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Granada Media Granada, the TV broadcaster, is to close its Albert Dock site in Liverpool and relocate up to 20 staff once a suitable alternative has been found in the city centre. 03-Dec-2003 Granada Media is to relocate Meridian Broadcasting from Southampton to a new £6m site near Fareham, with the loss of 175 jobs, while some work will transfer to London. 21-Nov-2003 Granada Media is said to be considering plans to relocate its Meridian regional news operation away from Southampton, and a number of sites in Hampshire are being considered. 14-Oct-2003 Granada and Carlton have won government approval for a £4.5bn merger, which will help the ITV companies compete with the BBC and BSkyB. 08-Oct-2003 Granada is to open a new £5m TV studio in Manchester early next year, in order to produce special editions of Coronation Street. 09-Dec-2002 Granada and Carlton are planning a £2.7bn merger, which would create a combined commercial broadcasting business with 8,000 staff. 14-Oct-2002 Granada and Carlton are planning to invest a record £825m in new programming for ITV next year. 18-Sep-2002 Granada Media is to invest £1m in Anglia Television's Magdalen Street studios in Norwich to create a new centre for daytime programming, but the Hardwick House site will be closed with the loss of 25 jobs. 10-Apr-2002 Boots and Granada are to close their Wellbeing Network digital TV channel with the loss of 80 jobs, while Granada has also announced plans to shed a further 400 jobs over the next few months. 28-Nov-2001 Granada Media is said to be planning to close its Meridian West TV studio in Newbury, in order to centralise the local news operation at the Southampton broadcasting centre. 21-Nov-2001 Granada Media is discussing plans to launch a TV channel dedicated to Liverpool Football Club. 31-Aug-2001 Granada and Carlton Communications are planning a £4m revamp for their London News Network joint venture, which will result in the loss of about 28 of the 250 jobs. 17-Aug-2001 Granada has acquired Border Television from Capital Radio for £50m, and Capital will use the proceeds to invest in its radio business. 01-Aug-2001 Granada is to shed up to 100 management jobs in order to save £20m a year, and the group will be reorganised into two divisions - content and broadcasting platforms. 14-Jun-2001 Granada and Carlton Communications are planning to combine their ITV, pay-TV and internet operations under the ITV brand, which will result in ONdigital being renamed ITV Digital. 23-Apr-2001 Granada Media is to shed 30 jobs at Anglia Television, in order to transfer the production of wildlife programmes from Norwich to Bristol. 31-Jan-2001 Granada Media is discussing plans to merge its internet operations with those of Carlton Communications, in order to maximise the value of the ITV brand name. 29-Jan-2001 The BBC and Granada Media are planning to merge their production facilities in Manchester by forming a new joint venture company called 3sixtymedia, and similar deals are expected in other regions. 15-Jan-2001 Granada Media is planning to roll out its new Boxclever TV rental format, which will involve closing about 360 of its 900 outlets and converting the rest to Boxclever. 18-Dec-2000 Granada Media is to combine LWT Productions and United Productions under one management structure, creating a new partnership that will make about £175m of TV programmes a year. 08-Nov-2000 Carlton Communications is to acquire HTV, the Welsh ITV franchise, from Granada Media, in exchange for £181m and Carlton's 20% stake in the Meridian licence. 24-Oct-2000 Granada Media is forming a joint venture with Boots to set up a health and beauty digital TV channel and e-commerce business, and the two companies will invest £18m in the first year. 13-Oct-2000 Granada Media is planning to acquire a 45% stake in TV3, the Irish commercial TV broadcaster, for £19m, which will mark the start of an alliance with CanWest, the Canadian company that owns 45% of TV3. 12-Sep-2000 Granada Media is acquiring a 5% stake in Arsenal for £47m, and will invest a further £30m if the football club can secure planning permission for a new £150m stadium. 08-Sep-2000 Granada Media and the BBC are forming a Manchester-based joint venture to provide broadcast production facilities to TV programme makers in the north-west. 02-Aug-2000 Granada Media is to acquire the broadcast, programme production and international distribution business of United News & Media, in a £1.75bn deal that includes the Meridian, Anglia and HTV franchises. 28-Jul-2000 Granada Media is investing £20m in a joint venture with Liverpool Football Club to develop an online platform to broadcast delayed coverage of live matches, and the new company will be called Liverpool FC Broadband. 26-Jul-2000 More from the Media sector Related pages: Trinity Mirror Winchester Entertainment BBC Electric Word Virtue Broadcasting Granada Media website: www.granadamedia.com The information on this page comes from the UK Activity Report. 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