LONDON -- GMTV, the ITV morning commercial broadcaster that is 25% owned by the Walt Disney Co., might have been responsible for premium phone line irregularities worth as much as £40 million. By Mimi ...
ITV executives are reportedly thinking about changing the name of GMTV. According to The Sun, the breakfast show could be renamed ITV Day as part of its ongoing revamp. Executives are also considering ...
LONDON — GMTV, the U.K. breakfast TV station part-owned by Disney, is the latest Brit broadcaster to be accused of ripping off audiences in a premium-rate phone scam, this one to the tune of £ 10 ...
LONDON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - British media regulator Ofcom has fined morning TV programme GMTV 2 million pounds ($4.03 million) for letting viewers enter competitions they had no chance of winning, the ...
ITV has increased its stake in breakfast producer GMTV by agreeing to buy out SMG for £31m. The deal gives ITV an extra 25% share of the business - adding to the 50% it already held due to Carlton and ...
LONDON: ITV has acquired the remaining 25-percent stake in GMTV from The Walt Disney Company, giving it full ownership in the breakfast-time channel. ITV, which had already owned a 75-percent share, ...
LONDON — U.K. breakfast web GMTV is confronting a record fine of some $5.6 million over rigged phone quizzes on its shows. GMTV, owned by ITV and Disney in a 75/25 split, took an estimated $90 million ...
LONDON — Walt Disney is mulling the sale of its 25% stake in Blighty’s only commercial breakfast TV station, GMTV, to majority shareholder ITV. On Tuesday Disney and ITV, formed three months ago from ...
LONDON -- U.K. media regulator Ofcom has fined commercial broadcaster GMTV a record £2 million ($4 million) for what it calls "widespread and systematic deception" in premium-rate phone-in ...
LONDON — The merger of ITV could trigger an investment restructuring at Blighty’s biggest breakfast station, GMTV, in which ITV shareholders Carlton and Granada jointly own a 50% stake. Walt Disney ...
GMTV, the ITV breakfast station in which Disney owns a 25% stake, has been fined £2 million ($4 million) by U.K. media regulator Ofcom for “widespread and systematic deception” in phone-in quizzes.