritBox partnership
The two parties say they plan to explore new technologies, including investigating the potential for increased UX personalisation.
Production & Post
BAFTA’s albert launches Creative Offsets scheme
ITV's Dancing on Thin Ice with Torvill & Dean is the first show to achieve the new standard of albert Certification.
Media Delivery
Lack of Love Island sees fewer viewers to ITV Hub
ITV's online viewing fell six per cent during Q3 2020
Business
Analyst: ITV restructure ‘not so much smart as very necessary’
Analyst Alex DeGroote talks to TVBEurope about ITV's plan to refocus the business.
Business
ITV announces restructure, new focus on broadcast and on-demand
Broadcaster also reveals plans to reduce its London office space "over the coming years"
Production & Post
ITV sets 2030 net zero carbon emissions target
Business will work alongside colleagues, suppliers, programme makers and the albert consortium to achieve net zero target
Media Delivery
ITV and FooEngine cases highlight Telestream’s remote working focus
Company highlights remote working capabilities as post-pandemic business driver
Production & Post
The Tour de France 2020, live from Maidstone Studios
Maidstone Studios has revealed that it has been selected to broadcast the 2020 Tour de France daily live studio output from 29th August to...
Business
ITV partners with InfoSum to enable targeted advertiser access to Hub subs
ITV has this morning announced it is partnering with identity infrastructure provider InfoSum to provide advertisers with access to its 30 million ITV Hub...
Business
Carolyn McCall: ‘This has been one of the most challenging times in the history of ITV’
Broadcaster has announced its earnings for the first half of 2020