LONDON — ITV companies Carlton and Granada agreed to a £2.6 billion merger ($4 billion) merger Wednesday, but they must pass a number of regulatory hurdles before the new company, ITV Plc., can be ...

LONDON — ITV giants Carlton and Granada plan to link up on programming and marketing in a bid to cut costs and woo advertisers and viewers. But the deal, unveiled Monday, falls short of a merger, due ...

LONDON — Winter is on its way in Blighty — but the green shoots of recovery are beginning to sprout in the country’s beleaguered commercial TV sector. The first signs came on Oct. 17 when Carlton and ...

LONDON — Blighty’s biggest commercial television groups Granada and Carlton — the two major stakeholders in the struggling ITV network — are once again in serious merger talks. The rivals told the ...

LONDON — ITV company Carlton Communications has posted a first-half loss of £178 million ($259 million), compared with a loss of $413 million for the same period last year, dragged down by its failed ...

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 to ...

LONDON — ITV shareholder Carlton Communications announced Tuesday a pre-tax loss of £156.2 million ($244 million) for the year ended Sept. 30, 2002, thanks to a $293 million hit from its now defunct ...

LONDON — Carlton Communications, one of the two big owners of the struggling ITV web, is reeling from the news that its highly regarded CEO Gerry Murphy may be about to ankle. Earlier this week Murphy ...

LONDON — ITV was once the undisputed powerhouse of British commercial television. Not anymore — and all the signs are that things will get worse before there is any chance of an upturn. The flagging ...