This article was updated at 5:52 p.m. LONDON — The British government confirmed Tuesday that it will wave through the £4 billion ($6.4 billion) merger of ITV’s largest shareholders, Carlton and ...

LONDON — ITV, Blighty’s commercial broadcasting superpower for many years, now trails pubcaster the BBC and satcaster BSkyB in revenue “by a sizable margin,” one of its top execs admitted on Thursday.

LONDON — The prospects of a U.S. media combine swooping in on ITV, the struggling U.K. commercial web in the throes of a $6.5 billion merger, have improved, with investors braced to eject the new ...

LONDON — U.S. media giants will find out today whether U.K. commercial web ITV will be worth buying when Trade and Industry secretary Patricia Hewitt delivers her verdict on the proposed £4 billion ...

LONDON — Major investors in Carlton and Granada, the two largest shareholders in Blighty commercial web ITV, are calling for its two top execs to step aside if the merger goes ahead later this year.

LONDON — As Blighty media watchdog Ofcom prepares to review public service broadcasting, ITV director of programs Nigel Pickard called for the commercial net to be freed from its public service ...

LONDON — U.K. commercial networks ITV and Five outlined their commitment to public service broadcasting Wednesday by publishing programming goals for 2003. ITV will spend at least half of its ...

LONDON –- U.K. watchdog the Competition Commission warned that ITV’s major shareholders Granada and Carlton could be forced to sell off both airtime sales houses before its proposed merger is approved ...

LONDON — U.K. watchdog the Office of Fair Trading announced Tuesday that it has referred the proposed £2.6 billion ($4 billion) merger of two major ITV shareholders, Granada and Carlton, to the ...

LONDON — The old showbiz adage that timing is everything will not be lost on Nigel Pickard. On Feb. 17 the former head of children’s BBC starts work at what is right now the most difficult job in ...

This article was updated at 5:52 p.m. LONDON — The British government confirmed Tuesday that it will wave through the £4 billion ($6.4 billion) merger of ITV’s largest shareholders, Carlton and ...