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ITV is to invest £5m in the refurbishment of its Kirkstall Road TV studio in Leeds over the next year. 07-Dec-2009 ITV has placed its remaining Carlton Screen Advertising interests into voluntary liquidation through Grant Thornton. 16-Nov-2009 ITV is to sell its Friends Reunited social networking business to the Brightsolid division of Dundee-based DC Thomson for £25m. 06-Aug-2009 ITV is to shed 600 jobs, including up to 150 at its Kirkstall Road studios in Leeds, as part of a nationwide cost-cutting programme. 04-Mar-2009 ITV is planning to close its factual programming department in Manchester in January 2009 with the loss of 26 jobs, while its Manchester-based features team will merge with the current affairs department. 15-Oct-2008 ITV is planning to cut back its regional news services with the loss of up to 200 jobs throughout the country. 22-Sep-2008 ITV is said to be in negotiations with Peel Holdings to relocate its Manchester-based TV production centre to the Mediacity development in Salford. 10-Sep-2008 ITV has sold its 50% stake in Arsenal Broadband to KSE UK for £23m, as part of a strategy to dispose of its football assets. 08-Apr-2008 ITV has sold its 50% stake in Liverpoolfc.tv to The Liverpool Football and Athletic Grounds for £16m. 06-Mar-2008 ITV is looking into the possibility of setting up a chain of Rovers Return pubs in high streets throughout the country, in order to exploit the popularity of its Coronation Street programme. 03-Mar-2008 ITV has appointed Grant Thornton to find a buyer for its Carlton Screen cinema advertising business. 21-Jan-2008 ITV is to acquire 12 Yard, the London-based independent TV production company, for up to £35m. 05-Dec-2007 ITV is planning to close nine of its 17 local news broadcasting centres across the country, in order to reduce its £120m annual budget for regional services. 13-Sep-2007 ITV Productions is planning to shed up to 30 jobs at its documentaries department in Leeds. 05-Mar-2007 ITV is to relocate 120 staff to a new transmissions facility in Chiswick over the next 18 months, and the site will be run by Technicolor Network Services. 08-Jan-2007 ITV is to invest about £20m in the launch of a broadband TV site at the end of March, enabling viewers to watch the last 30 days of programming online. 03-Jan-2007 ITV has acquired Enable Media, the owner of the Scoot online directory, for about £3m. 04-Dec-2006 ITV has sold its 45% stake in TV3, the Irish commercial TV company, to private equity firm Doughty Hanson for £70m. 24-Aug-2006 ITV is to invest £2.6m in the expansion of the Culverhouse Cross TV studios in Cardiff, and Greenfield Media and other media companies are expected to relocate to the 50-acre site. 15-Jun-2006 ITV is to close its Central South and Meridian West services and replace them with a new Thames Valley service, prompting speculation that up to 50 jobs could be lost. 09-Jun-2006 United Business Media has sold the Culverhouse Cross TV complex in Cardiff to ITV for £19m. 11-Apr-2006 ITV has sold its Granada Learning educational publishing business to private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson for up to £53m. 06-Apr-2006 ITV is to sell 021 Television, its Birmingham-based outside broadcast facilities business, to Gravity Media Group for £4.5m. 18-Jan-2006 ITV is to close its ITV News Channel early next year with the loss of an estimated 25 jobs, and the money saved will be reinvested in news on ITV1. 15-Dec-2005 ITV is to acquire Friends Reunited, the online business that includes genealogy, dating and jobs web sites, for up to £175m. 07-Dec-2005 ITV is looking to sell 021 Television, its Birmingham-based outside broadcasting business with 58 staff, by the end of the year. 03-Oct-2005 ITV is planning to sell off about half of its 2m sq ft of studio space, including sites in Newcastle, Bristol, Norwich, Birmingham and Manchester. 16-May-2005 ITV has acquired SDN, the digital TV multiplex operator that carries ten Freeview channels, for £134m. 28-Apr-2005 ITV is planning to close its multichannel production unit in Manchester with the loss of up to 20 jobs. 21-Feb-2005 ITV has sold its Superhire props hire business to Space Holdings for £8.2m. 14-Feb-2005 ITV is to shed 38 jobs in Leeds, 19 in Norwich and eight in Manchester, as part of the reorganisation of its regional operations. 20-Dec-2004 ITV is planning to relocate its CiTV children's TV presentation department and 20 jobs from Birmingham to Manchester early next year. 29-Nov-2004 ITV has agreed to sell The Moving Picture Company, the provider of TV special effects, to the Technicolor division of Thomson of France for £53m. 15-Nov-2004 ITV is said to be planning to shed a further 200 jobs at its non-news regional broadcasting operations throughout the country. 08-Nov-2004 ITV is to set up a new Central News TV studio for 45 staff at the Chetwynd Retail Park in Nottinghamshire. 08-Sep-2004 ITV is said to be looking to sell The Moving Picture Company, the provider of TV special effects, for up to £50m by the end of the year. 09-Aug-2004 ITV is to shed up to 200 jobs in Birmingham and has confirmed plans to close its TV studio in Nottingham with the loss of a further 200 jobs. 27-Feb-2004 ITV is considering plans to close its TV studio in Nottingham with the loss of up to 200 jobs, in order to transfer the work to Birmingham. 16-Feb-2004 ITV is seeking suitable sites in the north-east to set up a £6m digital TV centre for Tyne Tees. 02-Feb-2004 ITV has formed a pact with On Digital that will enable both companies to broadcast live football from the Uefa Champions League, in a four-year deal worth about £260m. 18-Feb-1999 ITV has agreed a £4m deal with Guinness for the sponsorship of TV coverage for this year's Rugby World Cup. 17-Feb-1999 ITV is said to be planning to boost its programming budget by £50m to £670m, in response to growing competition from cable and satellite TV. 26-Sep-1998 The Office of Fair Trading is to investigate ITV's decision not to supply its TV channels to BSkyB's forthcoming satellite service. 20-Aug-1998 Up to 15% of households may not be able to receive the new digital terrestrial TV service later this year because their rooftop aerials are inadequate, and the problem is being debated by the BBC, ITV and British Digital Broadcasting. 01-Jul-1998 ITV is refusing to pay BSkyB to carry its channels on the new digital satellite service, which means they will only be available on digital terrestrial and cable. 06-Jun-1998 The Independent Television Commission has been approached by eleven ITV companies wanting early renewal of their broadcasting licences, with most of them trying to get a reduction in the amount paid to the Treasury. 02-Jun-1998 ITV has announced plans to invest £21m a year on the production of programmes for its second digital TV channel, which is due for launch in November. 13-May-1998 ITV is to create a smaller programming policy group in order to streamline the decision-making process for programme scheduling at its member companies. 08-Oct-1997 The government has decided to phase out the Channel 4 funding formula by 1999, meaning that the channel will no longer have to make special payments to ITV and will instead have a further £80m a year to invest in programmes. 29-Jul-1997 ITV is planning to spend £230m on drama programmes in 1997 as part of a strategy to attract viewers and advertisers through the development of "appointment viewing". 24-Sep-1996 Westcountry, the ITV company, is considering an autumn stock market flotation. 20-Jul-1996 Six ITV companies - Granada, Carlton, United News & Media, Yorkshire-Tyne Tees, HTV and Scottish Television - are planning to start making 10 feature films a year and provide a £100m boost to the UK film industry over the next five years. 17-Jul-1996 BSkyB is aiming to challenge Independent Television News for the contract to supply news to ITV, probably in a joint effort with a number of ITV companies. 04-Jul-1996 Advertising on ITV is forecast to suffer negative growth over the next few years due to competition from satellite and other new channels, according to KPMG. 01-Apr-1996 Mirror Group has devised contingency plans which will allow it to buy a commercial broadcaster if the opportunity arose, thereby getting round the government restriction on big newspaper publishers owning more than 20% of an ITV company. 15-Mar-1996 The government is to significantly cut the payments made by Channel 4 to ITV under the funding formula. 08-Mar-1996 BSkyB is to apply to become a news supplier to ITV, in a first-ever challenge to the monopoly of ITN. 06-Feb-1996 The new Broadcasting Bill is to allow greater consolidation in the ITV network, with predatory companies able to expand their interests. 16-Dec-1995 ITV plans to respond to falling advertising revenue by squeezing suppliers and reducing the costs of commissioned programmes. 10-Nov-1995 ITV has seen a drop in demand for advertising, with November revenue expected to be down 6% on last year. 20-Oct-1995 Yorkshire-Tyne Tees Television says it wants a vote among ITV companies over whether News at Ten should be moved to another time. 12-Sep-1995
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