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Company Overview

Business Description

Sector
Communication Services
Industry
Media
Headquarters
United Kingdom UK
Employees
6 866
IPO date
Feb 2, 2004

ITV PLC is a British media company that sits between television audiences and the advertisers who want to reach them. It owns commercial TV channels and a streaming service, and it makes money mainly by selling advertising around its programs and charging for access to some of its content and services. Its core customers on the broadcast side are viewers, while its paying customers include advertisers and distribution partners.

ITV also runs a large TV production business called ITV Studios. This part of the company develops, makes, and sells scripted and unscripted shows to other broadcasters and streaming platforms around the world. In this business, ITV earns money by licensing shows, producing commissions, and selling finished programs rather than relying only on ads.

What makes ITV different is that it combines a consumer-facing broadcaster with a behind-the-scenes content supplier. That gives it two ways to make money: from owning channels that attract audiences, and from creating programs that other media companies want to buy. For beginners, the simplest way to think about ITV is as both a TV network and a TV content factory.

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Address
The London Televison Centre, Upper Ground, NaN
London
United Kingdom

Business Segments

Media and Entertainment

This is ITV’s UK broadcasting and streaming business. It runs the ITV television channels, its news and sports programming, and the ITVX streaming service, and it also sells advertising around that content.

Customers and revenue model

ITV Studios

This business makes TV shows and formats for ITV and for other broadcasters and streaming platforms in the UK and overseas. It produces scripted drama, entertainment, factual shows, and unscripted formats.

Customers and revenue model

Management

Ms. Carolyn J. McCall DBE

Chief Executive, Member of Management Board & Director

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Mr. Chris Kennedy

Group CFO, COO, Member of Management Board & Director

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Mr. Kevin Lygo

MD of Media & Entertainment and Member of Management Board

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Mr. Kelly Williams

MD of Commercial & Member of Management Board

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Mr. David Osborn

Chief People Officer & Member of Management Board

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Mr. Julian Bellamy

MD of ITV Studios & Member of Management Board

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Mr. Paul Moore

Group Communications & Corporate Affairs Director and Member of Management Board

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Mr. Magnus Brooke

Director of Strategy, Policy and Regulation & Member of Management Board

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Ms. Ade Rawcliffe

Group Director of Diversity & Inclusion and Member of Management Board

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Mr. Simon Farnsworth

CTO & Member of Management Board

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