ITV knocked by advertising slide
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Annual profits at broadcaster ITV fall  as a result of a continuing decline in advertising revenues.
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Strange stirrings at advertising broker
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Britain&#39;s biggest commercial broadcaster  ITV said on Wednesday the performance of its main channel had  begun to stabilize as the decline in ratings slowed but  advertising revenue was still down 9 percent.
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The Competition Commission on Thursday recommended that media giant BSkyB should slash its holding in independent television broadcaster ITV due to substantial competition concerns.
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Ready for the tech that never arrives? The British "HD for All" campaign, designed to promote hi-def TV, drew a withering blast from Sky yesterday.â¦
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ITV has reported a sharp increase in half-year profits and says advertising revenue growth is accelerating. The firm, which controls more than half
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ITV, the nation's biggest commercial television network, announced Wednesday that net profit declined last year and it forecast further falls in crucial advertising revenues.
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ITV rejects a merger proposal from the cable firm NTL, saying it undervalues the broadcaster.
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The chairman of the BBC, Michael Grade, has resigned to take the top job at ITV, the public service broadcaster's main commercial but struggling competitor.
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BSkyB, the satellite television company affiliated with the News Corporation, has bought a 17.9 percent stake in ITV, BritainÂs biggest commercial broadcaster, in a move that could thwart the ambitions of Richard Branson, the Virgin Group entrepreneur, to strengthen his position in the British media market. Mr. Branson had hoped to combine ITV with a cable company, NTL, in which he owns an 11 percent stake. The battle for ITV is rooted in a struggle for control of living rooms in Britain, which has one of the highest rates of digital TV and broadband Internet use in the world. BSkyB is the countryÂs biggest pay-TV operator, with more than eight million subscribers to its satellite system. NTL hoped to use the Virgin brand name and the ability to sell a Âquadruple playÂ of television, broadband, fixed-line phone service and cellphone service to gain an edge on Sky.
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Britain's largest commercial television network ITV comfortably beat profit forecasts in the first half of this year and said advertising revenues rose 4.9 percent year-on-year, the best performance since 2000.
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The BBC's international website will carry advertisements to help plug a Â£2bn budget shortfall.
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Guerrilla marketing has become more popular but the Turner Broadcasting campaign left the network scrambling to apologize.
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Microsoft has been warned by the UK's advertising watchdog about misleading Windows vs Linux adverts.
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Business & money: Google may have to wait another year to overtake ITV1 as the UK's biggest single advertising income generator, despite UK revenues of Â£1.3bn for 2007
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For the major broadcast networks, February is bringing the kind of advertising dollars they have perhaps not seen in a month of Sundays.
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Nintendo says it may pull UK television advertising for its popular Wii console because it is battling to meet demand.