{"id":248310,"date":"2025-11-07T00:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248310\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T00:08:10","slug":"sky-owner-comcast-in-talks-to-buy-itvs-broadcasting-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/248310\/","title":{"rendered":"Sky Owner Comcast in Talks to Buy ITV\u2019s Broadcasting Arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/CMCSA:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Comcast Corp.<\/a>, owner of the Sky pay-television business in Europe, is in talks to acquire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/ITV:LN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">ITV Plc<\/a>\u2019s media and entertainment unit in a deal that would dramatically shake up the UK broadcasting landscape, people with knowledge of the matter said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Philadelphia-based Comcast is holding discussions on a potential purchase of the ITV division, which runs its commercial free-to-air TV channel operations in the UK as well as the ITVX streaming platform, the people said. A transaction could value the business at around $2 billion, they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Comcast Corp., owner of the Sky pay-television business in Europe, is in talks to acquire ITV Plc\u2019s media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5544,84,103691,979,591,103694,59,103690,388,103693,5829,103692,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-248310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-advertising","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-comcast-corp-class-a","11":"tag-deals","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-evercore-inc-a","14":"tag-gb","15":"tag-itv-plc","16":"tag-london","17":"tag-media-and-entertainment","18":"tag-morgan-stanley","19":"tag-sky-deutschland-ag","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}