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ITV network companies Carlton and Granada are cutting the 300 million £ ($435 million) annual budget spent on driving up subscriptions and subsidizing set-top boxes for their digital terrestrial TV [...]

`Popstars' soars to Blighty ratings charts top LONDON The first big hit of the year on U.K. television is 'Popstars,' proving the reality format still has steam in the British [...]

U.K. Overseas TV rights to English Premier League soccer have been sold to a consortium of News Corp., France's Canal Plus, Trans World Intl. and sports marketing group Octagon for [...]

U.K. LONDON Granada Intl. has unveiled its new structure following the merger with Itel. Company, the result of Granada Media's acquisition of most of United News & Media's TV assets, [...]

Telefonica, now a U.S. force, is courting Yahoo! and AOL. WHEN TELEFONICA launched Terra U.S.A. in Miami last June, it threw a bash that cost a cool $1.5 million. The [...]

The merger of U.K. cable operators NTL and Cable & Wireless Communications has been approved by Britain's Competition Commission. Under the $13 billion deal, agreed to in July, NTL will [...]

LONDON British Sky Broadcasting has signed up 1.2 million digital subscribers, exceeding expectations and placing the satcaster well ahead of the pack in the U.K.'s white-hot digital TV market. Investment [...]

LONDON NTT's charismatic chief exec Barclay Knapp has emerged as the most likely figure to unify the UK's cable industry last week after he all but secured a $12.5 billion [...]

NTL has confirmed that it is in advanced talks that could lead to France Telecom taking a minority stake in the U.K. cabler, reportedly to fund a $12.4 billion bid [...]

LONDON -- U.K. indie Gruber Films and Thames Television have agreed to co-produce 'The Farmer Wants a Wife,' a feature based on the Thames documentary TV series of the same [...]

LONDON -- ITV Digital's administrators admitted they failed to find funding for the crippled pay service and put its assets up for sale Thursday. The news ends the world's first [...]

LONDON -- Investment bank Morgan Stanley has taken a 47.5% stake in V2, Virgin entrepreneur Richard Branson's indie record company, by converting £89 million ($128 million) in bonds into shares. [...]

LONDON -- Carlton Communications and Granada have put their jointly owned ailing paybox ITV Digital into administration in a bid to save it from bankruptcy. The move follows last-minute efforts [...]

LONDON 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' and 'Amelie' star Audrey Tautou are an unlikely pairing. But then the U.K.'s Celador has always been a tricky outfit to pin down. [...]

LONDON The government's plan to overhaul media ownership regulations may be too little, too late for No. 1 commercial web ITV, which has hit hard times. Move could pave the [...]

The ITV network has sealed a four-year deal for the U.K. broadcasting fights to the UEFA Champions League, featuring the top pan-European soccer clubs. No figures were given, but ITV's [...]

LONDON BSkyB is co-producing 'The Tenth Kingdom,' a 10-hour fantasy drama, with Hallmark Entertainment. The $40 million series, billed as an ''Alice in Wonderland' for grown-ups' and to be made [...]

LONDON BSkyB has come to the rescue of 'One Man and His Dog,' picking up the venerable TV series in the wake of a public outcry over the BBC's decision [...]

LONDON Edward Windsor, TV producer, takes pains to play the average guy. Besides having dropped his title for professional purposes, the Queen's youngest son is informal and accommodating in person, [...]