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	ITV Digital - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ITV Digital was a British terrestrial digital television broadcaster.
		It was subsequently rebranded as ITV Digital in July 2001.
		Ironically ITV Digital operated out of Marco Polo House, the south London building that had once housed the lavish headquarters of the ill-fated British Satellite Broadcasting.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ITV_Digital (992 words)

	IT-Director.com: ITV Digital heads to court
		ITV Digital though, in its wisdom as a start-up in a new technology area, thought it knew better and bought the lot.
		Since this happened of course ITV Digital has discovered that not enough people wanted to watch the football, so advertising revenues will not cover the costs of the purchase, and that it was actually a very bad idea.
		ITV Digital is said to have collapsed owing as much as £1.3 billion.
	www.it-director.com /article.php?id=2971 (493 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| ITV Digital goes broke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		ITV Digital chief executive Stuart Prebble said the company was approaching the process "in a very positive way" and intended to emerge from administration as a much stronger business with a long-term future.
		ITV Digital has swallowed £800m of investment, and required a further £300m to reach breakeven point, but was losing subscribers almost as quickly as it gained them.
		ITV Digital has said that Carlton and Granada are not liable for the payments, while Football League chairman Keith Harris has insisted the firms should honour the contract.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/1896732.stm (861 words)

	ITV Digital: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		ITV Digital used to be the sole British terrestrial digital television digital television quick summary:
		Itv plc is the company formed from the merger of carlton communications and granada plc, which began trading on 2 february 2004....
		Digital terrestrial television (dttv or dtt) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels (sdtv) and/or better...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/it/itv_digital2.htm (1291 words)

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		ITV Digital – launched by two of Britain’s most influential terrestrial broadcasters, Carlton and Granada – set out to challenge the might of Rupert Murdoch’s satellite-delivered Sky TV in the UK.
		The money that ITV Digital had counted on failed to materialise as media buyers were unlikely to put their reduced funding into a service which appeared unable to keep its viewers.
		ITV Digital’s claims that their channels were ‘quality’ compared to BSkyB’s offerings did not impress the public.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/broadcasting/91541 (542 words)

	ITV Digital to go into administration - ZDNet UK News
		Digital terrestrial broadcaster ITV Digital is to be put into administration on Wednesday after it made clear it could not meet payments to the Football League, industry sources have said.
		ITV Digital was formed by a merger between ITV and ONdigital, and was widely seen as a necessary response to dwindling set-top box sales.
		ITV Digital, owned by TV groups Granada and Carlton Communications, operates at a loss and had sought to cut the payments it owed to the Football League for the broadcasting rights to soccer matches.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /business/0,39020645,2107448,00.htm (489 words)

	BBC News \| BUSINESS \| ITV Digital woes bring football crisis
		ITV Digital was put into administration on Wednesday because it could no longer afford its multi-million pound contract with the Football League.
		To turn ITV Digital into a viable business, administrators need to cut costs - and the £178m outstanding on its football contract is an obvious target.
		ITV Digital has already axed 600 staff but said no decision had yet been made about the remaining 1,800 employees.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/1898021.stm (836 words)

	CNN.com - ITV Digital in administration - Mar. 27, 2002
		ITV Digital made the application to the High Court in London on Wednesday.
		The move was necessary after the league refused to accept ITV Digital's proposal of a cash cut of almost £130 million ($184 million) over two years -- a change to terms of a contract agreed in June 2000.
		ITV Digital which owes £178.5 million from an original three-year £315 million deal to broadcast their matches.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/03/27/itv.digital (403 words)

	ITV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		ITV contracts weren't permanent and the first franchise round was made in 1963 with new licenses commencing in 1964.
		ITV plc owns six additional television channels (five using the ITV brand), broadcasting on cable, satellite and digital terrestrial: ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, ITV Play, CITV Channel and Men and Motors.
		ITV news provider ITN and NTL launched the ITN News Channel in 2000, but later on sold it to Carlton and Granada who rebranded it as the ITV News Channel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ITV (1886 words)

	CNN.com - ITV Digital sets break-even target - July 19, 2001 Posted: 0939 GMT
		The digital terrestrial TV service, the world's first when it launched almost three years ago, said it was on target to break even during, or by the end of, the 2003/4 financial year.
		THERE'S GROWTH IN PUBS ITV Digital, which changed its name on July 11 to strengthen association with the ITV brand that runs popular UK shows such as Coronation Street, said it was signing up more than 400 pubs each week in the run-up to the new football season.
		ITV Digital is fighting with other providers such as cable groups Telewest Plc and NTL Inc as well as BSkyB for those who will make the switch.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/07/19/itv.reut (484 words)

	opta \| ITV Digital case study
		ITV Digital was subsequently awarded the primary multiplex licences to operate in December 1997 by the National Digital Licence Authority.
		ITV Digital made a bold decision to be the first to market with a full TV internet access proposition by the end of the year.
		The ITV Digital team was much larger than before, with approximately 30 people dedicated to the project, working together with six Opta staff.
	www.opta.com /who_we_serve_casestudies_media_03.htm (1176 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Football \| News \| League sues lawyers over ITV Digital deal
		After ITV Digital collapsed in 2002, the league sued Carlton and Granada in an attempt to recoup the £132m broadcast fees it said it was owed.
		ITV Digital's collapse ended up costing Carlton and Granada more than £1bn and left a deep scar on the companies' reputation in the City, even after their merger into a single ITV plc two years ago.
		When in early 2002 ITV Digital faced collapse unless it slashed its budget, it warned the league that it needed to reduce its payments, but the football authority refused to budge.
	football.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/0,,1705177,00.html?gusrc=rss (495 words)

	ITV Enters Digital Age
		ITV Director Doug Lichvar with the converters that digitize the ITV signal.
		ITV is working with a number of departments outside engineering to offer programming on the new channels.
		Since the system is, like cable, individually "addressable," ITV will be able to offer individuals the ability to attend their televised lectures at home, on their own tv's.
	www.usc.edu /uscnews/stories/2081.html (835 words)

	BECTU News - ITV Digital has duty to staff
		Responding to the announcement that ITV Digital will cease its pay-TV transmissions from midnight on April 30, BECTU has called for parent companies Carlton and Granada to underwrite notice and severance payments for its 1300 staff.
		BECTU has been campaigning for ITV companies to fulfill the commitments in their licences to the production of regional programmes, and has also expressed worries that the ITV digital collapse will lead to significant job losses outside London, in cities which have already seen job losses due to earlier ITV cutbacks.
		ITV Digital's three digital mulitplex licences have been returned to the ITC, which plans to advertise them to potential new operators from May 1.
	www.bectu.org.uk /news/ib/ni0102.html (461 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Digital broadcasting - ITV buoyed by digital growth as viewers desert flagship channel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		ITV will this week try to deflect attention from the poor performance of its main channel by highlighting progress made in its ever-burgeoning roster of digital stations.
		ITV controls more than half of the British TV advertising market and its comments on the state of the market are keenly watched.
		ITV, which was created from the merger of Carlton and Granada in February 2004, has enjoyed mixed fortunes on the stock market.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=280&id=1886562005 (861 words)

	CNN.com - ITV Digital prepares for sale - April 15, 2002
		ITV Digital, the loss-making pay-television service jointly owned by Granada (GAA) and Carlton Communications [CCM], filed for protection from its creditors after saying it could not afford to pay the £178.5 million ($256 million) it owes to the league.
		The Football League rejected ITV Digital's £60 million offer to settle the dispute but is considering another proposal.
		A failure to reach a deal could lead to the defection of ITV Digital's 1.26 million subscribers to rival British Sky Broadcasting (BSY), which is 37 percent owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/04/15/itv.digital.reprieve (390 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Business \| \| ITV and BBC take on Sky with Freesat launch
		ITV and the BBC are to launch a free digital satellite service in a long-anticipated move to take on market-leading pay-TV company BSkyB.
		ITV also announced today a new mobile service allowing users to access footage of favourite shows as well as a broadband trial in Sussex.
		ITV said the advertising market was improving in the third quarter of the year, and it expected total advertising spending to increase by 4.3%.
	business.guardian.co.uk /story/0,3604,1564350,00.html (669 words)

	CNN.com - BBC wins ex-ITV Digital licences - July 4, 2002
		The two broadcasters and transmitter company Crown Castle (CCI) made a joint bid after ITV Digital collapsed at the beginning of the year.
		The new consortium, which beat a competing bid from ITV partners -- Carlton Communications (CCM) and Granada (GAA) -- and state-owned commercial broadcaster Channel 4, has promised to provide 24 digital free-to-view channels available via an existing aerial and set-top box costing £100.
		Viewers who still have ITV Digital set-top boxes will be able to access the new channels, an ITC spokesman said.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/BUSINESS/07/04/digital.license (692 words)

	ITV Digital assets up for auction - News - UK - Brief Article ERT Weekly - FindArticles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		THE administrators for ITV Digital are to hold an auction of the collapsed broadcaster's assets.
		Among items on the list of lots are three fully redundant digital terrestrial TV multi-plexors and compression suites, its conditional access platform (sized for two million customers), mirrored disaster recovery suite, full test, presentation and edit suites and other equipment used to broadcast ITV Digital.
		The demise of the digital terrestrial broadcaster is expected to have had a major effect on Sky's viewing figures.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KZC/is_2002_August_1/ai_90532727 (387 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| ITV Digital staggers towards collapse
		ITV Digital's woes had echoes of the demise of British Satellite Broadcasting, the government-backed satellite television service that was forced to merge with Sky in 1990 after failing to compete with the Murdoch-backed business.
		Last night ITV Digital maintained it was "business as usual" for subscribers, and said it was hopeful of thrashing out a long-term survival plan.
		ITV Digital's owners, Carlton and Granada, pledged to continue funding the loss-making business, which has swallowed up £800m since it was launched in 1998, for the next fortnight.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,675280,00.html (925 words)

	Interactive Digital Television Services for People with Low Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-05)
		Digital is thought to be beneficial over analogue because data can be replicated almost perfectly, producing a clearer signal which creates better pictures and sounds.
		Freeman and Lessiter (2001) report that some of their respondents thought iTV was expensive and did not or would not improve their quality of life.
		A subset of those who can not access iTV, includes people who have digital television, but are restricted in their access because the usability of the system does not correspond to their needs so only some of the features are accessible.
	www.tiresias.org /itv/itv1.htm (6120 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/ITV
		The ITV companies were required by the terms of their licences from the ITA to provide a local television service for their particular region, including a daily local news bulletin and regular local documentaries.
		However, no company lost its position as the local ITV contractor for their region and all licences were extended for another three years (starting July 1964), although several companies took the opportunity relaunch their on-screen identities and change business names and shareholdings.
		The purpose of this review was to ensure the ITV system was ready for the arrival of colour broadcasting in 1969 and also to again allow for the potential start of ITV2, should the Conservatives win any election held after 1970.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/ITV (3400 words)

	BSkyB extends olive branch to ITV over digital rivalry Independent, The (London) - FindArticles
		GRANADA AND Carlton Communications, the co-owners of ITV Digital, the digital terrestrial television system, and satellite rival BSkyB are considering terms on which to hold talks about closer co- operation, industry sources said yesterday.
		A wide-ranging digital settlement would also be likely to set terms for ITV's channels to be distributed over BSkyB's digital platform, while perhaps reserving space on the digital terrestrial network for a future Sky general entertainment channel.
		Both ITV companies are pressuring the government for more frequency to expand ITV Digital's footprint beyond the 50 per cent of the country that can currently access its signal.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20011001/ai_n14421309 (438 words)

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