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ITV has entered the bidding for Endemol Shine, the $4bn (£3bn) independent production giant behind programmes such as Big Brother, The Fall, MasterChef and Peaky Blinders

Amazon is to add more than 40 TV channels to its UK streaming service, including ITV and live sport for the first time, upping the stakes against rival Netflix and pay-TV operators such as Sky.

ITV paid a reported £50m to lure the The Voice away from The BBC in 2015 but it was the purchase earlier in the year of Talpa Media, the Dutch production company that created The Voice, that represents the longer-term investment for the future. But as Mr Crozier enters his seventh year in charge at ITV, questions are beginning to emerge about the long-term direction of the company and Mr Crozier’s own future

The chief executive of Virgin Media has rejected speculation that its parent company, the pan-European cable empire Liberty Global, could seize on weakness in ITV’s share price to mount a takeover bid for Britain’s biggest commercial broadcaster.

Tom Mockridge told the Sunday Telegraph that Liberty had “enough to do as it is” without wading further into programming. Liberty owns 9.9pc of ITV and has bought the equivalent commercial broadcaster in Ireland, fuelling speculation that it is lining up an approach for ITV.

been rebuffed in a £1bn takeover offer for Entertainment One (eOne), owner of hit children’s TV show Peppa Pig, as it looks to extend an acquisition spree aimed at reducing its reliance on volatile advertising income. Canadian film and TV producer and distributor eOne said it had received and rejected a preliminary proposal to buy the company for 236p a share, or £1.01bn in total

Broadcaster saw share price fall by more than 20% on Friday, raising speculation it will become target for takeover bid

At the start of 2016, UK television broadcasters were on a roll. Spending on TV advertising had surged more than 7 per cent to £5.3bn in 2015. ITV, the UK’s biggest commercial broadcaster, was looking forward to another strong year — thanks in part to sporting events including the European football championships. But, so far, the TV ad market in 2016 is flat, or just marginally stronger than at the same point last year, according to media agencies. Some industry analysts even believe TV ad spending could fall this year — for the first time since the global financial crisis in 2009.

British broadcaster holds preliminary talks with Canadian distributor and producer

On Sunday night, in a studio close to one of east London’s most car-clogged arteries, a fake Alpine hill will be alive with the sound of music in a £2m production that marks the first time a musical has been broadcast live on national television in the UK.

Broadcaster to air its first series of former BBC singing contest in January 2017 as it also agrees to make two seasons of The Voice Kids

ITV has eased worries about straitened marketing budgets after it was bolstered by continued strong growth in television advertising

Owner of franchise in Northern Ireland and loss-making channel UTV Ireland has been in talks with ITV since August ITV is understood to have been able to drive a hard deal owing to the poor launch of UTV Ireland.

If television is dying, British advertisers have yet to hear the message. Spending on TV advertising in the UK will surge 9 per cent this year to £4.2bn, according to forecasts by GroupM

ITV has agreed to pay up to £280m for Twofour Group, the maker of The Jump and Educating Yorkshire, in its latest effort to strengthen its in-house studios. The broadcaster has already spent nearly £1.5bn on production companies under chief executive Adam Crozier, in order to avoid being left behind as audiences switch to online viewing. […]

ITV is close to announcing that the acquisition of Plymouth-based independent TV production company TwoFour

ITV is on the verge of paying up to $950m (£630m) for the TV division of The Weinstein Company, the production studio set up by veteran film and TV producer Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob, according to reports

ITV has bought the makers of BBC1’s The Voice, Dutch production company Talpa Media, for £355m in a deal that could end up costing more than double that

The UK commercial broadcaster said that net advertising revenues would grow 11 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2015 — slightly above analysts’ estimates, boosted by spending being brought forward due to the UK general election. In 2014, ad revenues rose 6 per cent to £1.6bn

As a result of this M&A activity, seven of the 10 biggest UK TV producers – leaving aside the BBC and ITV – are now in foreign ownership, according to the recently published Televisual Production 100 survey for 2014, and City analysts are tipping the UK’s largest advertiser-funded broadcaster to be in foreign ownership within five years

According to the FT today ITV has intensified its calls for BSkyB and Virgin Media to pay millions of pounds to carry its channels, saying that this type of payment model had helped to create a “golden age” of US television. For the full story read FT.com