We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Investec PLC news every morning. Two companies holding regional ITV franchises have broadcast contrasting stories about their national ...

LONDON (Reuters) - ITV (ITV.L), Britain's biggest free-to-air commercial broadcaster, has agreed to buy the TV business of Northern Irish network partner UTV (UTV.L) for 100 million pounds in cash, it ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Ulster Television PLC news every morning. Fru Hazlitt yesterday resigned as chief executive of Virgin Radio, the national radio station ...

Northern Ireland’s UTV Media has been in discussions since August regarding a potential sale of its television assets to ITV. This morning, a deal between the two was confirmed with ITV paying £100M ...

A strong result in radio helped to offset poor television returns at UTV over the six months to the end of June, with pretax profits rising by 5 per cent to £8.5 million (€12.5 million). UTV's Irish ...

UTV is expected to be more acquisitive in the Irish market going forward following its purchase of Treaty Radio in Limerick for ?16m. While a UTV spokeswoman would not comment directly on UTV plans ...

A round up to the reaction of some of the UK’s biggest commercial radio stations to the latest Rajar figures for Q3 2011. Bauer increased its reach to 13.6m listeners across the UK, a growth of 2.3% ...

UTV has written to Ireland's local radio stations offering to provide a "national news service" when Independent News Networks (INN) winds up its operations at the end of the month. The offer was made ...

UTV is cautiously buoyant today after gaining conditional clearance to buy an FM radio station covering Co Louth and Co Meath, lifting its share of the Republic's commercial radio market to 15%. UTV ...

NORTHERN IRELAND media group UTV saw a 6 per cent increase in revenue in the 10 months to October of this year but a corresponding slump in television revenue over the same period. According to a ...

Now that UTV, a broadcasting and new media company in Belfast, is going to be acquired by ITV, STV will be the only remaining independent ITV regional broadcaster. The chief executive of ITV, which is ...

UTV Media has agreed to sell its television stations and brand to ITV for £100m. The media company has operated in Northern Ireland since 1959 when it became the first commercial television channel in ...